The news was agog yesterday about a court in the UK’s sentencing a Nigerian senator who, with his wife, was found guilty of organ harvesting. Knowing how the British love their holidays, and yesterday being Labour Day, were the courts in session? I googled it, and the answer was, “There are no court sittings.” I…
The not-for-profit St. P.A.U.L.S. Inc. will soon run a shelter in the hotel Le Jolie in Brooklyn. News12 Brooklyn reports that the emergency shelter has been operated by the National Guard and the DHS staff since its opening. The Department of Homeless Services said the hotel became an emergency shelter last year. The district’s council member,…
Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, a former immigration detainee, has been accused of violently assaulting a couple during a home invasion in Perth. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Majid had his ankle monitor removed following advice from the Albanese government’s board of experts despite being accused of curfew breaches and other state offences. Anthony Albanese, the…
There’s no doubt that a few things happen daily in our world today. One of these is the fact that our lives are transitory. In other words, just as there was a day when we were born, so shall there be a day when we say goodbye to this world. We tend to move from one location…
The ever-philosophical Yoruba have a saying, ‘Ori yeye ni mogun, t’aise lo po’. This roughly translates to, ‘so many are punished unjustly’. I congratulate Zainab Aliyu immensely on having an influential father. If her father had not been among society’s formidable wheeler dealers, she would most probably have ended up on death row in Saudi…
The two central labour unions in Nigeria are demanding a minimum wage of of fifty six thousand naira. Brilliant, isn’t it? When we look at the profligacy of the ruling class, the working class deserves much more. A faction is even asking for ninety thousand naira. Yes, labour deserves the key to the central bank!…
