I was discussing internet fraud with a friend a couple of months ago. He revealed the craze’s advantages to me. First, he says it has reduced the crime rate as if it were not a crime. Second, the boys who indulge in it use the financial proceeds to boost the economy. They buy cars, land,…
Richard Drax, a British MP from a slave-owning family is set to gain 3 million pounds from the sale of his family’s plantation. The Guardian reports that he is a subject of criticism for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery. Despite threats to make him pay reparations and seize his family’s plantation, the government is…
Ireland’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee has said the Irish government will introduce some measures that will favour asylum seekers from unsafe countries. Irish Independent reports that those in that category will be processed through a fast-tracked international protection system. That step will be part of a further clampdown on record levels of immigration. The plan…
When some descendants of migrants who are now citizens of foreign countries and happen to be in government talk, one wonders where their sense of history is. So it is with Kemi Badenoch, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade. When addressing financial bosses at TheCityUK’s international conference in London last week, Badenoch…
Just a preamble about the topic. For those who lived in Lagos, Nigeria in the sixties and early seventies, there used to be a bakery on Ojuelegba Road almost close to Yaba called “De facto Bakery.” There, they baked arguably the most delicious bread and cakes, at that time, in Lagos. I wouldn’t know how…
