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The world goes into “water bankruptcy”!

Photo credit: Instagram “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. The world has entered an era of global “water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. CNN reports that water waste problems afflict regions worldwide: Kabul may be on course to become…

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Chickmen – Adewale Sobowale

Kindly pardon my use of words. I’m not unnecessarily using poetic license. However, when certain things keep making senseless recurs, I’m always at a loss on how to describe them. Some people have said that some anjonu bring those words, anjonu meaning spirits. Of course, not those that a former presidential aide says are permanent…

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Baby Kingsway! – Adewale Sobowale

When I was younger, I was used to a person who was slow in running errands being described as, ‘baby kingsway’. At least, up to the early eighties there used to be some merchantile stores in the major city centres of Nigeria. Some of them were Kingsway, Leventis, Chellarams, Chanrai, etc. Most of them used…

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Frigid temperatures expected in Toronto!

Photo credit: CBC Environment Canada forecasts the temperature in Toronto this week will be significantly cold, with temperatures expected to drop to -15 C at times. The freezing temperatures come after a snowstorm walloped Toronto last week, resulting in the Don Valley Parkway and Finch West LRT temporarily shutting down, as well as schools and buses being…

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US sends military aircraft to Greenland!

Photo credit: The Guardian The United States has deployed a North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) aircraft to Greenland as tensions rise over President Donald Trump’s move to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory. The Week reports that NORAD said the aircraft would soon arrive at Pituffik Space Base to support a range of long-planned activities. The…

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