People have been telling me I’m nuts. But I hardly believed them. However, it took my being locked out to realize I’m sillilly sick. I was attending to some duty where I didn’t need to take my pen and notebook along. When I finished there, I just had to go home for one reason or…
Photo credit: Yahoo News More than 80,000 Canadians have signed onto a petition calling for the removal of US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, accusing him of “undermining” relations between the two countries and having ties to a separatist movement. The Independent reports that the petition campaign seeks to have Hoekstra, a former ambassador to the Netherlands and…
Photo credit: BBC The UK’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has told middle-class communities in Britain that they must “play their part” in accommodating asylum seekers, as the country faces a spiralling migration crisis and mounting pressure over the use of hotels and privately rented homes. Human Events reports that the Prime Minister refused to rule…
The South African government is seeking reimbursements from the governments of Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia for costs incurred in repatriating their nationals. Jacaranda FM reports that the reparations came amid a campaign by fringe anti-foreigner groups, which had set June 30 as an unofficial deadline for undocumented migrants to leave. The Border Management Authority has revealed…
These, definitely, are not the best of times in Nigeria. We are surely going back to the Hobbesian state. Murders are more than rampant now. Kidnappers have been let loose watching to steal fellow humans. Primitive rituals are the order of the day now. The Yahoo boys are yet to repent. The boko haram crisis…
I wonder if Nigeria’s so-called leaders have any sense of shame. Reading the newspapers, one item I can’t ever forget is where the Nigerian leader is said to have visited the APC leader. He visited him, not in his country home in Nigeria, but somewhere in the United Kingdom. One interesting fact is that both…
I understand the erudite Professor Akintoye wrote a letter to Mr Buhari informing him of Yoruba’s intention to have a nation separate from Nigeria. In other words, according to the letter, their Yoruba wants to be independent. I used “their” because I’m not aware of any election among the Yoruba to that effect. We all…
