Photo credit: France 24 Riots have erupted in the northeast English city of Sunderland amid a string of anti-immigrant protests after the killing of three children at a dance class earlier in the week. Aljazeera reports that officers faced “serious and sustained levels of violence” after hundreds of people rampaged into the city’ centre. They…
Photo credit: the Punch Newspaper A Nigerian family of four has been ordered to leave Canada by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Report Afrique reports that Lola Akinlade used to work as a medical sales representative at a pharmaceutical company in Lagos, Nigeria. There, she met a man who claimed to be an immigration…
Photo credit: CBC News The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated $2 million (Cad) to Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank. This is a great relief, as one in ten Torontonians relies on food banks. DBFB chief executive officer Neil Hetherington said, “Two million dollars—that means some two million meals out to the…
Photo credit: Premium Times When the Nigerian musician, Adekunle Gold dropped an album in June 2016 titled Gold, I doubt if he knew he was indirectly speaking with our houses of religion. He spoke to them in the track titled, ARIWO Ko Ni Music. The noise made by churches and mosques with loudspeakers mounted outside…
Photo credit: Thisdaylive The debate about greetings in Nigeria, like most other things in the country has generated some interesting proportions. This is even most common amongst my folks, the Yoruba. They have greetings for virtually every occasion whether traditional or modern. It is believed that it’s because they are a very courteous people. Yeah,…
Photo credit: felakuti.com I did a post on Abami Eda two days ago to mark the twenty first anniversary of the great musician’s death. As would be expected of a post in the social media, the story was not so extensive, not because I didn’t have the materials, but from experience, people do not normally…
Photo credit: Premium Times I just felt I should apologize to Mr Muhammad Buhari that I made a grave mistake of describing him, in a recent post, that he’s not a patriot. That’s not true! The fact remains that he’s neither a patriot of the Nigerian state nor of the Hausa nation. He’s obviously a…
