Photo credit: IOM The World Migration Report for the year 2024 has been released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). IOM was established in 1951 as a part of the UN system.. It started producing world migration reports in 2000. Most people live in the countries of their birth. However, 1 in 30 are migrants. The current global estimate is…
Photo credit: Richard Nixon Foundation The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of US President Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile Communist Bloc nations think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the US in fear of an…
So, I’d been feeling the painit got to a pointthat I had to look up for possibilitiesof seeing dentists! As usual,I procrastinated!Why would I remove a tooth,after all, I’m just a minor! Thoughts of how manybonesmeatsbottle topsmedicationseven papersthat molar had assistedme withI just couldn’t let go! It got to a pointI wasn’t able to munch…
Photo credit: LinkedIn So, how many of us care to listen to the other side of the story? Many people do surprise me when they base their prejudiced and jaundiced ‘judgements” against the other party basing their sickened decisions on the “complainant’s” version of what actually transpired. Even if they were friends with the party…
Photo credit: BBC I understand the African Union is embarrassed by American President Trump’s declaration that some countries are shitholes. Yes, they ought to be. You know people don’t like outsiders to correct or criticize them. If not so, I wouldn’t think President Trump was wrong. In fact, he even tried for the fact that…
Photo credit: the Guardian There is a saying among the Yoruba that we are all thieves, it’s only those caught that are officially called so. I don’t know much about corruption in the First Republic. However, during the Gowonic era, I heard of the “If you Tarka me…” and the Iyabo Olorunkoya cases. In the…
Sometime ago, I used to be a housemaster. By the way, that was the job I enjoyed most. I simply love the youth! While there, more often than not, I had to counsel some boy who had been given a nickname that the more he showed a dislike for the nickname,, the more it would…
