Photo credit: BBC Anti-immigration riots broke out in Dublin on Tuesday night, and several people, including a girl, were injured. The Mirror reports that the disorder broke out near Citywest Hotel in Saggart, County Dublin. The violence erupted after the alleged sexual assault of a child, thought to be the girl in question. Objects were…
Photo credit: RTE Six members of an Italian charity which rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea have gone on trial in Sicily. RTE reports that they are accused of aiding illegal migration. The case centres around the Mare Jonio, a ship operated by Mediterranea Saving Humans (MHS), which took 27 migrants off a tanker in…
Adekunle Oluseyi and Edward Soje are no more!May their souls find peace with their creator!! Both of them committed suicide in the outgone week. Like I wrote sometime ago, I salute the courage of those people who were so brave enough to commit suicide! So many of us have thought of suicide at one time…
Vote buying during elections. Photo credit: Guardian May I use this opportunity to congratulate the ever hopeful people of Ogun State on the occasion of their harvesting their own rights from political spendthrifts? This is election season and politicians are busy outspending each other. Pray, what are they spending on? All those things they ought…
Photo credit: the Guardian Hardly does any sane person need a clairvoyant to know things would turn out this way. The unfortunate thing is the fact that some of us warned against putting that murderer in Aso Rock. But then, it’s like our own ears are even ‘deafer’ than the man’s. We didn’t warn without…
Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada A majority of Canadians say they support communities declaring states of emergency in order to clear homeless encampments in parks and public spaces, according to a new poll. National Post reports that thirty-two per cent of Canadians said they supported the tactic and and 25 per cent said they somewhat supported it….
I’ll start this essay with the fact that I always refuse to praise any democratic government for what it’s using taxpayers’ money to do, if it actually does it. But then, there’s always an exception to any rule. The Yoruba say that, if we say our father’s masquerade will dance, and they don’t, nobody can arrest us….
