I understand the labour leaders in Nigeria have settled for a minimum wage of seventy thousand naira, which is barely above $40. A 50kg bag of rice is sold for around that amount. That is to say, Mr Tinubu has graciously given labor a bag of rice! Shall we shout seventy gbosas for all the…
When a masquerader chases you, whip-clad: Just persevere as there’s no monopoly of fatigue: It happens to eatthlings, just like extraterrestrials! There’s this peace, silence – graveyard-like! While few moneybags enjoy commonwealth! Poverty-ridden majority – live in squalor! Few escape into refugeedom! Majority attempt escaping, squalid life, organizing, mobilizing into groups fighting for release from…
Photo credit: the Boston globe The US military launched airstrikes Sunday targeting Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to retaliate for the killing of American troops in Jordan, further widening the crossfire between the nations as they fight over the Strait of Hormuz. The Associated Press reports that the strikes, now part of a weeklong campaign that has…
Photo credit: OCCRP Seven people have been arrested following a coordinated international operation targeting an organized criminal network accused of smuggling migrants through Bulgaria to other European countries. The action involved law enforcement authorities from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands, with support from the South East European Law Enforcement Centre (SELEC) and Europol’s European…
A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. The Associated Press reports that Alcantara was greeted at the airport by a crowd that cheered, sang, and held their phones high in the air…
I want to believe that success is actually a form of magic. Or could it be described as an aphrodisiac which everyone is attached to when it comes? That France won the recently concluded World Cup soccer competition that was held in Russia is now history. They defeated the hard fighting Croatians by four goals…
A tiny English village has declared symbolic independence from the United Kingdom after the Labour government announced plans to place 1,250 single male asylum seekers at a former military base bordering the community. Todayville reports that residents of Piddington, Oxfordshire, approved the declaration in a 185-7 vote on July 4, with roughly 96 per cent backing…
