Photo credit: Linda Ikeji blog A poll of youth across 16 African countries has shown they would prefer to leave their countries because of corruption. The African Youth Survey, commissioned by the Johannesburg-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation, surveyed 5,604 people between the ages of 18 and 24 in Botswana, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Ivory…
Photo credit: Aljazeera There is no doubt about the fact that most asylum seekers die in the process of fleeing to safer climes. The Guardian reports that increased coastline security and the restriction of viable routes are only encouraging asylum seekers to take risky journeys. The grimly familiar sight of body bags being unloaded from…
Photo credit: Newsverge I understand some #EndBadGovernance protesters have been charged to an Abuja court. Of course! It serves them well. Who do they think they are? If they had read their history well—very well—they would have known that the bulk of people whose right it is to protest are already in the Emilokan government….
Photo credit: the Punch Yeah! It’s a fact that Nigeria was at the forefront of nations that fought for South African freedom. That Nigerians are getting a rough deal in South Africa is no secret. But then, could we look at things in their proper perspective? Before Nigerians got into South Africa, there had been…
Photo credit: TVC News It’s no longer a secret that MKO Abiola’s house was raided by some miscreants recently. I refuse to be bothered about any house being robbed. Yeah! How could anyone with some sense be bothered since insecurity is the order of the day in Nigeria? At least, we take consolation in the…
Photo credit: the standard There’s quite a few things some self– styled social media in–laws don’t know about relationships. But then, they’ll be so fast in passing one–eye judgements. Is it one–ear? Anyone who doesn’t wait to hear the second party’s side of the story, has done a great injustice. Before one of the two…
Photo credit: Aljazeera The six Israeli hostages whose corpses were found in a Gaza tunnel last weekend have made many Israelis resolute on a ceasefire. On Monday evening, protesters carried empty coffins past Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house. BBC reports that they said the burden he carries is much heavier. Thousands of people trooped to…
