Photo credit: the Guardian The north-west Chinese province is the ancestral homeland of the predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uyghur people. SBS News reports that it is also the site of expanding facilities where hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in detention. “Uyghurs have been subjected to restrictions on religious activities for a long time, but in…
Photo credit: Tennis Canada There is an African saying that good things might come from ugly developments and vice versa. Cyprien Mboko and Godee Kitadi originally lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the late 90s, the country was engulfed in violent political conflict. Godee moved to Montreal in 1999 while pregnant, according to…
Some are of the belief that since African governments generally oppress the average African, we shouldn’t expect Blacks to be better treated the world over. I see that argument as pedestrian. My stand is two wrongs can’t ever make a right. By the way, although Africa remains the root of the Blackman, many of them…
When I was a kid a few years ago, people who performed the pilgrimage to Mecca were the elderly. However, despite the so-called economic problems Nigeria is currently facing, relatively young Nigerians were expected to pay approximately 8.7 million Nigerian naira, as announced by the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board on January 21, 2025….
Photo credit: CTV News US Vice President JD Vance has sparked a row with the United Kingdom, linking the murder of an 18-year-old to what he described as the consequences of mass migration, prompting a sharp rebuke from the UK government. The Times of India reports that Vance commented on social media on the killing of…
Photo credit: Yahoo News Pope Leo XIV heads to Spain on Saturday for a visit focused on Immigration and Social Justice at a politically turbulent time for Prime Minister Pedro Sa France 24 reports that the visit begins with a welcome at the Royal Palace in Madrid from King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. Later in the day,…
Photo credit: the Guardian We, Nigerians, should fear ourselves. We should, because we have this rather interesting ability to pretend that all is well, even when we are in the well. And in most cases, what we say is: All is well! We’ve been having cases of terrorists killing, maiming, and abducting our people quite…
