Photo credit: Kyodo News The Japanese government on March 10 approved a Bill to amend the immigration control law to establish an online pre-entry screening system for overseas arrivals and significantly increase residence status application fees for foreigners. The Straits Times reports that the Cabinet-endorsed Bill will be submitted to the current Diet session, and if enacted,…
Photo credit: CBC Gas may rise buu eight cents per litre in Toronto starting this Wednesday, according to an analyst. CBC News reports that the spike at the rumps comes aa gas prices have been climbing higher and higher amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, leaving many Torontonians aggravated. A resident of Toronto, Scott Low, says…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Fourteen people died after a boat carrying irregular migrants collided with a Turkish coast guard vessel off the coast of Antalya in southern Turkey early Monday, the DHA news agency reported, citing the Turkish Coast Guard Command. Turkish Minute reports that the incident occurred off Finike, a district on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, after…
There is so much hunger in the land now. It’s so serious that we Yoruba, that were so proud that we would rather die than beg, are now comfortable with the beggars in our midst. Go to the eateries, you will find some people loitering around. They generally close in on you when you have…
The news that the British Government intends building a new facility at the famous Kirikiri Prisons is a great one. Kilo dun bi arun iba, what’s as good as fever! Our erstwhile colonial masters are always there for us. They know it that we don’t just have the means to take care of our teeming…
Sugar is used to sweeten things. However, when taken too much, it might cause hemorrhoids. According to stories being peddled around by those who knew him, the late Temitope Olatoye, a.k.a. sugar had always had it coming. He had attempted to be the students union president of the Federal College of Education in Osiele, a…
Traditional rulers used to hold all the aces in Africa, until their empires got defeated by other empires with much better means of coercion. But then, that was before the Europeans went into Africa. Indeed, the game changed with the advent of the Europeans who came with mirrors and guns. They even showed ordinary Africans…
