The United States of America has congratulated Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC on his victory at the 2023 presidential election.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday March 1, declared Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of February 25 presidential elections, over main opposition candidates, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of LP.
A statement released by United States Department spokesman, Ned Price, read;
"The United States congratulates the people of Nigeria, president-elect Tinubu and all the political leaders.”
“This competitive election represents a new period for Nigerian politics and democracy.”
Price also acknowledged the discontent among some Nigerians over the validity of the results.
“We understand that many Nigerians and some of the parties have expressed frustration about the manner in which the process was conducted,” he said.
“Nigerians are clearly within their rights to have such concerns and should have high expectations for their electoral process.”
“We call on all parties to refrain from violence or inflammatory rhetoric at this critical time,” Price added.
The United States of America has congratulated Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC on his victory at the 2023 presidential election.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday March 1, declared Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of February 25 presidential elections, over main opposition candidates, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of LP.
A statement released by United States Department spokesman, Ned Price, read;
"The United States congratulates the people of Nigeria, president-elect Tinubu and all the political leaders.”
“This competitive election represents a new period for Nigerian politics and democracy.”
Price also acknowledged the discontent among some Nigerians over the validity of the results.
“We understand that many Nigerians and some of the parties have expressed frustration about the manner in which the process was conducted,” he said.
“Nigerians are clearly within their rights to have such concerns and should have high expectations for their electoral process.”
“We call on all parties to refrain from violence or inflammatory rhetoric at this critical time,” Price added.
Thursday, 09 February 2023 04:03 Written by OASESNEWS
Mr. Busuyi Ogundele is organising fundraising for Mr. Kayode Ogundele.
Mr. Kayode Ogundele was involved in an auto accident on January 14, 2023, on I75 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. USA. Mr. Kayode Ogundele was extremely active and healthy before this accident.
He has been in coma since that fateful day ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Froedtert Hospital & Medical College of Wisconsin.
A fund raising is being organised for him to help in his medical expenses during his admission and after leaving the intensive care unit and he also needs financial help to get him on a road to recovery and healing.
Please help with whatever you can. Any amount will be appreciated. Click on this link: https://gofund.me/ca964341
A Massachusetts mom has been accused of strangling her two young kids and trying to kill her infant before jumping out a window months after revealing she was struggling with her mental health after giving birth.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, is said to have killed her children at her home in Duxbury on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
She had opened up about her battle with postpartum anxiety on Facebook in July 2022, months before the shocking violence.
Six weeks after the birth of her third child, the mom of three shared another post about how she felt "dialed in" again.
She said she was focusing on exercise, nutrition and her mindset and "it has made all the difference".
Sources have told CBS Boston that authorities are considering the possibility that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, allegedly killed her daughter, Cora, 5, and her son Dawson, 3, and tried to kill her 8-month-old son.
She remains hospitalized after jumping out a second-floor window at her Summer Street home, about 35 miles southeast of Boston, in what authorities said was an attempted suicide.
Clancy faces two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation or suffocation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Firefighters responding to a 911 call from Clancy’s husband, Patrick, discovered their three children "unconscious, with obvious signs of trauma," officials said.
Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead at a hospital, while the infant boy — who turned 8 months old on Thursday, Jan. 19 — was flown to Boston Children’s Hospital, where he remains hospitalized.
"I cannot begin to fathom the pain, the depths of pain" the family must be feeling, said Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz, who did not provide information about a possible motive.
The Toronto Star reported recently that American real estate giant Blackstone Inc., with a global real estate portfolio worth about US$514 billion, plans to expand its Canadian operations, including via student housing.
The shift from “houses as dwellings” to pure market investment is a challenge for university and college students and for cities around the world. It’s part of a larger challenge revealed in the documentary Push where Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, travels the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why.
Awareness, policy and regulatory solutions are urgently needed to improve student housing.
Student solutions
I teach communication courses. One is a business communication for a master of applied economics and policy program and another is a general elective course for undergraduate students about well-being. In both courses, students examine a current societal challenge and pitch solutions.
All these factors point to the reality that student housing is a complex problem that requires dynamic solutions.
Students pitch their solutions
In my classes, students participate in active debates about housing and the
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Students pitch solutions to the housing crisis. One group might suggest “Instaglam” solutions (
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Typically, students review philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s persuasive list of human rights (known as
) to frame housing as a human right.
Economics students have suggested an investment scheme: Part of the cost of student housing becomes a tax-free savings plan for their future housing investments in the local community. Nussbaum’s central capabilities lists suggests that people should have opportunities to “hold property.”
In a course dedicated to developing innovative solutions to the housing crisis, students learn about not-for-profit and supportive approaches to housing.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Alex Usher at Higher Education Strategy Associates estimates that by 2025, universities and colleges will take in more than 50 per cent of tuition fees from international student enrolments. The Canadian and Ontario governments hope to generate new revenue while bringing in highly qualified students to prepare for a modern labour market.
The housing crisis demonstrates that focusing higher education planning on unpredictable labour markets and precarious work in a gig economy is narrow and misconceived.
Statistics Canada reported that in the 2019-20 academic year, there were 2.2 million students in public colleges and universities in Canada.
Canada’s current immigration plan will add nearly 1.5 million immigrants by the year 2025, and many immigrants will land in cities with universities and colleges.
Partnerships, support needed
Post-secondary institutions need to ensure they are connecting their recruitment strategies with local housing market data.
Institutions should be educating campus advisers about housing advocacy for students and cultural training for their communities, for neighbours, landlords and community professionals. Advisers need to identify solutions for students who know nothing about leases, bus routes, neighbourhood safety and negotiation with landlords and roommates.
On-campus solutions
Institutions need adaptive on-campus housing solutions for the most vulnerable populations. They need to do this rather than seeking to profit from student rents or mandated meal plans as a result of post-secondary underfunding.
Students who opt out of residence live with little to no support from post-secondary institutions.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
When students opt out of residence because it’s too expensive, they live with little to no support from post-secondary institutions in homes that are relatively unregulated for student living.
Offering housing as a human right means providing shelter where students are safe from mould, fire hazards and maintenance issues. Students should have freedom of movement and be safe from assault, harrassment or human trafficking.
Student housing should connect to economic opportunities rather than a future of crippling debt. Housing should be culturally supportive to provide students opportunities to be among colleagues, mentors and friends as they wade through critically important developmental opportunities to become engaged citizens.
Accessibility, affordability
Student housing needs to be more accessible and more affordable.
Whether the solutions are dormitories, partnerships with private investors with specifically designed regulations and inspections, government-run housing or a combination of these strategies, student housing needs more policy and more planning.
We need specific policies and regulations for student rentals that are based on housing as a human right.
A new act in Canada bans non-citizens, non-permanent residents and foreign commercial enterprises from buying Canadian residential properties. (Shutterstock)
Under the act, non-citizens, non-permanent residents and foreign commercial enterprises are banned from buying Canadian residential properties. The act also has a $10,000 fine for anyone who knowingly assists a non-Canadian and is convicted of violating it.
The law does not include recreational properties or larger buildings with multiple units. It exempts individuals with temporary work permits, refugee claimants and international students if they meet certain criteria.
It also excludes homes outside of the Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) or Census Agglomerations (CA). A CMA has a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more live in the core area. A CA has a core population of at least 10,000.
The housing crisis
The two-year ban is part of the federal government’s effort to ease Canadians’ struggle to afford homes. According to the Canadian Real Estate Association, the average home price in Canada was above $800,000 in 2022, compared to $500,000 in 2015.
Meanwhile, median after-tax household income in 2020 was $73,000, up from $66,500 in 2015 — a meagre annual growth of two per cent compared to the seven per cent annual growth in average house prices. Canadians were eyeing houses with prices more than 10 times their incomes.
Houses for sale in a new subdivision in Airdrie, Alta., in January 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
In a recent report published by his think tank, Paul Kershaw, a policy professor at the University of British Columbia, found that average home prices would need to fall $341,000 — half of the 2021 value — to make them affordable for a typical young person at current interest rates. Either that or full-time earnings would need to increase to $108,000 per year — 100 per cent more than current levels.
Who’s the culprit?
Some believe that foreign investors and speculative activities have fuelled Canada’s surging housing prices and spurred the affordability crisis.
“Homes should not be commodities,” Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen said in a December 2022 news release. He continued:
“Through this legislation, we’re taking action to ensure that housing is owned by Canadians, for the benefit of everyone who lives in this country. We will continue to do whatever we can to ensure that all residents of this country have a home that is affordable and that meets their needs.”
How many foreign homeowners are there in Canada? Data that tracks foreign buyers and owners in Canada are scarce and patchy. The Canadian Housing Statistics Program shows that non-residents only own about two to six per cent of Canadian residential properties in 2020.
Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen rises during Question Period in November 2022 in Ottawa.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The number of foreign participants is scantly relative to the volume of transactions in the market. Foreigners’ contributions to the housing crisis are puny and paltry in comparison with everyone else’s, many of whom have eagerly traded up for bigger homes or down for smaller ones and benefited from the lucrative market.
Is the policy justified?
The law is more of a political gesture than an effective tool. The fact that foreign owners represent a tiny segment of the market suggests the new law is unlikely to exert much impact on making homes more affordable to Canadians.
This gesture, however, does send a signal to Canadians that the government is willing to impose heavy-handed policies to address the housing crisis. The gesture, together with rising interest rates, will cool down the red-hot housing market in the short run.
When a policy aims to push one group into a corner, it is likely to create new challenges elsewhere. Foreigners, for example, can still buy recreational properties in less populated areas. It would be interesting to see if and how the policy might stir up challenges in these exempted areas.
More importantly, the ban is a form of restriction on foreign direct investment in domestic assets and the flow of foreign capital into the housing market. The question is: are we using the policy’s minute impact to justify protectionism?
Encouraging home ownership
The housing crisis is a tricky issue. There is no single policy that could address the affordability issue without introducing other challenges. In fact, most policies would essentially lead one to rethink about what “affordability” actually means.
For one, any housing policies need to achieve a balancing act between two notions of affordability. One notion is based on prices; the other, which tends to receive less attention in the conversation about housing affordability, is about maintaining home ownership status.
Take the recent interest rate hikes as an example. On the one hand, increasing interest rates have lowered house prices to become slightly more affordable to home buyers. On the other hand, the same interest rate hikes have burdened existing homeowners with a heavier mortgage expense alongside other costs in their daily budgets.
Buying a home, and being a homeowner, is not like buying a piece of fine art, which often stays with the owner with little maintenance. Instead, home ownership — a crucial piece of the affordability puzzle — requires people to maintain their cash flow. If we consider affordability from this broader view, it is not surprising to see that the ban is unlikely to affect housing affordability.
On the evening of Dec. 18, five people were killed in a mass shooting at a large condominium in the community of Vaughan, Ont., located just north of Toronto. A 73-year-old resident of the building — a man who had a long-standing dispute with the resident-based condominium governing board — opened fire on condo board members and others.
But this mass shooting was different for me. That’s because I live in the building.
York Regional Police respond to a mass shooting in Vaughan, Ont. on Dec. 18.(J. Rozdilsky), Author provided
I now face the cognitive dissonance of what it means to have both professional and personal survival perspectives of first-hand exposure to a mass shooting.
An otherwise normal Sunday evening
The night of Dec. 18 started off as an otherwise normal Sunday evening. But then I heard a fire alarm and, like many other residents of Bellaria Tower, exited the building. At the time, I had no knowledge of being in the vicinity of an active shooter.
I took the stairs down to the lobby, made my way to the garage and still thinking this was likely a false fire alarm, which usually meant waiting outside for a while, I left the complex to run some errands.
When I returned about two hours later, the level of police response on the scene — along with a large media presence — made it clear this was not a typical fire evacuation. I arrived as heavily armed tactical officers were making sure it was safe to return into the building.
We later learned the rampage ended in the hallways of the building when the shooter was killed by a police officer.
Re-entering a crime scene
In the aftermath, residents gathered outside on the other side of yellow police line tape. It was five hours before I was able to return to my home. When we were allowed to re-enter the building, well after midnight, police officers escorted the returning residents around the perimeter of crime scenes in the main lobby.
That night, I saw things that I cannot unsee. There were pools of blood on the pavement outside the lobby and more blood on the floor inside.
Six people died in a mass shooting incident in Vaughan, Ont., including the alleged shooter.
While I was not physically injured in the incident, I fall into the category of one who was present during the shooting. According to research conducted on the community-level adverse mental health impacts of mass shootings, primary exposure refers to the impacts faced by those who were injured or present and in danger of being shot.
I’m distressed that my neighbours and I are now facing the mental health consequences of a mass shooting, simply because we happened to live in a particular condominium building where this horrendous incident took place.
In the days after being exposed to a mass shooting, it is difficult to pin down my thoughts while living in the environment of a mass shooting crime scene.
Run, hide or defend
During a mass shooting, individual actions one can take in response are run, hide or defend. At the time, I reacted to a fire alarm, meaning I ran out the building. Had I known there was an active shooting in progress, my behaviour may have changed. At the very least, I would have considered what my most viable survival option may have been.
A main experiential takeaway is that during a mass shooting, appearances of the incident unfolding around me were deceiving. I did not realize that I was in an active shooter situation until I was out of it.
Conducting research immediately after a disaster presents ethical challenges that the researcher must navigate. A researcher’s goal is to learn from disaster experiences so that lessons learned in the aftermath can be used to increase public safety in the future.
A major issue in conducting quick-response research is access. Access allows for purposeful sampling, where a goal of the field researcher is to get proximity to a disaster site and interact with the site itself and people with specific knowledge regarding the event.
That degree of access is something that is, in theory, beneficial for a disaster researcher. But it’s also the type of access that I personally never wanted to have.
After a mass shooting in Vaughan, Ont., people leave flowers at a makeshift memorial.(J. Rozdilsky), Author provided
Agency ReportKindly share this story:A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said.No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News.
“The individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, adding that “this was not an accidental shooting.”Police said that the victim was a teacher in her 30s and her injuries were believed to be life-threatening.Imagine such, how did he get the gun & having the mind to shoot at someone. The influence Wahala wahala wahala Wahala..and the boy will go scot free las las Shits
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