Vote buying. Credit: the Punch May I use this opportunity to congratulate the ever hopeful people of Ogun State on the occasion of their harvesting their own rights from political spendthrifts? This is election season and politicians are busy outspending each other. Pray, what are they spending on? All those things they ought to have…
Photo credit: Dreams time O ba f’okun we’ri o! Even if you’re alone;You can’t be lone –ly! Depending on you;‘N’ what believes you! K’o tun f’osa w’ese! There I feel deserted;If not perverted;On a lonely island;In a no man’s land! Eni Jesu we lo mo! To pack it inside;Exception is suicide;But to run away-Land with…
Hardly does any sane person need a clairvoyant to know things would turn out this way. The unfortunate thing is the fact that some of us warned against putting that murderer in Aso Rock. But then, it’s like our own ears are even ‘deafer’ than the man’s. We didn’t warn without evidence. We warned based…
Photo credit: Reuters As ministers and central bank governors from around the world gather in Washington alongside thinktank and charity bosses to discuss the state of the global economy and its ability to generate a higher standard of living, debt, and why governments need to reduce it, will top the agenda at this week’s annual meetings of…
Photo credit: Amnesty International Migrant workers at Carrefour sites, in Saudi Arabia, are exploited and forced to live in squalour. According to a report be Amnesty International UK, workers from Nepal, India and Pakistan are made to work 16-hour days and threatened with costly lay-offs if they refused to work overtime. One of the workers…
Photo credit; the Guardian The University of Toronto environment school says it will financially dissociate from fossil fuel companies. The Guardian reports that the institution has committed to stop taking funds from the sector for research, sponsorships, scholarships or infrastructure such as buildings. It is also going to stop collaborating with te industry on events and school initiatives, cease…
Yeah, if people will choose to remember there will always be a tomorrow, our world might be a bed of roses. But then, there’s no gainsaying the fact that man is the most gifted of all animals. However, he conveniently chooses to forget the gifts when it suits him. There was once a man who…
