Photo credit: Herald.Wales Several countries are issuing travel advisories and warnings to their nationals amid far-right riots across the UK. The United Arab Emirates, Kenya and India have joined Nigeria, Malaysia, Australia, and Indonesia in informing their nationals about the goings on in the UK. TRT World reports that the Kenya High Commission in London…
Photo credit: Arise News The hunger protests in Nigeria from August 1 to 10 seem to have mellowed, save for the peaceful ones in Lagos State and the looting in some northern states. I am hearing rumours that the one in Rivers State is still going on. However, at least for the ruling elite, things…
Photo credit: Business Day I just heard the saying, ‘e pepper for mouth’ from the streets. I am not an ‘area boy’, neither am I an ‘area father’. Indeed, the only celebrated area father I know is C. Boy! However, I always say I am streetwise. But something happened to me in 1999 that put…
Photo credit: News Hamster I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you…
Photo credit: Mondoweiss Since October 7 Israel’s crackdown on the West Bank town of Tulkarem has intensified. Raids are almost daily, have been more destructive and lethal, and have transformed the lives of more than 8,000 Palestinians living in the city’s refugee camps The sun set on Tulkarem’s damaged streets last Saturday, August 3, 2024,…
Photo credit: NBC The United Nations has announced that it will fire nine staff members working for its Palestine U.N. Relief and Works Agency. An investigation revealed the affected staff may have been involved in last year’s Hamas-led attacks on Israel. Several UNRWA personnel allegedly took part in the Oct. 7 attack that killed 1,200 people,…
