Photo credit; Asia News Network Seoul has consistently seen more people in their 20s and 30s move in than relocate to other regions over the past 24 years, while the overall decline in the number of people leaving the capital has slowed. The Korea Times reports that the Seoul Metropolitan Government released the data on Thursday, based…
Experts in education have made us know that people first think in their mother tongues. Is that not a way of saying, you may succeed in taking a man out of the bush but you just can’t succeed in taking the bush out of the man? Many of our kids, in Nigeria, go to schools…
Photo credit: Toronto Today After just over a year, a 551-unit apartment building, Dunn House, was opened in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood; a similar project will be sited there. direct access to doctors Toronto Today reports that Dunn House is the first social housing project in Toronto’s housing history to offer residents a roof over their heads, along with direct…
Photo credit: Instagram “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. The world has entered an era of global “water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. CNN reports that water waste problems afflict regions worldwide: Kabul may be on course to become…
Kindly pardon my use of words. I’m not unnecessarily using poetic license. However, when certain things keep making senseless recurs, I’m always at a loss on how to describe them. Some people have said that some anjonu bring those words, anjonu meaning spirits. Of course, not those that a former presidential aide says are permanent…
When I was younger, I was used to a person who was slow in running errands being described as, ‘baby kingsway’. At least, up to the early eighties there used to be some merchantile stores in the major city centres of Nigeria. Some of them were Kingsway, Leventis, Chellarams, Chanrai, etc. Most of them used…
History is in the syllabus of Nigerian schools. I can tell you that it’s there just for the sake of history! Hardly is it studied by pupils!Hardly are there teachers for it!!Hardly is it recommended as a course to study in tertiary institutions!!! Unfortunately for us, we might never succeed in charting our way forward…
