Photo credit: DW The number of Ukrainian refugees in the world (excluding Russia) as of April 30, 2026, amounted to 5,762 people, of , 5,213 million were recorded in Europe and 0.549 million outside of it, according to the May issue of the Monitoring of Main Economic Events of the Ministry of Economy and Environment of Ukraine,…
The Liberal government in Ottawa will bar foreign nationals who have set foot in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past 21 days from entry to Canada due to the risk of importing the deadly Ebola virus. The Canadian Press reports that, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, the new temporary measure will come…
I must confess that the current administration in Nigeria wowed me with the way the Oriire abductees were rescued or released. Some might be surprised by my conclusion, but given what I’ve observed so far, I believe it’s real. We have a saying that there’s no way a portion of a dog’s thigh would be shared…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Indian police baton-charged hundreds of protesting students and activists on Monday to prevent them from launching a march to the parliament. The Independent reports that the protesters are demanding the resignation of Education Minister Daharmendra Pradhan over a series of botched national exams. Ahead of the scheduled march, hundreds of people thronged Jantar Mantar in the…
The Yoruba have a saying that concerns the elderly. The saying goes thus, ‘ogbon gbon lagbalagba fi nsa fun malu’. It literally translates to the fact that it’s with style that the elderly runs away from the ox. However, the deep meaning is that the elderly will always look before they leap. I thought OBJ…
The way Nigerian politicians manipulate billions makes me wonder how many Nigerians have ever seen not to talk of being in control of a billion Nigerian Naira. I’m not even referring to the masses. If you’re not a big time contractor or a very affluent person, I very much doubt if you could have come…
We need to thank the APC for seeing to the repentance of terrorists. You see, I’ve always had this nagging thought that the problems of terrorism in Nigeria can only be solved through religious means. I was even playing with a thought that since the two foremost candidates of the APC look like terrorists, they’ll…
