Concerns over lands in Africa!

A Dubai-based company, Blue Carbon, has been taking over large swaths of land in Africa. This has caused some uproar about the risks to the locals’ livelihoods. ABC News reports that in 2023, the Liberian government agreed to sell about 10% of its land to the company. The land could have been logged and used…

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Cookie Crumbles! – Adewale Sobowale

I’ve always advocated for a social welfare system for the Nigerian people. However, some people have persisted in countering it for several reasons. Some will say Nigeria doesn’t have a good database. That has been interesting to me simply because Nigeria does have at least four ways in which a willing administration could get data…

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Discharged! – Adewale Sobowale

I was furious that a popular actress held a party, somewhere in Lagos, to celebrate her husband’s birthday while there was a lockdown because of coronavirus19. The government subsequently arrested the couple and they were prosecuted. I have since learnt that some of the other attendees at the party have had charges against them withdrawn….

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Weeping Frogs! – Adewale Sobowale

Is it not a wonder,Raining without thunder?Vultures are gathered,Season of the reaper! Frogs aren’t croaking,Lions not roaring!Frogs are rather weeping,With lions crying! Due to rat-a-tat-tat!Of the extra largeEnvelope of cowry,We took as bribery! What we’d sownHad become grown,To an Ajantala,We hardly matter! Ah- a colonel!Then- a dan sanda!They were wasted,As we grunted! We just are…

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