I made an innocent post yesterday imploring Nigerians not to engage in any undemocratic activity. I didn’t know some Àwọnlókàns who happen to be my FB friends read it. Today, when they felt their candidate had won, they descended on me with banters! The lesson of that is we shouldn’t trade friendship for politics. True…
Photo credit: Bloomberg The leader of Canada’s most populous province said Monday “the walls are closing in” on President Donald Trump after the US Supreme Court struck down many of Trump’s tariffs and said he’s also looking forward to the US midterm elections in November which could further constrain Trump. AP reports that Ontario Premier Doug…
Photo credit: Telegraph Herald More than a month after US forces removed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from power, and amid a tighter US embargo on Cuba and heightened boat strikes in the region, Caribbean leaders are preparing to meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week. Miami Herald reports that Rubio is scheduled…
Photo credit: Facebook Firefighters were battling a fire outbreak at Terminal 1 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. The Whistler reports that the cause of the fire had yet to be ascertained as of the time of the report. Thick smoke was seen billowing from the terminal building. The Punch reports that…
Photo credit: BBC Is it not ridiculous that we could sum up the Ekiti election as a battleof bags. Yes, I mean bags of rice! Is it not an evidence that our people are hungry? No matter the kilometres of expressway you construct, no matter the number of skyscrapers you build, if you fail to…
Photo credit: VOA I learnt some innocent citizens lost their lives in the election process! Could you imagine the fact that most of those people were defenceless citizens going about doing what they were supposed to do? Yeah, they were either doing electoral duties or trying to perform their civic responsibilities. Mention must be made…
There are so many Yoruba words which meaning I really do not know. Unfortunately for me, I was too yangaish to learn their meaning at the right time. One of the words is ‘so’. I know it’s a creature but I don’t know which type it is. All I know is that if the Yoruba…
