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The Yoruba have a wisecrack for everything. One of them is if it takes one ages to get mad, when will the person display it? Not to ask of when they’ll be cured. Nigeria remains a comedy of errors. In the first instance, the governor of the state of aquatic splendor where Christians went to…
Just thought I should make it clear that I really don’t care where the political actors come from as far as they are picked democratically. One thing that even those who are educated among us choose not to understand is the fact that at the end of the day where a politician comes from doesn’t…
That some communities in Lagos have had the Oro festival thrusted on them is no news. The Oro festival is usually arranged with the cooperation of the traditional ruler of a community. Most of the traditional rulers in Lagos state are educated. Even if they could lay some claims to being educated, methinks their patriotism…
Eight months after Nigeria placed sanctions on Niger because the army seized power in the country, Mr Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s President, has lifted the restrictions. Tinubu, the chairman of the regional bloc ECOWAS, led the bloc in demanding that the junta step down. A warning that the bloc could use military strength to dislodge putschists…
Israeli authorities have further tightened restrictions for Palestinians travelling to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. They have thereby added to the mounting tensions. AlJazeera reports that despite the restrictions, 80,000 worshippers still made it to the holy site for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan. However, thousands of Palestinians were not allowed to…
An organised gang which allegedly specialized in smuggling migrants has been smashed by the Romanian Border Police, supported by Europol and involving the Bulgarian General Directorate Combating Organized Crime and the German Police. Eurasiareview reports that the group was allegedly smuggling migrants from Bulgaria to Romania, across the Danube River and then towards Western Europe….
