Photo credit: Portugal resident Portugal is at the risk of creating a growing underground workforce as tighter immigration and nationality laws push more foreign workers into irregular employment, according to the head of the country’s Migration Observatory. The Resident reports that in an interview with Espresso, Pedro Gois, director of the Migration Observatory, warned that recent policy changes are driving…
I am asking a question whether Nigerians do use their brains to think at all. I can not be accused of being stand offish because the question includes me too. No matter how we look at the self styled Maradona, Ibrahim Babangida, who himself did not prove better, the greatest favour he did us was…
Yes, she lost the elections. I mean Mrs. Kemi Badenoch lost the elections for the Conservatives in the UK General Elections. Why? As someone who has roots in Naija, she should have organized the elections the way we do in my country. It starts from empowering the powerless masses. She should have encouraged party leaders…
Vultures are disappearing across parts of Africa for several reasons, but belief-based trade has become one of the most worrying and difficult to address. In parts of West Africa, demand for vulture heads, feathers, and other body parts is putting pressure on birds beyond the places where they are openly sold. European Wildlife reports that the…
Eight years ago, a 17-year-old boy stood in front of over 200 FIFA officials and delivered a speech. “My name is Alphonso Davies,” he said. “My parents are from Liberia and fled the civil war. It was a hard life, but when I was five years old, a country called Canada welcomed us in. My…
Photo credit: BBC I learned some so-called Nigerian youth have given South Africans living in Nigeria a 30-day ultimatum to leave Nigeria. I don’t believe we’re in the era of an “eye for an eye”. In fact, that system is rather obnoxious and outdated. While trying to understand where the youth are coming from, I can’t…
Nigerians are definitely an interesting lot. For every little thing they are ready to cry blue murder. Why should people be shouting (or wailing?) about a former governor and a serving senator who went to do a private business in the privacy of a private room in a private hotel where he spent his private…
