Abeegi! – Adewale Sobowale

How can a presidential aspirant go to a state, and, instead of presenting his manifesto, he started citing what I will refer to as irrelevancies? His reference to the Pope might have been seen as blasphemy in Northern Nigeria. To make matters worse, he even referred to a sitting governor as “eleyi” – “this one”….

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Suegbe vs Rare! – Adewale Sobowale

A Suegbe, in this context, is defined as original as they could come while a Rare is a starstruck wannabe! The former doesn’t need validation from anyone because they’re natural. Therefore, they could survive anywhere without a change in their personality. I’m proud to be a Suegbe! Meanwhile, a Rare could be described as the…

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A new resident is landing in Australia every 59 seconds

Photo credit: x..com Australia’s population has  now ticked over 28 million after the Albanese government exceeded its net overseas migration numbers. Daily Mail reports that data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed on Tuesday the nation’s population was estimated at 28,000,212 at the time of publication. https://youtube.com/shorts/yw7kTIXKN2U?si=I3ZBw0HoDGGtJePR35 seconds. The population clock is based on a…

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Congolese Montrealers have plans upended by Canada’s Ebola travel restrictions

Photo credit: Citynews Montreal An international student from the Democratic Republic of Congo says she was blocked from returning to Montreal because of Ebola-related travel restrictions – despite the fact she hasn’t visited her home country in almost a year. The Associated Press reports that Merdie Sanga was vacating in France when she received a letter…

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Success! – Adewale Sobowale

I’m sitting here and remembering how Mr Dalung, Nigerian sports minister and Mrs Yetunde Onanuga travelled to watch Anthony Joshua’s demolition of Takam in the tenth round. They did not fail to relay a message of how the government and people of Nigeria were proud of AJ. When the heavyweight boxer visited Nigeria, the then…

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