Photo credit: Student Connect Ltd The University of Gloucestershire is launching a collaborative research initiative focused on advancing knowledge and understanding of forced migration, as part of its activities to mark University Refugee Week 2006. The university’s website reports that starting on Monday, 2 March, University Refugee Week brings together higher education communities across the…
Photo credit: BBC Way back in the seventies, Africa was the cornerstone of Nigeria’s foreign policy. The military government of Murtala/Obasanjo had taken over control of government on July 29, 1975, having overthrown General Gowon in a palace coup. The gangling Brigadier Joe Garba was the external affairs minister and Professor Akinyemi was the Director…
Why must we lesser animals always suffer just because, sons of men want us to. By the way I think by the time we finish dealing with men, they will know better than calling us lesser animals. We are lesser animals, ordinary minute rats drove a president from his executive office. One of us, an…
While citizens and the governments of other countries are going about the business of making their systems even greater, it’s been discovered that the important problem of Nigeria and Nigerians is the spirit of ‘peck and go’! Starting from the government, people will struggle to enthrone a regime. But what do they get, the government…
If it’s true that in Nigeria, the North is planning to stop the transportation of agricultural materials to the South, including livestock, the South is certainly going to benefit a lot. In the first instance, the South will be free from the marauding herders of the North. They come and rape, kill, maim and rob….
I made an innocent post yesterday imploring Nigerians not to engage in any undemocratic activity. I didn’t know some Àwọnlókàns who happen to be my FB friends read it. Today, when they felt their candidate had won, they descended on me with banters! The lesson of that is we shouldn’t trade friendship for politics. True…
Photo credit: Bloomberg The leader of Canada’s most populous province said Monday “the walls are closing in” on President Donald Trump after the US Supreme Court struck down many of Trump’s tariffs and said he’s also looking forward to the US midterm elections in November which could further constrain Trump. AP reports that Ontario Premier Doug…
