I posted something about kites sometime last week. That was a stillborn kite. There is another kite being contemplated that might turn out to be positive. It is all about tennis. Lawn tennis! There has been a lot of discussions and arguments over the male/ female superiority in lawn tennis. While some are feeling there…
Photo credit: SACBC Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticized remarks by conservative Catholic Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who called migration to Europe an “invasion”, saying such language dehumanizes people fleeing conflict and hardship. Borkena reports that in a social media post, Tedros said he read the bishop’s remarks “with a heavy heart,” arguing that calling human beings “invaders” takes away their “faces,…
Photo credit: Vatican News Working with humanity and welcoming everyone who crosses the Mediterranean: These are principles guiding the Italian Red Cross, which officially took over the management of the Contrada Imbriacola hotspot in Lampedusa on 1 June 2023. Since then, more than 182,000 migrants have passed through the centre after crossings that are often fatal. It remains the…
Photo credit: STV News Working with humanity and welcoming everyone who crosses the Mediterranean: These are principles guiding the Italian Red Cross, which officially took over the management of the Contrada Imbriacola hotspot in Lampedusa on 1 June 2023. Since then, more than 182,000 migrants have passed through the centre after crossings that are often fatal. It remains the…
Some months ago, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) turned 50 and people wanted to set the internet ablaze with their experience. Some went on to dust their service year pictures and were displaying them on social media. For those of us who never had an opportunity to serve as Youth Corp members, it was…
The senator who, I don’t want to dignify by mentioning his name, assaulted a woman has come out with some defence. According to him, his younger sister was beaten to a pulp earlier in that shop. Hear, hear! He even said that incident happened before he became a senator. It’s one thing to act and…
I was gisting with a pastor of one of the popular Pentecostal churches yesterday, and I was surprised with how little he knows about the most basic of things. For instance, he did not know the procedure of Islamic banking. That is, the bank does not discriminate on religious basis. I actually had to tell…
