The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday April 26th, 2022 – International Chernobyl Remembrance Day
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1977 to help make electricity for the infrastructure of the Soviet Union, or in modern-day terms, Pripyat, Ukraine, to develop economic growth. Before the infamous incident, in 1982 the nuclear plant had a partial meltdown of reactor 1, causing some damage and taking a few months to repair.
The initial accident wasn’t reported until the Chernobyl Disaster happened. The disaster was caused by a power surge that caused core explosions and open fires, leading to significant radiation leakage to disperse into the atmosphere and surrounding lands. Large areas of Europe were affected by this event as the radiation spread as far as Norway.
Nigeria: The Road To 2023 by Kola King
ln good times and in bad times, in periods of war and in peacetime, in times of uncertainty and strife, politics will always gain ascendancy no matter what happens because man is a political animal. Indeed this is the season of politics. The starting gun has been fired and the race is on. Jostling for power and position has started in earnest. Politicians have a date with destiny. The road to 2023 is also a magical date for Nigerians in the sense that failure to get it right may lead to a slide to the slippery slope. This may eventually lead to a race to nowhere, as it were. Already red flags are on the horizon. For example, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that elections might not hold in some parts of the north due to widespread insurgency in that region. In this regard, terrorism, insurgency, and kidnapping pose a major security challenge. In the southeast, activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have created a smouldering security challenge there as well.
Most troubling is an alarm raised by INEC that over 45 percent of the Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) in the country are invalid. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this at a media briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, however, said 1,390,519 PVCs are found to be valid as of January 14. He also expressed fears about the 2023 elections due to worsening insecurity in the country.
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I Keep My Poems #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“in handwoven
Amish wicker
baskets,
sealed in glass”
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Fika bonding! #031 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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