These are certainly daunting times. These are times when you know the genuine labour unions. These are also times when you can freely guess who true religious leaders are. I learned that even now, some so-called missionary schools are already claiming that their teachers might not get paid due to the situation on the ground….
It’s like the initiators of the so-called Yoruba or Oduduwa nation have withdrawn a bit. Maybe they’ve gone back to the drawing table. Some minutes ago, I went into the archives to read about Onikoyi. It’s said that the Onikoyi do not receive bullets at the back. Rather, they face the onslaught. But, if the…
I got a call from someone about two days ago. The person is no other than Mr Lagbaja the Great. After the initial greetings, I thought he would flaunt his political party’s “winning” of the disputed Presidential election in Nigeria. But he never mentioned that. He was so magnanimous in victory. The nice thing about…
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian young man in Jerusalem. IMEMC News reports that the man was shot in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of the historical city. Reports said several military vehicles invaded the refugee camp, and it led to protests. The soldiers were said to have fired many live rounds, rubber-coated bullets, and…
Saleh Ahmed Handule Ali, 33, left the UK in 2008 for East Africa. But he became stranded. Ali arrived in the UK at the age of nine in 2000 with his mother and two younger siblings from Somalia. They had gone to join Ali’s father, whom the government had granted refugee status. Since the family…
A bill is before the Nigerian House of Representatives to ban fresh doctors from Nigerian universities from going abroad until they have spent five years compulsorily serving the nation. I understand Ganiyu Johnson, APC from Oshodi/Isolo Federal Constituency of Lagos State, tabled the bill. I would implore the members of the House first to suspend…
