A yet-to-be-identified group of criminals suspected to be bandits have whisked away an unspecified number of school children in Ekiti State. A viral video seen online by Naija News showed a school bus emptied with the driver and supposed school children all missing.
Residents would be seen lamenting the growing insecurity in the region as they inspect the school bus with different emotions.
A netizen [@dammiedammie35] who shared a video clip of the incident online, alleged that the kids were abducted while going to Eporo Ekiti from Emure Ekiti in their school bus on Monday morning. Read More...
Tell Them You Love Me, a documentary now streaming on Netflix from director Nick August-Perna, does not include a single interview with its main subject. The film is about the white, abled former professor Anna Stubblefield, who was accused of sexually assaulting Derrick Johnson, a nonspeaking Black man with cerebral palsy whom she says she taught to communicate via a method called facilitated communication (FC).
Johnson isn’t interviewed in the film, because his family has always understood that his diagnosed intellectual disability and lack of motor control meant he would never be able to communicate. Read More...
When my editor asked me to write an article for the What’s Next issue, I panicked. I foresaw long hours in laboratories trying to interpret the jargon of scientists finding new ways to map the brain, implant RFID chips in my skin or create a tofu that fails in its attempt to taste like yet another kind of meat. What, I pondered, would be the easiest subject I could tackle? What never changes? Read More...