Photo credit: Facebook When I left Nigeria in 2018, the only book I took with me was “You Must Set Forth at Dawn,” by Wole Soyinka. Incidentally, I bought the book at the OOPL Abeokuta for a sum that set me back by some thousands of naira. Looking at the book now, I’m seeing where…
Photo credit: BBC Although police from Kenya have been deployed to Haiti, the gangs terrorizing the country have warned they would resist the deployment of the Kenyan policemen, who are better armed and equipped than their hosts. The Washington Post reports that hundreds of Kenyan police officers were deployed to Haiti to beat back the…
Photo credit: Global News A person reportedly fell from a ride at Canada’s Wonderland on Thursday. Global News reports that the person was subsequently taken to a trauma centre. York Region Paramedic Services said they responded to the amusement park in Vaughan at around 2:30 p.m. after receiving a call that a person had fallen from a…
Photo credit: Daily Mirror A Sri Lankan and 64 Thai are among the 88 foreigners detained by Malaysian immigration authorities in a crackdown on sex activities at three locations. Daily Mirror Online reports that the operation took place at a hotel and two entertainment venues suspected of offering sex services on Tuesday and Wednesday. The…
Photo credit: the West Australian Two people running a massage parlour in a Western Australian town have been accused of exploiting foreign workers. Illawarra Mercury reports that the two, Yuteng Zhang and Jess Fang Ching Ting, allegedly mistreated a 36-year-old woman after she arrived in Australia last year by confiscating her passport, underpaying her and…
Photo credit: Multidox Kizito Egeonu must have graduated from the University of Jos. He was a 400 level medical student in 2009. That year must have been a happy one for him, too. That was when he won the unbelievable sum of a million dollars in a promo. I didn’t say a million naira. He…
Photo credit: Premium Times There are some really thoughtful sayings in the English language that will make a person think that maybe the English borrowed them from the ever beautiful Yoruba language. One of them is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is described as an axpression to needlessly self-destructive over reaction…
