Sons of men who are Nigerians are a peculiar lot. They’re so peculiar that they can’t even organise elections for themselves. They need to call foreign observers. At the end of the day, hardly are the observers satisfied that the elections are free and fair. How can they? Most people are looking for their turn…
60 migrants were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea after their small fibreglass boat capsized before being rescued by a Doctors Without Bordes lifeboat. The Daily Mail reports that the migrants were fleeing Syria in the hope of reaching Europe. However, their boat got into difficulty and capsized on Saturday night. Luckily for them, a rescue…
The Finnish authorities are planning to limit asylum applications. Helsinki Times reports that the government has published a draft bill enabling it to deny entry to asylum seekers and significantly restrict the reception of asylum applications in circumstances where such measures are deemed necessary. The bill will be open for comments until March 25. Prime…
Insanity in sanity best describes the current state of Nigerian banks! Or how else does one describe the nonsense that has rendered whatever sense that could have been derived from the restructuring of banks. People who have money to withdraw now spend ages in the banks. It is either the internet servers are down or…
There’s been so much noise about the take home pay of members of the National Assembly. Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have expected people to be bothering their heads about whatever we do once they have already voted for us. In the first instance, didn’t we give them egunje before they grudgingly voted us in? The gratifications…
