Photo credit: Premium Times I really couldn’t believe when I heard the news of people being offered incentives to encourage them to help themselves and the community. Some people are sceptical in taking the covid vaccines. Meanwhile.the vaccines – apparently – do have a shelf life after which they might be less potent. It’s now…
Photo credit: the Guardian The UK’s health services may soon start suffering a depletion of staff. ABC News reports the case of a medical doctor who has practiced in the UK for about 10 years who decided to pack bag and baggage to flee with his family to Australia. The doctor was simply fed up…
Photo credit: reddit A grandmother wanted to be the next Miss Universe but her hopes were dashed in Argentina. AP reports that the 60-year-old who wanted to create a record as the oldest Miss Universe saw her dream vanish like vapour at Buenos Aires last Saturday. Alexandre Marisa Rodriguez is a hospital legal advisor. Her…
Photo credit: starbroek news The Ministry of Labor in Guyana has announced an agreement between SOL Guyana Incorporated and the General Workers’ Union (GWU) that ensures SO)L Guyana staff will receive a significant wage and salary increase and other fringe benefits for 2024 and 2025. Stabroek News reports that according to the agreement, staff will receive…
Adebolu was on the line. Adebolu: Prof, I’m in a fat crap. Me: You only call when you are in trouble. You still owe me a hundred bucks from— Adebolu: Forget the hundred bucks, egbon. You how many naira you are saying? I loaned the money when the rate was 650 naira to one dollar….
Photo credit; Britannica Keresimesi! All go on journeyThey’ve got moneyCymbals soundDrums boom! Odun de! Dunno where money is fromEveryone seems to be drunkWith wine or moneyGo they on spree! Odun olowo! Unable to buy ready made?Go for Aswani madeThat’sAswani gbami odun de! Keresimesi! Some go into theftOthers into debt‘Cos celebrate they mustE’en when unjust! Odun…
Photo credit: the Sun When I was much younger, there was, opposite the then Leventis Stores in Marina, Lagos what was known as Quay Side. True, it was a place where ships berthed and sailors did sailor-like pastimes of womanising, smoking Indian hemp, drinking – sometimes to a stupor, those of them that wanted to…
