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…
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…
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…
History is in the syllabus of Nigerian schools. I can tell you that it’s there just for the sake of history! Hardly is it studied by pupils!Hardly are there teachers for it!!Hardly is it recommended as a course to study in tertiary institutions!!! Unfortunately for us, we might never succeed in charting our way forward…
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…
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…
Photo credit: BBC A Nigerian Imam who gained international attention fr saving 262 Christians during an outbreak of violence has died at the age of 90. The man, AbubakaAbdullahi, had been suffering from a heart condition and was being treated in a hospital. Unfortunately, he died last Thursday. The year was 2018, and Abdullahi had…
