Customer Dada Ni – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: National Assembly, Nigeria I tend to wonder what stuff Nigerians are made of. Must we make a mountain out of every molehill? For something as minor as the federal legislators subtracting and adding, we have started shouting again. Must we! Instead of praising those distinguished senators and eminent members of the house for…
Coup attempt in Bolivia!
Photo credit: AP News There was an attempted coup in Bolivia on Wednesday as armoured vehicles rammed the doors of the presidential palace. Still, President Luis Arce stood firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to retreat. The soldiers soon pulled back along with a line of military vehicles. Hundreds of Arce’s supporters…
Cuban women trafficked for sex!
Photo credit: WPLG A man, Emmanuel Garcia Guzman, has been arrested for trafficking Cuban immigrants for prostitution. Arizona’s Family reports that it’s part of a problem across the border of the United States. Guzman was arrested during a sting operation on Friday. To add to his problems, court documents say he is in the country…
ICC says there are grounds to issue arrest warrant for Russian army chief!
Photo credit: the Street Journal The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russia’s former defence minister, Sergei Shoigu and the chief of general staff, Valery Gerasimov. According to ICC judges, the two men are suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in Ukraine. The court said there…
Itire!!! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Business Day Most of my childhood and relatively innocent days were spent at Itire. Itire of those days was a sleepy community in the backwaters of Musin and Lawanson. Musin was known for its market places and notorious for its aluta tradition. Lawanson on its own part was a pathway to civilisation as…