Opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye has become Senergal’s new President. Fay, a newcomer popular among the youth, promised to govern with humility and transparency on Monday. Faye’s main rival has called him to concede defeat. He thanked President Macky Sall and other candidates for respecting Senegal’s democratic values. He said, “In electing me, the Senegalese…
Doctors Without Borders, the Swiss charity group, has vehemently denied the allegations by Italy that its rescue ship, the Geo Barents, failed to comply with instructions as the organization protested another detainment issue by the Italian Coast Guard. The rescue vehicle was ordered to be held for 20 days after disembarking its latest group of…
Immigration detainees and unlawful non-citizens in Australia may face a minimum of one year in prison if they refuse to cooperate with efforts to deport them under an urgent Labor bill, which will be introduced on Tuesday. The bill requires non-citizens “to cooperate in efforts to ensure their prompt and lawful removal.” It has created…
I gather the petrol distributor has been sentenced to jail. She’s to remain behind bars for twenty seven months. While praising the justice system for doing the needful, I would have thought it better for justice to have some comical effects. For instance, if she couldn’t serve as petroleum minister, why not as a gas…
At the rate the Yoruba people are going, the number of bastards will eventually be much more than those born genuinely! Well, should ‘genuinely’ even be the right word? Why? So many proponents of Oduduwa or Odua or Yoruba or, even, Lamurudu Republic are ‘short fused’ (remember that phrase?) when others differ from their opinion….
I love people who are reflective. People who are reflective don’t act impulsively. Rather, they think of the consequences of their actions before embarking on them! Nigerians have generally voted in Mr Buhari for another four years. Whether or not the election was as a result of deep thought does not matter now. We have…
So you think you can just die like that. Who gave you permission to transform to eternity? The news that Sergei Mavrodi has died will give many people mixed feelings. Mavrodi was the founder of the ponzi scheme called M.M.M. A ponzi scheme is a fraudulent scheme where early investors are paid with the money…
