Count Your Blessings! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: iStock The song I like most is, ‘Count your blessings’. While Canada celebrated ‘thanksgiving’ on October 11, the Americans are celebrating theirs today. Hmm… Those are great countries where the rule of law is assumed. I agree there are some breaches. But such breaches are addressed eventually. Well, I think the so-called developing…

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Grateful Heart! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Shutterstock I was more than humbled today! Normally, I don’t obey the order of sleeping for eight hours at a go. Why should I? Apart from writing, reading and socialising, other things might crop up. Besides, I don’t like being held up in a straitjacket! I woke up at 2 a.m. this morning…

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Argentine embassy sorrounded by Venezuelan security forces!

Photo credit: BBC Armed and hooded members of the Venezuelan security forces have surrounded Argentina’s embassy in Caracas, according to the country’s opposition. CNN reports that six opposition members are currently taking refuge in the embassy. They fled there to escape a crackdown by Venezuelan authorities in the run-up to July’s presidential elections. Pedro Urruchurtu, who…

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Ukraine has lost 40% of Kursk!

Photo credit: CNA Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counterassaults, according to a senior Ukrainian military source. Reuters reports that the source said Russia had deployed 59,000 troops to the Kursk region since…

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Sparing Thoughts! – Adewale Sobowale

It’s going to be Christmas in a few weeks. And, of course, the preparations for the not-for-only-Christian festival are building up. It will reach a crescendo at twenty-something in December! However, a thought just occurred to me: Are we thinking of the other man? I don’t mean our relatives. Many people are facing one problem…

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