Libya and Tunisia beg Europe…

Photo credit: Lybia update Libya and Tunisia have urged European countries to increase their assistance to enable them to tackle the migration crisis effectively. They said this when representatives from 28 African and European countries met in Tripoli to discuss ways to address irregular migration.  in his opening address at the Trans-Mediterranean Forum, the Prime…

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38 migrants arrested in Tunisia…

Photo credit: Euractiv Thirty-eight African migrants have been arrested in Tunisia after fighting with coastguards who intercepted their boat. The migrants were trying to sail to Europe. Barron’s reports that the migrants were said to have attacked a coastguard who had tried to stop them from setting off from the coast of Sfax, Tunisia’s main…

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Dancing – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: CLi studios I don’t know why people will always insist I must dance. Physically, I’m almost as tall as a standard goal post. It is therefore not easy, if not totally impossible for me to subject myself to the orgasmic contortions dancers go into. Again, my mother hardly danced. My grandparents were great…

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Honourable Decision! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times On the 8th of February, 2014, the BBC news reported that Mike Harper, the immigration minister of the U.K. had resigned from the government after it emerged that his cleaner did not have permission to work in the U.K.. He resigned despite the fact that investigations did not show that he…

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Excuse Me! – Adewale Sobowale

I couldn’t help myself this morning. Those who know me would have realized I’m a hen as far as dancing is concerned. A kii r’ijo l’ese adie! However, I surprised myself this morning. I danced! Yeah, I did!! What happened? I was playing Fela Kuti’s ‘Je nwi t’emi’, on YouTube. I couldn’t, but dance. In…

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The OBJ Letter! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the conversation Having perused the letter, I didn’t see anything Dr Olusegun Obasanjo wrote that’s new to Nigerians. The only thing that is rather new is his belief that government belongs to the people, ‘We need unity of purpose and nationally accepted strategic roadmap that will not change with whims and caprices of…

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