Portugal tightens border controls!
Photo credit: the Portugal News According to the Minister of the Presidency, citizens from outside the Schengen area who wish to enter Portugal must undergo a biometric and personal data check, which is “a fundamental element” for monitoring. The Portugal News reports that the minister, Antonio Leitao, revealed after a council of ministers meeting that…
Migrants die in Greece!
Photo credit: The Express Tribune Authorities in Greece began investigating the death of a migrant in police custody on Friday. Keerfa, an anti-fascist group which distributed the images, said 37-year-old delivery rider Mohamed Kamran Asik had been “tortured to death” inside an Athens police station after several days in detention. Neos Kosmos reports that the…
Monday is holiday in Canada!
Photo credit: Canada Holidays Monday is a holiday in Canada. Like every other September 30, it is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public…
Iwo Nikan Ni O Ku! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Nairaland Although I’m not a particularly good dancer, I do enjoy great music. I love African music because it generally has meaning. That explains my love for the talking drum. It’s called the talking drum because it has messages embedded in it. One of the messages is, ‘To ba buru tan, iwo nikan…
Problemses! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Dreams Time You see when a person has been immersed in series of problems and he doesn’t know what to do again, one could safely say they’ve been infested with, ‘problemses’. Such people are accidents waiting to happen. Unfortunately, the more they think negatively about their so called problems, the more other problems…
‘Cry The Beloved Country’ – Adewale Sobowale
The novel, ‘Cry the Beloved Country’ was written by Allan Paton in 1948 just before the inhumane apartheid policy was introduced in South Africa. I should think a quote from chapter 12 of the book is eminently relevant to our present situation in Nigeria. ‘ Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is…