Photo credit: ABC News Findings from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark national Racism@UniStudy highlight that racism is deep.ly embedded across Australian universities and has profound impacts on students and staff. More than 76,000 students and staff from 42 universities across the country participated in the Study. The Study findings reveal particularly high rates of racism are…
I’m made to understand there’s a joke amongst the Northerners in Nigeria. The wealthy men would usually build mosques on their premises. In most cases, most of the wealth comes from the commonwealth. They tend to see their riches as their own share of the national cake. The joke comes from the erection of the…
Faithful Christians are observing the Ash Wednesday today. It marks the beginning of the Lenten Season. After forty days of fasting, it will be Easter! However, in the Nigerian situation, are people not already fasting? Indeed, they’ve been fasting materially and spiritually. For the Christians, it hasn’t been funny. It could be said of them…
I still see the Buhari of 1984/85. However, there’s no doubting the fact that he is the Hercules that has tried to clean the Augean stable of our national mess. In fact, it is an understatement to say that the mess stinks to the heavens with a very unpleasant odour However, one thing keeps troubling…
Photo credit: African Development I was a great fan of the round leather game, soccer, in my youth. I actually loved those guys who could dribble their ways into goal. Some of them were Haruna Ilerika, Adokie Amiesimaka, Siji Lagunju, Scoro as Murtala Onigbanjo was known, Segun Odegbami, Rasidi Yekini and so on. Since I…
Photo credit: New York Post Hillary Clinton, while in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security. Fox News reports that while participating in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values,” she said “There is a legitimate reason to have a…
Photo credit: BBC A rally in North York Saturday that drew an estimated 350,000 people called on the Canadian government to recognize Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran’s democratic transition after anti-government protests erupted in Iran at the end of last year. CBC News reports that Aveen Ghahremani, a co-organizer, said the focus…
