Oro festival! – Adewale Sobowale

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…

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Israel blocks Palestinians from Mosque!

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…

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42 arrested for human smuggling!

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….

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