Photo credit: iStock I recently came in contact with some Nigerian youths who are doing quite well for themselves in information technology. The fees for their services are not chicken feed. Some of them even have domiciliary accounts with various Nigerian banks for foreign transactions. Of course, there’s no way their impacts wouldn’t be felt,…
Photo credit: Pulse Nigeria Nigerian senators are obviously doing a very hard day’s job for the millions of Nigerian Naira they collect. Or how else can any sane person interpret the bill which is currently making its rounds with them. ‘National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speech’, may soon become a law and woe…
Photo credit: the Irish News A Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist who described surviving gunshots, and a year jailed as a political prisoner has said gaining a scholarship for refugees at a UK university gave him “hope in a hopeless place”. Independent reports that Makomborero Haruzivishe said he was an “ordinary” 19-year-old student when he joined the University…
Photo credit: Watchdog Uganda The authorities in Uganda have repatriated 146 migrants stranded in Saudi Arabia’s deportation centre and prisons, including 54 who arrived in Uganda over the weekend. AllAfrica reports that the effort was led by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social development following an agreement between both countries reached during an official…
Photo credit: New York Post Haiti swore in a new prime minister on Monday after a Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire over the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, according to a diplomatic source in the country. CNN reports that the incident resulted in what the airline described as “minor injuries” to one of its crew…
Yinyin nda! Were I prophet;Lotteries and bets;Will specialize on;They’re novel turns on! Sere ninu Ile! Rites of passage;Didn’t I presage?Sent me from city;Was I liver- lillied! Ma wo nu re! A whole six feet;Doesn’t matter to it;No respect for length;And, down I went! Ki aso re! Protecting my cell;From getting wet;And, down I went;Spite of…
