Photo credit: Aljazeera Asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea will be stripped of government-provided housing and healthcare under a new deal that forces them to cover all living expenses with a single allowance. ABC News reports that the asylum seekers were sent to PNG more than a decade ago under an offshore processing deal with Australia, which has…
The news is awash with the Osodi Chief Tout’s children’s graduation in far away United States of America. Hmm… The Yoruba say if a mad man gets a hoe he would first clear the grass towards himself. The late Fuji maestro Ayinde Barrister also sang about a person called a lunatic who did not fail…
Photo credit: the Guardian Things are getting better in Nigeria. Someone called me this morning while waiting for a Bolt taxi. He was at Maryland and he was going to Ilupeju. Out of curiosity I asked him how much he was going to pay. His response was 1,800 naira. I then asked him what the…
Photo credit: PBS President-elect Donald Trump has promised to eliminate birthright citizenship as soon as he is inaugurated to fulfil his campaign promises aiming to restrict immigration and redefine what it means to be American. News18 reports that efforts to halt the policy would face steep legal battles. Birthright citizenship ensures that anyone born in the United States automatically…
Photo credit: Law Times An Ontario lawyer, convicted of defrauding the US government of over US$3 million and sent to prison for almost four years, has lost his licence to practice in Ontario. NationalPost reports that the lawyer, Ronald Ori Davidovic, between 2014 and 2019, participated “in a scheme in which a network of durable…
