Photo credit: the Globe and Mail In a show of support for Arctic cooperation, Canada and France have opened consulates in Greenland. The 30utlook reports that it signals stronger diplomatic engagement with the Arctic territory amid growing geographical and economic interest in the region. Officials from both countries said the new missions, inaugurated this week in Greenland’s capital…
Photo credit: BBC Thirteen individuals, including four asylum seekers, have been identified trying to enter the Isle of Man illegally in the last 12 months. Isle of Man Today reports that in one case the costs of enforcement removal totalled more than 22,000 pounds. Details have been given in a Freedom of Information request. The Treasury…
Photo credit: Croatia Week The Croatian government has sent amendments to the country’s Foreigners Act into parliamentary procedure. It introduces new requirements for foreign workers that include mandatory Croatian language learning as a condition for reviewing residence and work permits. It also eases restrictions on changing employers. The Dubrovnik Times reports that the proposed changes that have been approved…
It’s not Armageddon but I believe it would be more interesting than the end of the world. One thing is that the fight that would signal the end of this sorrowful world is so predictable. That’s why we have believers preaching for. people to come and enter the bus of salvation or aljannah as the…
I hereby tender my unreserved apology to Field Marshall Mohammed Buhari. I had seen no good in him due to his antecedents as military Head of State. I, therefore, refused to vote for him as a civilian president! I just felt his torpedoing an elected president disqualified him for the exalted post of a democratically…
Photo credit: Premium Times In the eighties, specifically 1983, when public buildings were getting burnt by insiders turned arsonists, Ray Ekpu, the celebrated journalist predicted that the NET building would be one of the next to be burnt. Presto! The building was burnt. That’s no news. The news is the fact that Ekpu was arrested….
Some people are so well-fed that they have chosen rather conveniently to turn a blind eye to the suffering of the generality of Nigerians. Bamu bamu layo;Awa o mo pebi npa omo eni kankan!! Is the opposition causing the price of virtually every commodity to rise? Is it the opposition that’s making take-home salaries not…
