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Photo credit: ReNew Canada The federal government of Canada has announced plans to assist Toronto with hundreds of millions of dollars to buy new subway trains for its aging fleet. BurlintonToday reports that Ontario and the City of Toronto each committed $758 million a year ago so the Toronto Transit Corporation could buy 55 new trains…
Photo credit: VOA Rebel forces in Syria have taken control of several neighbourhoods of the country’s largest city, Aleppo. BBC reports that as of Friday morning, rebels controlled more than half of the city. The move is the biggest offensive against the Syrian government in years and the first time rebels fighting the forces of…
Photo credit: Premium Times It’s getting apparent more and more, everyday, that Nigeria doesn’t have a head. It’s not clear if it does even have a tail. The reason is not far fetched. The goings on in that country could be termed to be the Hobbesian state of nature. How can there be a head…
Photo credit: Daily Post Nigeria claims to be a democratic country. Note my word, ‘claims’. Isn’t it in Nigeria that we have prisoners, even despite court orders setting them free? We have people like Sambo Dasuki, Ibrahim Zakzaky, Omoyele Sowore, and others currently languishing in various detention rooms across the nation. The silly department in…
Photo credit: Tatler I belong to a Facebook group that had a party last year. The party was successful in various ways, so the group decided to hold another one in December. Well, people should celebrate! But one thing that makes me silly is that some of their acquaintances were talking of gatecrashing. I used…
Photo credit: iStock One thing that keeps astounding me is the regularity at which seasons move in circles. In spite of the so called global warming, the seasons do not fail us. In the tropics, we have the harmattan, dry and rainy seasons. In the western world there are the winter, summer, spring and autumn…
Photo credit: The Cable I am one of those who believe that a president’s job is one of the easiest. He is just there to supervise the work of his appointees. So, I don’t see the big deal in a president’s job. I also believe anybody, with a little bit of sense,should be able to…
