Photo credit: Europost The Public Prosecutor has ordered the detention of two suspects accused of belonging to a criminal network specializing in smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean, and has moved to prosecute other individuals implicated in the case. The Libya Observer reports that the prosecutor’s office said investigations began after receiving information from the Special Tasks…
Photo credit; CBC A new report says more than one million Ontario residents needed a food bank in the past year. CBC News reports that Neil Hetherrington, the CEO of Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank, says, “We see it here every single day at the food bank, at the Daily Bread Food Bank. And it’s…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Work-related migration to rich countries fell by one-fifth last year, as labour markets weakened and countries including Australia and the United Kingdom tightened visa rules, according to new research by the Organization for Economic CHo-operation and Development (OECD). Data from the organization, which is made up of 38 wealthy and emerging economies,…
Photo credit: BBC I guess it was Naeto that sang a song that became the poem of the time, titled ‘kini big deal?’, (what’s the result of all the hassles?) Is it not a song that suits these times? These are times when it has been vividly proved that the average Nigerian will do anything…
I hear Nigeria is about to (if it hasn’t) borrowed a humongous amount of between $23b and $30b US dollars! Yeepa!! Doesn’t it amount to selling our very future? Unfortunately, most of the, if not all, the present political leaders and even those of us who are nobodies wouldn’t be on this side of the…
I love the Yoruba language. Of course, the Yoruba are a people mostly found in the Southwest of Nigeria. One of their songs is,‘Yokolu yokolu,Ko ha tan bi,Iyawo gbo’ko sanle,Oko yo’ke’. The song is normally sung to make jest of people who could have done better and prevent an impending doom. One saying of the…
