World’s most climate-resilient island
Photo credit: BBC A Caribbean nation plans to become the world’s most resilient climate-resilient island without accruing massive debt or waiting for promised aid from wealthier countries. NDTV WORLD reports that Domonica, in a bid to rebuild and thrive after Hurricane Maria’s devastation seven years ago, has turned to an unconventional source—selling passports. By offering…
B’omode O J’obi! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Guardian A video is currently going viral of a Nigerian politician. The video made by the BBC (Yoruba) is of a Nigerian female politician who recently won elections in the UK. In the video, the chubby cheeked woman is saying, there was no spending of money before she was elected. In other…
Different Strokes! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Nation Nigeria’s 61st independence anniversary has come and gone. However, so many thoughts reverberated during the period. One is some people are saying Nigeria is not good, yet others are making it. I just wanted to ask, what’s the percentage of people that are making it? Apart from that, should it be…
Much ado about “nonsense”! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Nigeria Constitution Did you know that most countries do not require educational certificates to be elected for any political post? What most countries require are citizenship, having lived in the country for a certain number of years and a specific age. Nigeria’s requirement for educational certificates might be a fallout from our colonial…
Toronto hospital launches supportive housing for the homeless!
Photo credit: the Globe and Mail In what’s believed to be a first in Canada, Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) is partnering with Fred Victor, a non-profit housing organization, to provide fifty-one permanent homes with health and social supports to homeless people who use its hospitals the most. CBC reports that the new housing project…
Asylum seekers in Ireland cleared by police!
Photo credit: the Guardian Twenty asylum seekers with tents, some of whom arrived in Ireland on Thursday, were cleared from the Grand Canal in Dublin on the same day. The Irish Times reports that several gardai were at the site shortly before 10 pm after receiving reports of trespassing from Waterways Ireland security staff who…