Bingo! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Britannica I’ve painfully come to realize a people’s quality of life could generally be sniffed from how they treat animals. I can remember relating how one squirrel used to juru in my bus stop. It needed not fear people. Rather, they would always come and feed it. The sun is gradually coming out…

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No Balls! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Punch That the staff quarter of Nigeria’s diplomatic staff was demolished in Ghana is no longer news. To add insult to injury, it was done in broad daylight (10.30 am). The Ghanaian government has ‘explained’ that the demolition was carried out by ‘unknown persons’. Please recall that when the revolutionary musician, Fela…

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Encomiums? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: merca2 A couple of days ago, fathers were more or less bathing and basking in the encomiums foisted, undeservedly for most of them, by all and sundry. But let’s speak the truth to each other, do we deserve all the kind words? Definitely, some of us are exceptions. They are the few who…

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Kenya dey boil o!

Photo credit: channels Kill and go don wear de same torosa with people wey no gree for de tax wey de gofment of Kenya put.  De fight wowo for de capital, Nairobi as demonstrators don waka full contri, Dem no leave de president home town wey be Eldoret. De kill and go plus including dose wey dey…

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Cruise ship rescues 68 migrants…

Photo credit: Evening Standard A rescue ship rescued 68 migrants and found five bodies in a traditional fishing boat that was drifting off the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. AP reports that an oil tanker travelling from northwestern Spain to Brazil found the drifting boat on Wednesday afternoon about 815 kilometres south of Tenerife,…

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“1 in 69 people forcibly displaced globally”

Photo credit: Booking Institution One hundred twenty million people, or 1 in 69 people, are displaced worldwide. Aljaxeera reports that 1.5 per cent of the world’s population has been uprooted from their homes. Families are separated, livelihoods are lost, and communities are shattered. Sixty-eight million of those are internally displaced within their own countries, and…

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