Photo credit: the conversation The only difference between an average Nigerian politician and a chameleon is straightforward. While the former is a human being the latter is a reptile. However, the Nigerian politician has a disease, the disease is called Borderline Personality Disorder. When BDP infects someone, they display The Chameleon Effect. When a person…
Photo credit: Times of Israel That the International Criminal Court has issued warrants of arrest on two Israeli leaders and one Hamas leader is no longer news. However, is the ruling worth the paper on which it was written? I ask this question with all seriousness. Lawyers usually use relevant judgements as precedents to support their…
Photo credit: the standard Canada’s Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) uncovered over 10,000 fraudulent student acceptance letters this year. BS50 reports that the revelation follows intensified scrutiny of international student applications, with 500,000 documents reviewed in 2024, under stricter verification measures. Media reports say about 80% of the fake letters were linked to students from…
Photo credit: Financial Times Lebanese Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine said on Friday that 420,000 Syrian refugees had returned from Lebanon since the beginning of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict in October 2025. People’s Daily Online reports that Syrian authorities dealt positively with Syrian returnees and the 170,000 displaced Lebanese who had sought refuge in Syria due to…
Kyrgyzstan’s speaker, Nurlanbek Shakiev, has called on Russia to reduce anti-migrant sentiments. Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked country in eastern Central Asia. 24KG reports that the speaker stated this at the 57th plenary session of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly in Petersburg. he emphasized that terrorism has no nationality or ethnicity, so it is necessary to…
Photo credit: Daily Nigeria I’ve always told whoever would listen that I’m a product of public institutions. However, those were the days when public schools were worth attending. I can remember a song we used to sing to a story in my primary school, Mo ri keke kan;Tere aja lo bale tere;Opobi pobi;Tere aja lo…
There’s no doubt that God, in his mightiest, would bless a land that respects the human rights of His creation – man! I was on the bus this morning, going to my next home. It is within walking distance, but it’s too windy for me to venture a trek. A younger man, probably in his…
