Alfred & Archie Dazzle School Kids

 Community Report

Alfred Sankor and Archie Bonka have left a mark that will for long time lingers in the memory of Theresa Town Bilingual pupils, parents and teachers when they produced a dazzling performance that electrified the whole school read more

I Bee Beast Defends Himself

  (A Satire)
By Hakeem Babalola

Was the former NLC (Nigeria Labor congress) president, Pascal Bafyau, not one of my boys in 1993? See, I spent N40 billion on the transition program. I gave the then NLC N50 million; NUJ – the yeye watchdog of the society – got N20 million; while PMAN collected N30 million and so on. Am I not right to call them phony? These are the groups destroying our countiri and not IBB per se.. read more

Tolerance Day For School Kids

 By Hakeem Babalola

It was quite a different day and warm atmosphere for students of five schools in district 8 who participated in this year’s Tolerance Tournament organised to promote harmony, peace and tranquillity among school children in Budapest.

The tournament which took place at Orzy  tér on Wednesday was sponsored by Mahtma Gandhi Human Rights Organisation in an effort to bring school age children (between 13 to 16) together to combat racism and xenophobia at the root level.

Football being the most glamorous game in the world is an essential tool to create public awareness for tolerance so that we can live in a better society, according to Gibril Deen who sponsored the event.

Deen said that the tournament is in commemoration of the June World Cup taking place in South Africa next month, adding that it simultaneously took place in three other European Union countries namely Austria, Czech and Italy.

The participating schools are Lakátos Menyhért, Losonci, Molnár Ferenc, Deák Diák and Németh Lászlo all in district 8 in down town Budapest.

Although Németh Lászlo came first, all the participating schools got trophy in order to invoke the spirit of tolerance. Deák Diák came second, Molnaár Ferenc who produced the best scorer, came third while Losonci and Lakátos Menyhért came fourth and fifth respectively. 

There’s no doubting the fact that the students enjoyed themselves as they spoke to Small Voice, saying the tournament provides a warm atmosphere for friendship, social gathering and most especially knowing each other.

Their teachers also share similar sentiments. “This is a very good programme,” said Bűki Péter. “I think the students enjoyed themselves”. 

The Hungarian Football Federation was represented by Vida Gábor 

Cultural Event Marks 2010 W/Cup

 By Hakeem Babalola

A group of African cultural promoters entertained Hungarian audience at the Europark Segafredo Kávéház in Budapest on June 20 to mark the ongoing football festival known as the World Cup in South Africa. 

The event which was organized by the Mahatma Gandhi Human Rights Movement is part of several activities in commemoration of 2010 World Cup taking place for the first time in Africa since the first tournament in Uruguay in 1930.  

The group which comprises of Dava Gin, Festus Ihaza, Okoh Peter, Frank, Tony Papa and Juanita the only female, rendered some African tunes mixed with English to draw the audience who was obviously captivated by Juanita's body movement - along. 

The cultural event lasted twenty minutes after which the audience glued to the large screen to watch Brazil/Ivory Coast group G match in which Brazil won by three goals to one.