Photo credit: Reuters With COVID 19, it has become apparent that even though we live in the same world, there are different strokes for different folks. I’m saying so because while the affluent do care about their lives, the poor, even if they do care, are forced by their endemic situation to go look for…
Photo credit: NPR Beginning a new life in another place is problematic for most of us. Pulitzer Center reports that for refugees, however, it is a permanent solution to an issue that they never thought they would have to solve. Over 6 million Ukrainians have fled across the globe since Vladimir Putin’s soldiers invaded Ukraine three…
Photo credit: the Guardian Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal. CTV News reports that the rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United…
Photo credit; UNCHR Over 41,000 refugees have fled the Democratic Republic the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reports that many of them have witnessed killings, “sexual violence and other traumatic experience during their flight. Since the end of last month, about 600 Congolese have been crossing into Uganda daily. …
Photo credit: Thewill We used to have some games when I was a kid. You see, I grew up in what you could call a semi traditional environment. Semi traditional because even though we were living in the city, we were taught the mores and values of traditional life. Also, our grand parents were living…
I’ve always spoken in favor of a social welfare system for the Nigerian people. However, some people have persisted in countering it for a number of reasons. Some will say Nigeria doesn’t have a good data base That reason has been interesting to me simply because Nigeria does have at least four ways in which…
Photo credit: BBC I was furious that a popular actress held a party, somewhere in Lagos, to celebrate her husband’s birthday while there was a lockdown because of coronavirus19. The government subsequently arrested the couple and they were prosecuted. I have since learnt that some of the other attendees at the party have had charges…
