Photo credit: National Post Ontario must pay social assistance benefits to a foreign migrant living illegally in Canada, a tribunal has ruled in a case revealing that welfare intake workers did not conduct an immigration check of the applicant to avoid jeopardizing his ability to remain in Canada. The National Post reports that the Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal…
Kizito Egeonu must have graduated from the University of Jos. He was a 400 level medical student in 2009. That year must have been a happy one for him, too. That was when he won the unbelievable sum of a million dollars in a promo. I didn’t say a million naira. He won a million…
There are some really thoughtful sayings in the English language that will make a person think that maybe the English borrowed them from the ever beautiful Yoruba language. One of them is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is described as an axpression to needlessly self-destructive over reaction to a particular problem….
I can remember someone on a campaign for the 2nd Republic ruling party in Nigeria then saying about a rival who was a vegetarian that, in the confines of his home, he ate meat more than a wolf. The man later became our hope for 1993, but eventually, the president that never was. I also…
Photo credit: NPR US President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Saturday after the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei saw open calls for his killing, further underlining the tension gripping the Mideast as an interim deal to end the war buckles under repeated crossfire in the region. The Associated Press reports that Trump commented on social…
Photo credit: Reuters Displacement dynamics in Iraq are undergoing a structural shift, as war-driven migration steadily recedes while environmental stress, especially escalating water scarcity, is becoming a long-term driver of population movement. Despite official claims of declining irregular migration and ongoing returns from displacement camps and abroad, climate pressures and upstream water politics are reshaping internal mobility patterns…
