Multiple people were injured and carried out on stretchers after a “stampede” at a family-friendly festival in north London as too many people turned up. Daily Mail reports that the organizers of Ghana Party in the Park were forced to end the event “abruptly” at Copthall Playing Fields in Barnet on Saturday after it became “overcrowded”. …
Eating bananas daily boosts your energy, improves digestion, supports heart health, and regulates blood sugar levels due to their carbohydrate and fibre content. They also provide nutrients like potassium and antioxidants, which promote heart health and strengthen immunity. Verywell Health reports that: !) Banana increases energy. Carbohydrates are your body’s main energy source. Bananas, rich in carbohydrates and B…
(for Virgil) There are things I don’t tell anyone. I blamed the sunlight Secrets I keep to myself I was young once Ezra Pound’s Alba tell the truth. I go down to the sea There are things to forget I found a kind, my kind A temple that I could worship, destination paradise We’re somewhere…
After birth, what did she feel?I think Diane Arbus just took pictures of herselfHer own alienationDid she ever experience isolation?Loneliness, yes, loneliness?Did it devour herlike it devours me?What did she hunger for?What did she want to leave behind?As a woman, was she ever really loved by a man?Was the strange hypnotic beauty that she found…
You lie You cheat There are maps of open sores on your face that refuse to heal They’re as red as an ambulance They’re like a pot of rice left too long on the stove that threatens to boil over And then boils over Your wounds, brother, have become my own I encourage you I…
When the Nigerian musician, Adekunle Gold dropped an album in June 2016 titled Gold, I doubt if he knew he was indirectly speaking with our houses of religion. He spoke to them in the track titled, ARIWO Ko Ni Music. The noise made by churches and mosques with loudspeakers mounted outside their respective places of…
The debate about greetings in Nigeria, like most other things in the country has generated some interesting proportions. This is even most common amongst my folks, the Yoruba. They have greetings for virtually every occasion whether traditional or modern. It is believed that it’s because they are a very courteous people. Yeah, on the first…
