Abigail Marshal Katung, winner in the 2019 Leeds City Council elections. Councillor for Little London and Woodhouse Ward Of Leeds City Council. A video is currently going viral of a Nigerian politician. The video made by the BBC (Yoruba) is of a Nigerian female politician who recently won elections in the UK. In the video,…
Did you know that most countries do not require educational certificates to be elected for any political post? What most countries require are citizenship, having lived in the country for a certain number of years and a specific age. Nigeria’s requirement for educational certificates might be a fallout from our colonial past when it was…
Ngeria – A season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Citizenship Is the First Institution Before a nation can build courts, parliaments, refineries, or armies, it must build citizens. Citizens are the first institution of any republic – the foundation upon which all other institutions stand. When citizenship breaks, everything else follows:…
I’m the most respectful person. But then, there’s a catch to it, ‘All things being equal’. In any case, respect begets respect. Nobody is begging anyone to offer themselves to serve the people. They must have something to offer the people in terms of qualitative services. If they don’t have anything to offer, then they…
Egyptian authorities swept up the entire editorial team of one of the country’s few independent media, accusing them on Thursday of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The Associated Press reports that the arrest this week of the six journalists of Matsadaash sparked an outcry from international and regional rights groups who called it an “alarming escalation on…
Photo credit: The Mirro A brave six-year-old girl and her mother played a vital role in thwarting an alleged attempted hijacking on a FlyDubai flight bound for Israel. Mirror reports that Nina Manes was on the plane when chaos erupted, having boarded with her mother, Tali and father, Tzika, on the way to Tel Aviv from Dubai. Nina…
