Photo credit: AMU TV Figures released by the Taliban’s Refugee Return Commission have shown that at least 8,000 Afghan migrants were deported from Pakistan and Iran in a single day. It has added to the mounting pressure on communities struggling to absorb returnees. The returns occurred through four major crossings: Torkham, Spin Boldak, Islam Qala and…
Photo credit: Daily Mail One of the most famous shopping thoroughfares in the UK, where top retailers are based, Tottenham Court Road in London has been transformed into a shanty town. The Daily Mail reports that long lines of tents have sprung up housing homeless migrants. A ramshackle “village” of tents clustered along the central London street close…
Photo credit: Streamline Kenya has officially acknowledged that over two hundred of its citizens are currently fighting alongside Russian military forces in the conflict against Ukraine. Yeni Safak reports that active recruitment networks continue to target Kenyan nationals for enlistment. The Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi confirmed the development on Wednesday. He noted that some recruits previously…
Photo credit: Premium Times Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, on Wednesday announced the cancellation of the teaching of Indigenous languages, otherwise known as mother tongue languages, as the medium of instruction in Nigerian primary schools. The minister, a medical doctor, announced the unprogressive move at the 2025 Language in Education International Conference organized by the…
That the Ogun State government has deemed it fit to officially recognize ADIRE, a traditional batik that has been made popular by the Egbas is great. However, I don’t see anything new in that. When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was President, he hardly wore anything apart from ADIRE. Osoba and Amosun too tried to project the…
