Photo credit: CBC The federal government is pledging $2.7 billion over three years to build more than 18 housing projects across the city of Toronto, Prime Minister Mzark Carney announced Wednesday. CBC reports that the partnership between the government of Canada and the city of Toronto inclides 5,600 rental homes, 1,800 of which will be “deeply affordable,” supportive or rent-controlled,…
Iran said Wednesday it is in the “final stage”: of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and US President Donald Trump has said a deal could be announced this week. Asia One reports it could potentially reopen the critical waterway, ease pressure in the world economy and help bring an end to the war. But…
Photo credit: NBC News Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support, the UN World Food Program said Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that Afghanistan continues to recover from decades of conflict and upheaval, including the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in 2021 as the…
The killings of the unfortunate church goers in Anambra state wasn’t a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise given the state of insecurity that, rather than be exceptional, is now the norm in this country. To the doubting Thomases, may I remind them of the boko haram problem which has become, more or less,…
He was quite worried. If you had known him, you would have known that it was quite unusual for him to be bothered by anything. He used to be a very happy guy. He didn’t have anything to worry about. Who would, if you had inherited a cache of money that even your grandchildren couldn’t…
I once said, ordinarily, people would think Lagos politics is so advanced that Lagosians can’t just be cowed by any wannabe. Yeah, this may be true! But I’m afraid if not irritated to admit the fact that Lagosians themselves are generally wannabes serving a life sentence under Bourdillon. I understand it’s as bad as if…
As today’s a Sunday, without being churchy I can answer Nathaniel’s question when he asked in John 1:45, if anything good could come out of Nazareth that good things are coming out of the Nigerian senate. And indeed, I can go on and quote another passage which says, “…the stone rejected by you the builders,…
