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Ogun State: a bird’s eye view!
Photo credit: Thisdaylive Ogun state of Nigeria has lost many opportunities due to inappropriate governance. Of course, I’m not exempting myself! Nicknamed the Gateway state because of its tangent location to the commercial capital, its access to the rest 9f the country and its status as a border state, it can feed the whole country…
NDP pulls out of deal with Trudeau’s Liberals!
Photo credit: BBC Mr. Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada’s NDP, has pulled his party out of an agreement his party gad with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberals. The deal was called a “supply and confidence” agreement, and it had the NDP supporting the Liberals in confidence votes. However, in a video posted on social…
Ten migrants injured in Mexico!
Photo credit: EI Universal At least ten migrants were injured when a train derailed in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday. NTD reports that a child was missing, according to local authorities. The train transporting containers of sulphuric acid was derailed by a spill when approximately fifteen wagons left the tracks. According to witnesses,…
Survivors of lynched migrant laborer “compensated”!
Photo credit: India Today The wife and daughter of a migrant laborer who was killed in Haryana, India, are being supported by the Bengal government. India Today reports that Sabir Malik was beaten to death by five people for eating beef on August 28. The lynching sparked widespread outrage and drew attention to issues of…
Poll shows African youths are emigrating because of corruption!
Photo credit: Linda Ikeji blog A poll of youth across 16 African countries has shown they would prefer to leave their countries because of corruption. The African Youth Survey, commissioned by the Johannesburg-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation, surveyed 5,604 people between the ages of 18 and 24 in Botswana, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Ivory…
Ways to stop deaths of asylum seekers!
Photo credit: Aljazeera There is no doubt about the fact that most asylum seekers die in the process of fleeing to safer climes. The Guardian reports that increased coastline security and the restriction of viable routes are only encouraging asylum seekers to take risky journeys. The grimly familiar sight of body bags being unloaded from…
Protests continue in Israel!
Photo credit: Aljazeera The six Israeli hostages whose corpses were found in a Gaza tunnel last weekend have made many Israelis resolute on a ceasefire. On Monday evening, protesters carried empty coffins past Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house. BBC reports that they said the burden he carries is much heavier. Thousands of people trooped to…