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Migration is a powerful driver of progress — lifting economies, connecting cultures, and benefiting countries of origin and destination alike. Yet when migration is poorly governed or misrepresented, it can fuel hate and division, endangering the lives of people seeking safety and opportunity. Since 2014, nearly 70,000 migrants have died or gone missing along land…

Photo credit: Daily post Nigeria has about 30 airports and various expressways, with the controversial Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway still under construction at $12.5 billion. While I won’t say airports and expressways are not desirable, I know, not feel, that they are not as useful as agricultural estates. National priorities must follow national emergencies, and Nigeria’s most…

Photo credit: NBN News A former federal Labour MP in Australia, Craig Thomson, has been jailed for four years for his role in a multi-million dollar visa fraud scheme and fraudulently receiving COVID-era payments. ABC News reports that Thomson had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of delivering a document containing a false statement and one…

Photo credit: Los Angeles Times It wasn’t easy for migrants in Spain as police in the country carried out eviction orders on Wednesday to clear an abandoned school building where around 400 of them were living in a square north of Barcelona. The AP reports that, knowing that the eviction order was coming, most of them…

Photo credit: the Globe and Mail Ottawa should open a permanent residency pathway for Ukrainians who came to Canada through a special visa program launched after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress said on Wednesday. CTV News reports that the CEO of the congress, Ihor Michatchyshyn, said his organization presented a policy…

Photo credit: Aljazeera US President Donald Trump has ordered a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s government, targeting its main source of income. The National reports that it is unclear how the order will be imposed, and whether Mr Trump will turn to the…

Photo credit: Antares News Indonesia’s Migrant Workers Protection Ministry is integrating its Golden Migrant Village program with the Ministry of Villages’ Thematic Village scheme to make overseas job placement safer, cheaper, and better regulated. Antara reports that the initiative was discussed by Minister of Labour and Protection of Workers Mukhtarudin and Ministers Yandri Susanto for…