Photo credit: Edinburgh live Hundreds of flags were removed from lampposts across Scotland, with many removed in Edinburgh last year as social tensions around immigration grew. Edinburghlive reports that over 700 banners – almost all of them saltires or Union jacks – were taken down from public property by local authority workers in 2025/26, marking a…
Photo credit: The Globe and Mail Every Sunday morning, on the westernmost edge of Toronto’s Cabbagatown, 45 or so worshippers cram into the tiny chapel at Saint Luke’s United. Every seat in the pews is usually spoken for, with extra chairs squeezed into the aisles. But the tight quarters haven’t cramped the church’s sense of…
In the mental hospital, we were given hard-boiled eggs without salt. I came to see my time in isolation, and the forgoing of salt, as a form of slow torture. For over a month, I did not see anyone except the attendants when food was handed to me. When I bathed in the basin, I…
‘Ori yeye n mogun, tai se lo po nbe’. The aforementioned is a Yoruba saying denoting the injustice of power when used stupidly. I just learnt about one hundred men of the Nigerian police force were sent to make sure Bob Risky didn’t celebrate his birthday. Bob Risky himself ‘spoke with his legs’! Omo olomo,…
I’ve always told whoever cares to listen that the Nigerian situation will get worse before getting better. See the headline of yesterday’s news. The Interim Management Committee of the NDDC (Niger Delta Development Commission) has declared that Nigeria will break if it releases the list of looters in the organization. Dr Cairo Ojougboh, the executive…
Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada’s immigration reset is entering a harder phase. After Ottawa sharply reduced planned arrivals of international students and temporary workers, the head of a prominent immigration-policy council is arguing the country should go further. Parisa Mahboubi, who chairs the CD Howe Institute’s Immigration Targets Council, says the federal goal of bringing non-permanent…
Scientists have drawn a clear line between one everyday skill and clearer thinking. Independent reports that writing by hand – instead of typing on a laptop or tapping on your phone – has serious cognitive benefits. “There’s actually some very i important things going on during the embodied experience of writing by hand,” Ramesh Balasubramaniam, a neuroscientist at…
