Photo credit: CBC Environment Canada forecasts the temperature in Toronto this week will be significantly cold, with temperatures expected to drop to -15 C at times. The freezing temperatures come after a snowstorm walloped Toronto last week, resulting in the Don Valley Parkway and Finch West LRT temporarily shutting down, as well as schools and buses being…
Photo credit: The Guardian The United States has deployed a North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) aircraft to Greenland as tensions rise over President Donald Trump’s move to acquire the semi-autonomous Danish territory. The Week reports that NORAD said the aircraft would soon arrive at Pituffik Space Base to support a range of long-planned activities. The…
Photo credit: BBC A Nigerian Imam who gained international attention fr saving 262 Christians during an outbreak of violence has died at the age of 90. The man, AbubakaAbdullahi, had been suffering from a heart condition and was being treated in a hospital. Unfortunately, he died last Thursday. The year was 2018, and Abdullahi had…
Photo credit: CNN Let me ask the question again, are Africans alright? Two special events are taking place this week. Or, should take place this week. They are special because they involve the lives of people. One of them involves the life of everybody in the world. The first is the inauguration of Mr Trump…
I want to learn the relevance of Chatham House to the Nigerian situation. Does going there reduce the price of a kongo of gari? Does it supply electric power? Does it bring down the price of oyel? Does it give residential accomodation to the teeming masses? Does it provide jobs for the unemployed or underemployed?…
Like you must have seen in the resulting posts, I was in Lagos on Thursday to source for free books from donors. I don’t want to belabour you with the details. I believe they could be found in a previous post. All the three people that I met on that day did me a great…
Photo credit: TVC News That Nigeria is not yet a federation has never been in doubt. The fact has been made much more apparent by the South West- sponsored Operation Amotekun. For a nation to be considered as a federation, certain hurdles should have been crossed. The first is that the federating states should come…
