Kidnappers in Nigeria collected more than $500 million in ransom payments over the last year, a Lagos-based intelligence group said on Thursday, as the country faces a multifaceted security crisis. The Associated Press reports that according to Kehinde Giwa, a security analyst at SBM Intelligence, “For every ransom that is paid for a kidnapping incident, you…
Photo credit: CBC Political leaders in Canada are speaking out against an executive order by US President Donald Trump to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, saying the move is offensive and doesn’t hold water north of the border. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a post on social media on Thursday that…
The federal government has, through the director general of the National Council for Arts and Culture. To usher in the 2017 African Arts and Craft Expo starting in Abuja today, Olusegun Runsewe was said to have gleefully announced that this would affect subsequent cultural events to be held in the country. After banning what it…
He’s positioned as the Director-General for Arts and Culture. Anytime he wants to justify his post and pay, he must go deep in arrant nonsense. He was reported to have dwelt on the Nigerian crossdresser, Bob Risky in a recent interview. As we used to say in those, not too far days, of my youth,…
I’m reading it’s now an offence in Ondo state of Nigeria for civil servants to send their wards to private schools. That means it’s a must for them to send them to public schools. As much as I love the patriotism of the governor who is a one time president of the NBA, the association…
Sometime in the not-too-far past, I used to visit Togo frequently. Of course, you can only visit Togo from Nigeria through the Republic of Benin. At least, that’s the only route I know. Since the hotel I usually stayed in was on the Togo-Ghana border, I usually used the opportunity to visit the beautiful Kwame…
Photo credit: Global News Dhyan Jeny Enterprises Ltd. pleaded guilty in Moose Jaw Provincial Court on Aug. 11 to charging a foreign worker, making the first conviction under the Saskatchewan Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act (FWRISA). Global News reports that while this is the first conviction under the legislation, some experts say it…
