Photo credit: the Boston Globe FIFA president Gianni Infantino has confirmed that Iran will play their World Cup games in the United States as scheduled as football’s power-brokers met in Vancouver on Thursday. RTHK.HK reports that Iran’s participation at this year’s World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States has been shrouded in uncertainty since the eruption…
IIndians have become Australia’s largest migrant group, overtaking the English for the first time amid ongoing pushback against migrants. Independent reports that data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has revealed that at least 971,020 India-born people were living in Australia as of 30 June 2025. They make up roughly 5.2 per cent of…
Photo credit: the Canadian Times Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she’s accountable after a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official was granted a visa. The Canadian Press however reports that she says she didn’t know about the decision made by her department. Online news outlet Iran International reported Monday that Iranian Football Federation president Mehdi Taj…
The two central labour unions in Nigeria are demanding a minimum wage of of fifty six thousand naira. Brilliant, isn’t it? When we look at the profligacy of the ruling class, the working class deserves much more. A faction is even asking for ninety thousand naira. Yes, labour deserves the key to the central bank!…
The ever philosophical Yoruba have a saying that, ‘Ori yeye ni mogun, taise lo po’. This roughly translates to, ‘so many are punished unjustly’. I congratulate Zainab Aliyu immensely for having an influential father. If her father had not been amongst the formidable wheeler-dealers of society, she would most probably have ended up on the…
Photo credit: BBC Anti-immigration protests intensified in Johannesburg on Wednesday, as hundreds of South Africans marched against undocumented migrants and called for stricter enforcement of immigration laws. Face2FaceAfrica reports that the rally followed similar demonstrations a day earlier in Pretoria, signalling a growing, coordinated push by anti-immigration groups pressing authorities to tighten enforcement and carry out large-scale…
