Photo credit: Arab News Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated on Monday that his landlocked country must have access to the Red Sea, despite neighbouring countries saying at a summit on Sunday that responsibility for the sea rests with the states along its shores and warning of the risk of regional conflict. The Associated Press…
Nigeria – A Season of Serial BetrayalsA Civic Renaissance Series for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Failure Is Not an Accident – It Is an Economy Nigeria’s failures are not random.They are not mysterious.They are not the result of “bad luck,” “bad leaders,” or “bad culture.” Nigeria fails because failure is profitable for the people who manage…
Someone in the National Youth Service Corps said recently that the organization is being overstretched. I believe that was an understatement of this fast ending year. The days when Youth Corps members are called up for service almost as soon as they write their last papers have certainly gone. Of course, anybody waiting for those…
‘To speak of peace and harmony now would be treason to the dead.’ – Rose Schneiderman ‘To keep Nigeria one, justice must be done!’ – Wole Soyinka I just thought we should look back and consider what could have gone wrong with us as a people. That is, of course, if we are really a…
There’s this squirrel that normally comes around my bus stop. I believe it’s resident around there. Whenever it’s around or whenever I happen to be around, it comes, wagging it’s bushy tail. Some people, usually whites, give it some peanuts and it even performs some stunts for them. The stunts couldn’t have been for me…
The APC and it’s candidate are sending a cryptic message to Nigerians! But most of us are busy singing, Mi rí kẹ̀kẹ́ kanTéré àjà ló ba lẹ̀ tereÒpobí pobíÒpobì pobìÒrí polóbì oTéréÀjà ló ba lẹ̀Téré! It’s unlike the cyle or the horse our parents made us to see the unforgettable Awo riding in the sky…
Photo credit: BBC Smuggling of drugs, weapons, and counterfeit goods, as well as trafficking of irregular migrants, were uncovered during a week-long operation dubbed Balkan Bridge II that ended on Sunday, head of the General Directorate Border Police Anton Zlatanov and Deputy Director of the National Customs Agency Stefan Bakalov reported during a press briefing at the…
