Photo credit: BBC Every foreign criminal would be deported from Britain under Tory plans being unveiled by Kemi Badenoch’s party today. Daily Mail reports that all offenders convicted of “anything more than a parking ticket” could be evicted as part of the plans. The Tories estimate it would boost deportations from 6,000 to 40,000 people in a…
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s foreign policy is guided by establishing autonomy in strategic fields to limit superpower coercion, along with aspirations to lead middle powers. Canadian Press reports that Anand said Saturday in Canada’s annual address to the United Nations General Assembly that “Great powers are walking away from global economic integration. “In the face of this…
Photo credit: Reuters Germany and Syria began talks on the return of Syrians living in Germany, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told Rudlaw on Saturday, saying the two countries have yet to reach a final agreement. North Press Agency reports that Dobrindt told Rudlaw, “We have started talks with Syria after his [Syrian Transitional President Ahmad…
I understand Iyiola Omisore has declared his intention to go the APC way! In the first instance and before people start manufacturing any insinuation, I just thought I should make it clear that I’m not a supporter of the PDP! However, a lot of horse trading must have taken place before Omisore’s declaration. When we…
Anytime I hear the NLC call out workers to go on strike for wage increase, I always laugh. I tend to resort to laughter because it’s evident that the Labour leaders have learnt nothing so they couldn’t have forgotten anything. You don’t give what you don’t have! There have been at least a couple of…
There’s this fable about an elephant who had been terrorizing a community. The people then decided to make him the King so that he might probably stop giving the community hassles. But then, the community was wise enough to have sunken a ditch below the enthronement platform. The people were singing, Ao m’erin j’obaEweku eweleAo…
I just thought we should compare the military government of Mr Buhari to his executive presidency. It’s true the Shagari administration which Buhari toppled really made a mess of the economy. But was the Buhari administration well positioned to bail out the Nigerian people? Well, the military used its usual force of repression to cow…
