Photo credit: FMT The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said on Monday that over 543,000 travellers crossed the Singapore-Malaysian land border on September 6. CNA reports that the single-day record was logged during the September school holidays from August 30 to September 8. During the period, over five million travelers crossed the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints,…
Photo credit: Newsday Zimbabwe The Zimbabwean government, in collaboration with UNICEF Zimbabwe and The Boost Fellowship Trust, have officially launched The FairChance Program. NewsDay reports that launched last Thursday, the initiative aims to empower the youth of Tongogara Refugee Camp by providing critical skills, knowledge, and opportunities to help refugee youth integrate socially and economically while…
I couldn’t be happier last Sunday. It started as a WhatsApp chat, and it read:‘Good morning to you and the entire household. God bless you, my dear brother.’The person was not on my WhatsApp list, and the profile picture was womanish. So, I replied: ‘Good morning sis. May I meet you?’‘I remain Aderemi Agoro, the…
Photo credit: AATF 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…
Photo credit: the.Guardian 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. I don’t know the phrase’s roots,…
Kaduna state teachers during examination. 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, we have…
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…
