Photo credit: Euractiv Thirty-eight African migrants have been arrested in Tunisia after fighting with coastguards who intercepted their boat. The migrants were trying to sail to Europe. Barron’s reports that the migrants were said to have attacked a coastguard who had tried to stop them from setting off from the coast of Sfax, Tunisia’s main…
Photo credit: CLi studios I don’t know why people will always insist I must dance. Physically, I’m almost as tall as a standard goal post. It is therefore not easy, if not totally impossible for me to subject myself to the orgasmic contortions dancers go into. Again, my mother hardly danced. My grandparents were great…
Photo credit: Premium Times On the 8th of February, 2014, the BBC news reported that Mike Harper, the immigration minister of the U.K. had resigned from the government after it emerged that his cleaner did not have permission to work in the U.K.. He resigned despite the fact that investigations did not show that he…
I couldn’t help myself this morning. Those who know me would have realized I’m a hen as far as dancing is concerned. A kii r’ijo l’ese adie! However, I surprised myself this morning. I danced! Yeah, I did!! What happened? I was playing Fela Kuti’s ‘Je nwi t’emi’, on YouTube. I couldn’t, but dance. In…
Photo credit: the conversation Having perused the letter, I didn’t see anything Dr Olusegun Obasanjo wrote that’s new to Nigerians. The only thing that is rather new is his belief that government belongs to the people, ‘We need unity of purpose and nationally accepted strategic roadmap that will not change with whims and caprices of…
Photo credit: the Cable The various video clips of the funeral of one Mr Cubano’s mum should earn the mother an everlasting visa to paradise. What’s more! Abba Kyari, the great crime buster, also attended the ceremony. Is it the many cows that unfortunately met their untimely death because they were used for barbecue? Is…
Photo credit: Premium Times I understand the National Center for Women’s Development has been named after Mariam Babangida. I guess that’s a very laudable gesture. After all, the lady, apart from being the first celebrated and fashion conscious first lady of Nigeria introduced the Better Life Programme for Rural Women. With Mrs Tinubu’s launching of…
