Photo credit: News18 Dozens of members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) who were travelling to India were turned back by the Bangladeshi authorities, even though they had valid passports and visas. The Telegraph online reports that they were turned back on Sunday at the Benapole border because they “lacked specific government permission”…
Photo credit: The Conversation Labour ministers in the UK have been urged to introduce strict tests to weed out the growing numbers of migrants who are posing as children. DailyMail.com reports that under a law passed by the Tories earlier this year, the Home Office as the power to carry out scientific checks on those who…
I love the Yoruba language. Of course, the Yoruba are mostly found in the Southwest of Nigeria. One of their songs is,‘Yokolu yokolu,Ko ha tan bi,Iyawo gbo’ko sanle,Oko yo’ke’. The song is normally sung to mock people who could have done better and prevented impending doom. One saying of the Yoruba I can’t forget is,…
Photo credit: The Punch I hear Nigeria is about to (if it hasn’t) borrow a humongous amount of between $23b and $30b US dollars! Yeepa!! Doesn’t it amount to selling our very future? Unfortunately, most, if not all, of the present political leaders and even those of us who are nobody will not be on…
Photo credit: PM News I guess it was Naeto that sang a song that became the poem of the time, titled ‘kini big deal?’, (what’s the result of all the hassles?) Is it not a song that suits these times? These are times when it has been vividly proved that the average Nigerian will do…
Photo credit: the Guardian The Australian government has restricted the number of domestic workers diplomats can bring into the country, a UN anti-slavery expert has reported, after two recent federal court cases exposed systemic exploitation, a judge described as “slave-like working conditions”. The Guardian reports that the United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery concluded a…
