Mine was a very lively childhood. I would say I had a pretentious innocence. That’s because I actually knew much more than the adults knew that I did. And, I’m suspecting that at least half of the youngsters of those days had a semblance of that too. You know, school was an experience. A very…
A certain governor in the southwest has declared that it takes a lot of courage to be earning less than $24,000 and be presiding over a budget of more than $500,000. He is also ‘visibly’ worried by the poor take home pay of civil servants. In the first instance, I wouldn’t know if the governor…
Photo credit: Asia News Network Over 469 people have been killed, and nearly 1,500 are missing after a massive flash flood hit Nepal this week, as authorities in China flagged more geological risks upstream. Indians make up the largest number of missing foreigners, with Nepal’s new tourism board’s data showing 178 people from the country were missing….
Kidnappers in Nigeria collected more than $500 million in ransom payments over the last year, a Lagos-based intelligence group said on Thursday, as the country faces a multifaceted security crisis. The Associated Press reports that according to Kehinde Giwa, a security analyst at SBM Intelligence, “For every ransom that is paid for a kidnapping incident, you…
Photo credit: CBC Political leaders in Canada are speaking out against an executive order by US President Donald Trump to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, saying the move is offensive and doesn’t hold water north of the border. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a post on social media on Thursday that…
The federal government has, through the director general of the National Council for Arts and Culture. To usher in the 2017 African Arts and Craft Expo starting in Abuja today, Olusegun Runsewe was said to have gleefully announced that this would affect subsequent cultural events to be held in the country. After banning what it…
He’s positioned as the Director-General for Arts and Culture. Anytime he wants to justify his post and pay, he must go deep in arrant nonsense. He was reported to have dwelt on the Nigerian crossdresser, Bob Risky in a recent interview. As we used to say in those, not too far days, of my youth,…
