Photo credit: DW African health authorities say they would start using a vaccine for the prior Zaire ebolavirus strain to treat the current outbreak involving a different, fast-spreading strain known as Bundibugyo. The ongoing outbreak is centred in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DW Canada reports that the director general of the African Centres for…
I just heard the saying, ‘e pepper for mouth’ from the streets. I am not an ‘area boy’, neither am I an ‘area father’. Indeed, the only celebrated area father I know is C. Boy! However, I always say I am streetwise. But something happened to me in 1999 that put my so-called street wisdom…
I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you like. In my active…
Photo credit: CBC The federal government is pledging $2.7 billion over three years to build more than 18 housing projects across the city of Toronto, Prime Minister Mzark Carney announced Wednesday. CBC reports that the partnership between the government of Canada and the city of Toronto inclides 5,600 rental homes, 1,800 of which will be “deeply affordable,” supportive or rent-controlled,…
Iran said Wednesday it is in the “final stage”: of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and US President Donald Trump has said a deal could be announced this week. Asia One reports it could potentially reopen the critical waterway, ease pressure in the world economy and help bring an end to the war. But…
Photo credit: NBC News Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support, the UN World Food Program said Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that Afghanistan continues to recover from decades of conflict and upheaval, including the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in 2021 as the…
The killings of the unfortunate church goers in Anambra state wasn’t a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise given the state of insecurity that, rather than be exceptional, is now the norm in this country. To the doubting Thomases, may I remind them of the boko haram problem which has become, more or less,…
