Strength! – Adewale Sobowale

At times like this when we see people who have turned something that could have been embarrassing into an act of strength or courage we should sound the cymbals in their praise. I wouldn’t know where a blackmailer got the Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni’s nude photographs from. The fact is that the person contacted her…

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Is it a Curse? – Adewale Sobowale

Why is it that only a few Nigerian statesmen are getting it right? I just watched the API-organized ‘The Rush to Canada’ by Nigerians. The most pathetic thing was when one Dr Bassey, who represented Abike Dabiri, implied that if people in the northwest of Nigeria were not running away from the country – rather…

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Ford, Carney promise to spend $8.8B to spur housing builds in Ontario

Photo credit: CBC Ontario and Ottawa will spend billions to help cut municipal housing development charges in an effort to spur new builds across the province. Prime  Minister Mark Carney and Premier Doug Ford announced Monday. RCI reports that the federal and provincial governments will each spend $4.4 billion on housing-related infrastructure over the next 10 years. Carney announced…

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Unemployment rises for people with bipolar in the UK

Photo credit: MSN New Data, released to mark World Bipolar Day (March 30th), suggests unemployment among people with the mental health condition has more than doubled in a decade. Metro reports that Charity Bipolar UN analyzed data from NHS England Digital’s latest Adult Psychiatrist Morbidity Survey (APMS) to uncover how the current system is failing to…

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