Recent activities have set me thinking! I mean the activities about the ownership of Lagos. That Lagos is a Yoruba city is not disputed. Those Yoruba from other states who are ready to do battle much more than the original omo Ekos should read the statement of Alhaji Femi Okunnu titled “Gedegbe l’Eko wa.” In…
Photo credit: Reuters Angered by repeated strikes on their soil and wary of Tehran further tightening its grip over the critical Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are on the verge of a decision to join the US-Israel war against Iran, After weeks of hedging and warning against escalation, Gulf countries such as…
Photo credit: Montreal Gazette The Toronto Sun reports that for Sikh teacher Amrit Kaur, removing her turban to enter a classroom would be like walking naked and “abandoning who she is as a person,” her lawyers told the Supreme Court of Canada as it began hearing a landmark challenge to Quebec’s secularism law. A Sikh organization,…
Photo credit: the scroll As gas shortages push up the cost of living in the cities, migrant workers are unable to decide whether to stay on or go home. Scroll.in reports that last week, Amazon India reported a surge in sales of ready-to-eat meals on its e-commerce platforms. A salesperson attributed it to customers “relying…
This will make it the third time that I will be writing on what has perhaps, and sadly too, become a trending issue in our society now. Suicide! I decided to write again because some sections of our society are sadistically finding it funny. They are wondering why other people are now copycatting that unfortunate…
Many of us have heard the word chutzpah used in terms of a person having positive audacity. But I bet only a few realize it could be used to describe people who display negative audacity. There are some positions which are normally reserved for the elderly. Senior citizens are often expected to have experienced the…
Mmm… So, Mr Kyari, Buhari’s chief of staff, has tested positive to coronavirus. But that’s not as newsworthy as the fact that he’s been taken to Lagos for treatment. The Aso Clinic on which so much has been spent doesn’t have the required materials. I doubt if the clinic even has bandages for first aid….
