Photo credit: Institute on Taxation According to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in 2022, immigrants without legal authorization to work paid $3.1 billion in state and local taxes in New York. Gothamist reports that the amount includes sales, property, and income taxes for an estimated 676,000 immigrant New Yorkers without…
Photo credit: Thisdaylive While grieving with those who allegedly lost their loved ones, I just wanted to emphasize that I’m not making a post for any likes or comments, as usual. Rather, I’m using it as evidence that I spoke up in this season of anomie. Who goes about giving government a month-long notice of…
Photo credit; the Punch I understand the Lagos state governor has launched a probe into the cause of Dr Vwaere Diaso’s death because an elevator was faulty at the General Hospital, Odan. May the soul of the doctor haunt her killers!She died an unnecessary and untimely death!! But having said that, I wouldn’t think a…
Photo credit: France 24 Riots have erupted in the northeast English city of Sunderland amid a string of anti-immigrant protests after the killing of three children at a dance class earlier in the week. Aljazeera reports that officers faced “serious and sustained levels of violence” after hundreds of people rampaged into the city’ centre. They…
Photo credit: the Punch Newspaper A Nigerian family of four has been ordered to leave Canada by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Report Afrique reports that Lola Akinlade used to work as a medical sales representative at a pharmaceutical company in Lagos, Nigeria. There, she met a man who claimed to be an immigration…
Photo credit: CBC News The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated $2 million (Cad) to Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank. This is a great relief, as one in ten Torontonians relies on food banks. DBFB chief executive officer Neil Hetherington said, “Two million dollars—that means some two million meals out to the…
Photo credit: Premium Times When the Nigerian musician, Adekunle Gold dropped an album in June 2016 titled Gold, I doubt if he knew he was indirectly speaking with our houses of religion. He spoke to them in the track titled, ARIWO Ko Ni Music. The noise made by churches and mosques with loudspeakers mounted outside…
