Photo credit: Boston Globe As anti-immigration rages, migrants from Zimbabwe are jumping the border into South Africa with ease. Sky News reports that a knee-height barbed wire fence can easily be hooped over to enter South Africa from Zimbabwe where migrants hope to find a better life but are often forced to live in poverty…
Photo credit: Daily Times Segun Olowookere is a 31-year-old Nigerian who was recently released from Kirikiri Maximum Prison after 10 years of being on death row. He had been in prison since November 2010 when he was arrested for armed robbery, during which they allegedly stole hens and eggs. He and a co-suspect were sentenced…
I had wanted to call for the programme to start on an annual personal ritual. However, for two reasons, I’ve realized that it is best to bring it forward by about 100 hours. First, I’m going through a personal experience which further reinforces my feelings that we’re only living on borrowed time. The Owner of…
It happened at Ile Ife. For those who did not know, either out of ignorance or due to their aloofness, the world started at Ile Ife.. The gods came down from heaven on a rope to Mother Earth. Obatala was then saddled with the work of moulding human beings. Ajala was given the job of…
Photo credit: CBC Support is growing for a former Ontario politician, now homeless, to help him restart his life. National Post reports that Lorenzo Berardinetti, a lawyer by profession and former municipal councillor and four-time Liberal MPP, lost his Scarborough-Southwest seat in the 2018 election. In 2022, his attempted return to municipal politics in Scarborough failed….
Photo credit: Jakarta Globe Malaysian authorities announced Saturday that they turned away two boats carrying 300 people believed to be Muslim Rohingya refugees who were found to have entered the country illegally. Jakarta globe.ID reports the Malaysian Enforcement Agency saying it had information that two more boats were attempting to enter the country after a…
Photo credit: Le Journal international Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar has stated that the Government will give a loan totalling Rp20 trillion (USD1.1 billion) for MSMEs, creative economic players, and migrant workers. The Pakistan Observer reports that the minister said the funding aims to boost capital accessibility and provide financial convenience to…
