Photo credit: the independent More than 100 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in a single boat have been rescued by the French coastguard after it broke down. Independent reports that the “taxi boat” was spotted travelling east along the coast towards Wimereux to pick up people during the early hours of Sunday morning. The…
Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so- called phantom coup. The adoption by all the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as late Bola Ige described the political parties of that…
If I had the opportunity, I would have asked the Nigerian President what happened during the lockdown to warrant easing it from next Monday. I would have even asked him if he had succeeded in getting an okay from COVID 19 that it must only strike at night. That would have informed his pronouncing a…
There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is actually the beginning for our thespians. The movies are actually doing a lot in reminding one of home. But, there is quite a few things to be…
photo credit: The Canadian Press A Toronto patient who has been living with HIV for 27 years is in remission – and potentially cured, according to his doctors – after a bone marrow transplant from a donor naturally resistant to the virus. The patient was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia in 2021 and needed a…
Photo credit: News.com.au Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume has clashed with Today host Sarah Abo in a tense interview over the Coalition’s new migration policy. The policy suggests Australia should discriminate against migrants fleeing autocracies because they are less likely to share “Australian values”. It was announced earlier this month by Opposition Leader Angus Taylor, who…
Photo credit: South China Post Malaysian immigration authorities say they have uncovered an Indonesian migrant-smuggling syndicate that moved people from sea crossings to a more elaborate route through Singapore and southern Thailand. The raid, carried out before dawn on Saturday at two major transport terminals in Kuala Lumpur, led to the arrest of 11 indonesians, including a suspected…
