Photo credit: Aljazeera The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it. Iran apparently responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The Associated Press reports that…
Photo credit: AzerNews A majority of Hungarians support maintaining strict migration controls along the European Union’s external borders and believe national governments should retain primary authority over immigration policy, according to the results of a newly released public opinion survey. AzerNews reports that the findings indicate that most respondents favour stronger border security measures, reflecting continued public concern…
Photo credit: National Post Ontario must pay social assistance benefits to a foreign migrant living illegally in Canada, a tribunal has ruled in a case revealing that welfare intake workers did not conduct an immigration check of the applicant to avoid jeopardizing his ability to remain in Canada. The National Post reports that the Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal…
Kizito Egeonu must have graduated from the University of Jos. He was a 400 level medical student in 2009. That year must have been a happy one for him, too. That was when he won the unbelievable sum of a million dollars in a promo. I didn’t say a million naira. He won a million…
There are some really thoughtful sayings in the English language that will make a person think that maybe the English borrowed them from the ever beautiful Yoruba language. One of them is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is described as an axpression to needlessly self-destructive over reaction to a particular problem….
I can remember someone on a campaign for the 2nd Republic ruling party in Nigeria then saying about a rival who was a vegetarian that, in the confines of his home, he ate meat more than a wolf. The man later became our hope for 1993, but eventually, the president that never was. I also…
