The main opposition party in Turkey has claimed significant election victories in Istanbul and Ankara. The results shocked the incumbent President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He had hoped to gain victory in the cities, and he led the campaign to win Istanbul. However, Ekrem Imamoglu scored a victory for the secular opposition CHP. Istanbul has a…
At times like this when we see people who have turned something that could have been embarrassing into an act of strength or courage we should sound the cymbals in their praise. I wouldn’t know where a blackmailer got the Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni’s nude photographs from. The fact is that the person contacted her…
Why is it that only a few Nigerian statesmen are getting it right? I just watched the API-organized ‘The Rush to Canada’ by Nigerians. The most pathetic thing was when one Dr Bassey, who represented Abike Dabiri, implied that if people in the northwest of Nigeria were not running away from the country – rather…
A chat with Olaitan Adesina, a griot, the convener of Naija Poets’ Collective, Author of Agidigbo, Symphony of Solitude and Afrocentric +++
In response to the recent terrorist attack on Moscow, the authorities in Russia have sanctioned raids on dormitories and apartments housing Central Asian migrants, and they are carrying out mass deportations. The Kyiv Independent reports that several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk on the evening of March 22. They killed…
