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Canada passed a landmark bill Tuesday legalizing recreational marijuana, becoming the second country to make pot legal nationwide. The  legislation  will allow Canadians to buy and consume weed as soon as September, the BBC reports. It is expected to receive royal assent sometime this week. Canada criminalized pot possession in 1923, but became an early adopter of medical marijuana in 2001. The Cannabis Act was approved by the Senate 52-29 after already passing the House of Commons. The law allows the federal government to license producers and regulate how they grow, sell and distribute marijuana. Under the law, adults 18 and up will be allowed to possess up to ounce of weed for recreational use, and grow a maximum of four plants. Weed-infused edibles will be legal within one year of the law’s implementation, a delay meant to to give the government time to figure out how to regulate the products. The exact timeline for the law depends on when Prime Minister Just

Following the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari to honour late Moshood Abiola, the late politician’s daughter, Hafsat Abiola-Costello has expressed her feelings over the development in a write-up. Buhari in a press release on Wednesday conferred on MKO Abiola a posthumous honour of GCFR and also declared June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Hafsat, who is also the President of Women in Africa expressed her happiness and gratitude to Muhammadu Buhari, while at the same time attacking Obasanjo, a beneficiary of June 12, for ignoring MKO. ”Obasanjo did not even ask for a minute of silence for the Democracy martyrs on his inauguration on May 29, 1999,” she noted. Here is Hafsat’s poem: “Twenty five years after June 12: Our Long Wait for Justice is Ending “I had expected that the handover from military rule to democracy would be held on the 12th of June.That would have signalled the completion of a circle that began with a dream deferred.That became one fulfilled but I wai

Forty-six Ethiopians drowned and 16 were missing after a human smuggler's boat carrying at least 100 refugees capsized as it approached Yemen. The vessel left the port of Bossasso in Somalia on Tuesday with 83 men and 17 women on board. They were hoping to find work in Yemen and the Gulf, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Wednesday, citing information from survivors. IOM's director of operations and emergencies, Mohammad Abdiker, said the Gulf of Aden's migration tragedy was shameful. "Over 7,000 poor migrants take this perilous journey every month; some 100,000 took it just last year. They are treated appallingly and go through horrendous conditions. This has to end," said  Abdiker . The drownings happened just days after IOM helped 101 Ethiopians - including 51 women and 33 children - to leave Yemen for Djibouti, as fighting closed in around Yemen's key port of  Hudaida. They were stranded in Yemen an

death toll from twin blasts on a mosque in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has risen to at least 16 people, and the number of wounded to 35, security officials who wished to remain anonymous, said. Wednesday's attack on the predominantly Shia Sadr City district caused damage to nearby buildings, the officials said. A statement issued by the Iraqi government said the explosion, which ripped through the mosque, took place at a weapons warehouse in Sadr city. The government noted it was still investigating the incident.  The mosque is frequented by supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada's al- Sadr  whose Sairoon coalition won a plurality of seats, 54 in total, in the last month's parliamentary elections. Earlier in the day, Iraq's parliament voted in favour of a full recount of some 11 million ballots cast in the May 12 vote. Members of parliament also sacked a nine-member independent electoral commission that oversaw the process and replaced the body with judges.