Photo credit: UN News The price tag for smuggling on European sea routes reached up to half a billion dollars last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Migration Office (IOM) reported on Wednesday. UN News reports that almost half of migrants trying to get smuggled into Italy or Malta from North…
Adekunle Oluseyi and Edward Soje are no more!May their souls find peace with their creator!! Both of them committed suicide in the outgone week. Like I wrote sometime ago, I salute the courage of those people who were so brave enough to commit suicide! So many of us have thought of suicide at one time…
May I use this opportunity to congratulate the ever hopeful people of Ogun State on the occasion of their harvesting their own rights from political spendthrifts? This is election season and politicians are busy outspending each other. Pray, what are they spending on? All those things they ought to have provided for the people in…
Hardly does any sane person need a clairvoyant to know things would turn out this way. The unfortunate thing is the fact that some of us warned against putting that murderer in Aso Rock. But then, it’s like our own ears are even ‘deafer’ than the man’s. We didn’t warn without evidence. We warned based…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Voters in Alberta have chosen to remain part of Canada in a first-ever independence referendum. CBC News called the results of Monday’s vite late on the same day after 48 per cent of the ballots counted showed overwhelming support for the “remain” side, with 76 per cent opting to stay with Canada….
More than 1,000 people were killed in Haiti between July and September as armed gangs continued to challenge state authority, according to the United Nations, which is calling for sustained international support to strengthen security operations and advance the country’s political transition. CNW reports that Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for Haiti,…
Immigration New Zealand says it is now turning down more than half the study visa applications it receives from India, while the refusal rate for Bangladesh remains about 70 per cent. Scoop Independent News reports that Immigration New Zealand director visa, Celia Coombies, told RNZ fake work experience and bogus qualifications were contributing to the high…
