Scarborough food bank uses UN sustainable goals!
Photo credit: Facebook Feed Scarborough is tackling food insecurity by using the United Nations’ sustainable development goals as a guide. CBC reports that the head of the food bank is encouraging other organizations to follow suit due to its success. There are 17 goals in total, including eliminating poverty and hunger and promoting “responsible consumption and…
Bangladeshi authorities deny dozens of Hare Krishna devotees from crossing into India!
Photo credit: News18 Dozens of members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) who were travelling to India were turned back by the Bangladeshi authorities, even though they had valid passports and visas. The Telegraph online reports that they were turned back on Sunday at the Benapole border because they “lacked specific government permission”…
Migrants posing as children to be weeded out in the UK!
Photo credit: The Conversation Labour ministers in the UK have been urged to introduce strict tests to weed out the growing numbers of migrants who are posing as children. DailyMail.com reports that under a law passed by the Tories earlier this year, the Home Office as the power to carry out scientific checks on those who…
Yokolu…! – Adewale Sobowale
I love the Yoruba language. Of course, the Yoruba are mostly found in the Southwest of Nigeria. One of their songs is,‘Yokolu yokolu,Ko ha tan bi,Iyawo gbo’ko sanle,Oko yo’ke’. The song is normally sung to mock people who could have done better and prevented impending doom. One saying of the Yoruba I can’t forget is,…
Selling The Future! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: The Punch I hear Nigeria is about to (if it hasn’t) borrow a humongous amount of between $23b and $30b US dollars! Yeepa!! Doesn’t it amount to selling our very future? Unfortunately, most, if not all, of the present political leaders and even those of us who are nobody will not be on…
Kini Big Deal? Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: PM News I guess it was Naeto that sang a song that became the poem of the time, titled ‘kini big deal?’, (what’s the result of all the hassles?) Is it not a song that suits these times? These are times when it has been vividly proved that the average Nigerian will do…