Photo credit: The New Yorker Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish corder, watching a smuggler lean a ladder against a very high wall as members of the Belarusian border guard looked on. The New Yorker reports that Ahmed, a nineteen-year-old Somali, is tall and lanky, with close-cropped curly dark hair. At home…
Photo credit: NDTV The Trump administration’s military intervention against Iran has evolved from a presumed swift demonstration of force into a deepening strategic quagmire. Yeni Safak reports that initial assumptions underpinning the campaign – that intensive aerial bombardment would paralyze Iran’s military capacity and that internal dissent would trigger popular uprisings – have collided with battlefield realities. Tehran has maintained its retaliatory capabilities,…
Photo credit: Toronto Star Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada would like to see a diplomatic solution to the ear in Iran, even as Canada has expressed support for the US military attack that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday. Toronto Today reports that Anand, speaking to reporters in New Delhi after Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly cancelled his scheduled…
If soldiers are gentlemen and gentlemen’s words are their bonds, then the recantation of the five thousand naira promise to unemployed Nigerians couldn’t have been uttered by President Buhari. Even though he is a retired soldier, old soldiers, they say, never die. The discipline is always there. To deny the unemployed people the benefit of…
A photograph is going trendy on the social media now. It’s the one of a so-called destitute woman in Ibadan. That should not have rung a bell because it is not strange in this country. However, the shocking thing is that most of the posters do not fail to remark that the photograph is that…
There’s this trouble that’s always brewing up between some Igbo and Yoruba people. You know when people are well fed they will be looking for bekun bekun! The Lagosians’ accusation is that the Igbo do not respect them to the extent that they are calling Lagos a no man’s land. Apart from that, they are…
I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you like. In my active…
