I’ll begin this article with a story about the Biafran-Nigerian civil war. The Nigerian authorities initially felt the war would last a few weeks and often described it as a limited police action. However, the war lasted 30 months due to the resilience of the Igbo. Although they were overwhelmingly outnumbered, isolated, and lacking access to…
COVID 19 is undoubtedly taking so many lives. Even though it’s a pandemic, there’s no clear certainty about its origin yet. Its cure remains even more shrouded in mystery. However, it has succeeded in showing the different shades of administration throughout the globe. While in most of the civilized world, it’s as if the respective…
With COVID 19, it has become apparent that even though we live in the same world, there are different strokes for different folks. I’m saying so because while the affluent do care about their lives, the poor, even if they do care, are forced by their endemic situation to go look for means of sustaining…
Photo credit: Citynews Montreal Tenants and community groups in Montreal’s Parc-Extension borough gathered for a vigil Tuesday evening to honour and remember the life of Manjeet Singh, a 42-year-old unhoused migrant, who died earlier this year, after he was evicted from his home. “He was an asylum seeker. He was alone here. His family is still back…
Photo credit: The Guardian Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere risk their lives each year to cross the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama. The Darien Gap is an imposing obstacle on one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes. The remote, roadless crossing on the border between Colombia and Panama consists…
We used to have some games when I was a kid. You see, I grew up in what you could call a semi traditional environment. Semi traditional because even though we were living in the city, we were taught the mores and values of traditional life. Also, our grand parents were living with us or…
I’ve always spoken in favor of a social welfare system for the Nigerian people. However, some people have persisted in countering it for a number of reasons. Some will say Nigeria doesn’t have a good data base That reason has been interesting to me simply because Nigeria does have at least four ways in which…
