Photo credit: Toronto Today A new city staff proposal recommends a significant rewrite of Toronto’s rules governing street vending and busking. If approved by the city council in April, the change would cut permitting costs, reduce outdated restrictions and spell the end of a 24-year ban on new vendor licences in the downtown core. Toronto…
Photo credit: AP News A night attack on a community in Nigeria’s north-central region left at least 20 people dead, residents and authorities said. The Independent reports that the attack occurred on Sunday night in Gari Ya Waye community in the Jos North area of Plateau State, Joyce Lohya Ramap, according to the state commissioner for information….
We used to sing “Now the Day is Over” in my elementary school. Considering the global situation, methinks the song was predicting the future, which is now. But we could have an everlasting day if we are willing. I mean, when we stop the avoidably needless wars, which will stop the unnecessary killings and maimings,…
At times like this when we see people who have turned something that could have been embarrassing into an act of strength or courage we should sound the cymbals in their praise. I wouldn’t know where a blackmailer got the Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni’s nude photographs from. The fact is that the person contacted her…
Why is it that only a few Nigerian statesmen are getting it right? I just watched the API-organized ‘The Rush to Canada’ by Nigerians. The most pathetic thing was when one Dr Bassey, who represented Abike Dabiri, implied that if people in the northwest of Nigeria were not running away from the country – rather…
