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A former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, has been convicted of conspiring with drug traffickers and using his military and national police force to export cocaine to the United States. Associated Press reports that he was a federal court in the US convicted Hernandez. The charges carry a minimum of 40 years in prison…
Rights Advocates criticised President Joe Biden of the United States for referring to an undocumented immigrant as an “illegal”.He was accused of echoing the dehumanising rhetoric of his predecessor, Donald Trump. Rights advocates and progressive lawmakers have long condemned the use of the term “illegal” to refer to human beings who do not have immigration…
When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter a word. She would have her meal, and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would begin singing, Bamubamu la yoAwa o mo p’ebiNpo’mo…
I have known Ebute Meta since I started to sense my existence. In fact, I believe my mom has been taking me there since infancy. When I came into an awareness of my being, I was carried away by the well-laid streets, the street lamps, the clean gutters, the waste disposal system, and so on….
A long time ago, when the eyes were still on the knees. There was a woman who was then barren. The woman’s name was Olurombi. Meanwhile, childless women had been going to the Iroko tree to plead for children. When they went, they would pledge that if the Iroko gave them children they would…
Our people in Nigeria seem to have resigned to fate. I say this with a lot of distaste. Distaste because I just feel that under no circumstances, must a dislike for evil deeds should be stopped. But our people seem to have lost their voices. I’m referring specifically to the recent kidnap of over 200…
