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Photo credit: the Globe and Mail On Sunday in Calgary, hundreds celebrated in front of the city hall, waving Syrian and Canadian flags, dancing, and chanting. CTV News reports that Sam Nammoura, co-founder of the Syrian Refugee Support Group, said, “This is the right for a glorious future. Any hiccups along the way, we will…
Photo credit: RNZ In Fiji, the government has announced new measures to tackle its soaring immigration population. Scoop World reports that the number of illegal residents in the country has doubled in a year and now stands at more than 8000. A government source told RNZ Pacific that 90 per cent of offenders were Pacific Islanders who had…
Photo credit: Benar News Some 27,000 foreign nationals in Malaysia guilty of immigration offences have taken advantage of a government program that allows them to return home for a nominal fee. CNA reports that the Mirant Repatriation Program initiative started on March 1 and will end on December 31. Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department director Wan Mohammed Saupee…
Photo credit: Cyber Express I’m delighted this morning. That’s because the government of Nigeria and a couple of state governors have found a ‘permanent’ solution to social media’s incursion into an otherwise docile society. Through social media, people learn about what’s happening in other countries and organize to destabilize the status quo. The saddest thing…
I’m so sad! If the news I hear is accurate, then the Grim Reaper is blind. We all know death is a wicked spirit. But for it to have harvested a pleasant lady is meanness carried too far. She sold drinks at Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta in Nigeria. She had become a man because her clientele…
A video clip is going viral on social media now. I have decided not to share it for a number of reasons, among which are: I don’t want to corrupt the assumed yet-to-be-corrupt state of our youths who have not been caught indulging in such; I don’t want to promote the embarrassing scene; and I…
Photo credit: BBC Yoruba have a saying, Eyan tan! It’s typically said when someone a person holds dearly has disappointed the person who trusted him. Unconfirmed news has emerged that the Imo State House of Assembly has endorsed Gomina Okorocha’s son-in-law as the next governor of the state. It’s apparent that the House doesn’t want…
