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Ogede Nbaje! – Adewale Sobowale

So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….

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Diary of a cow! – Adewale Sobowale

Sons of men are celebrating today. They say today’s International Women’s Day! Hmm… There’s even a saying among them that if you educate a woman, you’re educating a generation. So, if you educate a man, you must be educating generations. But then, there’re women that calling them women of substance is an unfavourable understatement. This…

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Stateless! – Adewale Sobowale

Lucky ones went with a backpack; Others with only the clothes on their backs, since their lives depended on it! When they arrived an unknown land, some had to sleep rough, with no loonie, and neither food nor water! No border remembers their names No anthems rise when they stand, The wind never asks for…

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Supreme Court says asylum seekers entitled to subsidized Quebec daycare

Photo credit: Global News Quebec discriminated against female refugee claimants by introducing regulations that denied them access to subsidized daycare spaces, Canada’s highest court said Friday, leading to strong rebukes from members of the provincial government. The Canadian Press reports that in an 8-1 ruling, the court said that blocking female refugee claimants from subsidized daycare threatens to marginalize…

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UNHCR records decrease in intentions of Ukrainian refugees to return to Ukraine

Photo credit: UNHCR The number of Ukrainian refugees intending to return home is decreasing as the duration of displacement grows, yet many remain ready too return immediately once the security situation improves, stated UNHCR Representative in Ukraine Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth in an interview with the Infofax-Ukraine agency. She reported that UNHCR has just completed its seventh round of…

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