Mr Buhari’s speech could at the very best be described as being full of hot air! Personally, I see the sixty-paragraph address as a waste of precious time. It doesn’t have anything that’s substantially new. In the fourth paragraph, the president even says, ‘As your democratically elected leaders,…’ Must that fact be emphasized at these…
What are those things we ought to have done that we’re failing to do? What are those things we ought not to have done that have become kárí ilé, asọ oní súgà for us? Do we belong to political parties? How much do we pay as membership fees? These questions are fundamental because if we…
The new Irish taoiseach and the Spanish PM will discuss their joint plan to recognise Palestine as a state. The Guardian reports that they will also discuss their attempts to force the EU to assess Israel’s human rights obligations as a condition of their trade deal with the bloc.a To this effect, Pedro Sanchez of…
Authorities in the United Kingdom have increased the minimum income required for the sponsor of relatives there on a family visa by 55%. British citizens and residents will need a minimum annual salary of 29,000 pounds to sponsor their family for a family visa. According to the British government, it would be the first time…
A businesswoman has been sentenced to death in Vietnam. The AP reports that the woman, who is a real estate tycoon, was sentenced to death in the country’s highest-ever fraud case. The lady, Truong My Lan, aged 67, was arrested in 2022 and formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion, nearly 3% of the…
We used to talk about brain drain from third-world countries to the West. Does the happening in Nigeria not represent a more serious infection? The inability to think deeply is what I call a thought drain. It reminds me of the Yoruba folk tale about the dog and the tortoise. In the story, there is…
It’s Tuesday. Yet, this week is already promising to be full of interesting things. The most popular word in Nigeria now is “betray”. It’s become so popular that, quite often, many mix up the act and the subject. More seriously, can the politicians say the reason they are declaring for whatever political post is because…
