Photo credit: Reuters At least six people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a police station in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. AA reports that Israeli warplanes struck the police facility in the camp, marking another violation of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The attack resulted…
Photo credit: Euro News Tighter EU borders and migration deals with African countries have failed to reduce the number of departures from Africa, but merely temporarily diverted irregular routes, according to a report by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) The ICMPD, an organization that works for the EU and European governments to develop migration policies,…
Photo credit: used.fi A new study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland highlights the challenges faced by older immigrants in Finland when seeking social and healthcare services, employment and citizenship. News Medical Life Sciences reports that the empirical socio-legal research was published in Retfaerd (Nordic Journal of Law and Justice). The study outlines the regulations stipulated in Finnish laws and…
Can Nigerians ever imagine a place where almost everything works? I mean a situation in which there are no shouts of, ‘Up NEPA”, because you are over supplied with electric power. A place where the taps run 24/7. Some hospitals are even ready to give patients treatments when they don’t have money. And when we…
The title of nationalist extraordinaire seemed to have been vacant. That was before Buhari got power, in spite of his precedents, bequeathed to him. But now, we all know Momodu Buhari was not just born to rule, he’s as fit as a fiddle to be the Nigerian number one citizen. If not so, he wouldn’t…
Photo credit: Washington Post A drone strike on a town in Sudan’s Darfur region hit a wedding party, killing at least 30 civilians, including women and children, the United Nations said Thursday. The Associated Press reports that Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN’s secretary-general, said during a briefing that the wedding ceremony was in the town…
