So, some people still believe that what is going on in the Middle East is about religion or power. They must have another think coming! For sure I don’t support the criminality of Hamas in attacking harmless civilians – killing and taking hostages – anybody who does is definitely a sadist. However, methinks the powers…
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…
Photo credit: CTV News A conservative Canadian think tank has ranked Canada as the twelfth “freest” country in the world based on a global index that measures human freedoms, while claiming that freedom has declined for the vast majority of the world’s population in recent years. CTV News reports that the Fraser Institute, jointly with…
This is the season when the challenged, in various manners, are remembered. The old, the invalid, the motherless which includes the fatherless, could be lucky to be remembered. However, I’m looking at it from another angle. Let’s assume that each of them gets a ram, a bag of rice and four litres of cooking oil….
Photo credit: The Cable There’s this news of Mr Buhari going to inspect his herd of cattle while refusing to visit the school or the parents of the boys who had been kidnapped in HIS state. I wonder what the problem of journalists are. After all, the president had sent a high ranking official to…
