Photo credit: ABC News Sidan’s Tawila refugee camp has become a lifeline for hundreds of children separated from their families while fleeing the escalating violence in SWest Darfur. African News reports that according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), over 400 unaccompanied minors have arrived in the camp over the past month alone. NRC’s advocacy manager Mathilde…
Lucky Lee jokes he’s lucky because of his name. His journey has indeed been one of luck – but also of kindness and hard work, an extraordinary story of resilience. He was born to Chinese parents in the 1950s. He spent his early life growing up between Cambodia, Hong Kong and Vietnam, his parents moving…
It’s getting apparent more and more, everyday, that Nigeria doesn’t have a head. It’s not clear if it does even have a tail. The reason is not far fetched. The goings on in that country could be termed to be the Hobbesian state of nature. How can there be a head and preventable crimes will…
Nigeria claims to be a democratic country. Note my word, ‘claims’. Isn’t it in Nigeria that we have prisoners, even in spite of court orders setting them free? We have people like Sambo Dasuki, Ibrahim Zakzaky, Omoyele Sowore and others currently languishing in various detention rooms across the nation. The silly department in charge of…
Photo credit: facebook I belong to a group on Facebook which had a party last year. The success of the party in various ways has made the group to fix another party for December one. Well, people should celebrate! But one thing that beats me silly is the fact that some of their acquaintances were…
One thing that keeps astounding me is the regularity at which seasons move in circles. In spite of the so called global warming, the seasons do not fail us. In the tropics, we have the harmattan, dry and rainy seasons. In the western world there are the winter, summer, spring and autumn seasons. In the…
Photo credit: Euronews The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people travelling on Afghan passports days after a shooting near the White House that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition. City News reports that investigators continued on Saturday to seek a motive in the shooting, with the…
