Photo credit: Euractiv Protests for the right to housing took place throughout Portugal on Saturday, with hundreds taking to the streets of Lisbon with their banners and a completely understandable sense of outrage. The Resident reports that in Aveiro, Barreiro, Benavente, Braga, Coimbra, Covilha, Faro, Funchal, Lagos, Leiria, Ponta Delgada, Portalegre, Porto, Vila Nova de Santo…
Photo credit: the Globe and Mail Canadians living abroad are calling for increased turnout among overseas voters and arguing that barriers to casting a ballot could be affecting election results. Timothy Veale, the director of Grits Abroad – an organizatioin aimed at connecting Canadian Liberal voters living worldwide – said nearly five million Canadians live outside…
Photo credit: Yahoo News Families of asylum seekers whose claims are rejected have been offered up to 10,000 pounds per person, capped at four per family, to voluntarily leave the UK if they accept the offer within one week. The I Paper reports that Danish immigration experts said a similar offer in their country has…
I guess it was Naeto that sang a song that became the poem of the time, titled ‘kini big deal?’, (what’s the result of all the hassles?) Is it not a song that suits these times? These are times when it has been vividly proved that the average Nigerian will do anything to get money….
When we invited Bill Gates to the Special Expanded Economic Council Meeting, we didn’t know he was going to be saying all those things that are not in the least palatable to us. We thought he would, at least, give us some modicum of respect. Does he attend economic council meetings in the White House?…
Mr Buhari’s so-called address on COVID 19 is a very interesting one. In the first instance, if according to sources, the address is twenty-three seconds long, that would be almost equal to the number of COVID 19 cases reported in Nigeria as at Sunday morning which is thirty. In the address, the president actually highlights…
