Photo credit: UNHCR Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide are risking cold weather with far less assistance than in previous years, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The organization’s Dominique Hyde said, “Humanitarian budgets are stretched to breaking point, and the winter support that we offer will be much less this year. Families will have…
Photo credit: AP News The European Union has given a UN-affiliated body hundreds of millions of dollars to help thousands of African migrants return from failed journeys to Europe and support them back home. But migrants tell the Associated Press that promises by the United Nations-affiliated organization are not fulfilled, leaving them to face trauma, debt and…
Photo credit: Human Rights Watch A group of foreign ministers and senior officials from more than 20 countries have issued a joint statement condemning atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law in Sudan. AA reports that they expressed “deep alarm over reports of systematic violence against civilians.” They described the “deliberate targeting of civilians, ethnically…
That our president, his excellency, Mr Goodluck Jonathan is making his intention known today is not news. It is not news because he has the right so to do. Politically, the conditions are also right. The two hundred girls who were seized by the dreaded boko haram have been married off to members of boko…
People do suffer! OK, I’ve been hearing a phrase, Gb’omu le lantern, the literal meaning is placing some breast on a lantern. Can you imagine how it will feel? Putting a woman’s succulent breasts on a lit lantern. Even a man will certainly not enjoy it. Actually, I don’t know the roots of the phrase….
Kaduna State teachers fail Primary 4 test. Photo credit: BBC I love law! Indeed, I love looking at legal angles to analyse sociopolitical problems. In most cases, the legal position may not respect morality. The ability to use logic is more apt. However, in a number of instances, legality tends to bow to morality. Hence,…
Photo credit: BBC What have we become? In the past people respected themselves and things went on in an orderly manner. Money had value then. How many young people know one Guinea? That is one pound one, that was the abbreviation for one pound one shilling in British currency. We usually heard it in bazaars…
