Washington, DC — On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, DC’s US Representative Oye Owolewa is teaming up with local leaders and the Ronald McDonald House of DC (3727 14th St NE) to provide hot meals for families of hospitalized children.

DC Representative Oye Owolewa, pharmacist, is volunteering in DC elementary schools with a nonprofit organization called RESET (Raising Excitement for Science, Engineering and Technology).

The district is still reeling from its second security scare at the Capitol as homicide rates are the highest they’ve ever been by this time in the year. And the city’s COVID daily average has gone up 68% in the past two weeks. DC’s shadow representative Dr. Oye Owolewa joins The Final Five to discuss crime, the city’s COVID response, vaccinations, and more.

A special thanksgiving prayer was on Sunday held in honour of Adeoye Owolewa, a Nigerian who was elected as the US congressman for Columbia District by members of his family in Omu Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria.

Oye Owolewa describes what it means to be the first Nigerian American elected to US Congress, and does a tour of his neighborhood.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young adults (18 to 25 years old) are America’s most common abusers of prescription drugs — most notably opioid pain relievers, stimulants meant to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and anti-anxiety medications. In 2014, 1,741 young adults died from prescription drug overdoses, up 316 percent from 1999.