European nations agree to consider weakening protections for migrants …
Photo credit: AP News As sympathy for immigrants erodes around the world, European nations agreed on Wednesday to consider changes that rights advocates say would weaken migrant protections that have underpinned European law since WWII. The AP reports that the consensus coalesced as mainstream political parties across Europe have adopted tougher migration policies as a way to blunt…
Traffickers use videos of women to entice asylum seekers!
Photo credit: CNN People traffickers are posting promotional videos featuring innocent young British women flirting to entice male migrants to go to Britain. Daily Mail reports that clips of the women posted without their consent are being used by criminal gangs to advertise their services, providing irregular migration routes to the UK and Europe, it…
Why coups keep succeeding in West Africa! by Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Guardian In much of West Africa, democracy survives not because citizens defend it, but because soldiers occasionally tolerate it. And you can take that to the bank because it is the brutal truth behind the region’s expanding map of military rule. from Mali to Niger, Burkina Faso to Guinea, coup-makers do not need tanks…
My Concerns! – Adewale Sobowale
My long drawn agitation on the Sowore issue is not only for him. Rather, it’s for all those who are being subjected to the deprivation of their human rights throughout the world. By the way, I’m not too sure Nigeria celebrated human rights day two days ago. I mean what’s there to celebrate when the…
Could We Postpone This Christmas? – Adewale Sobowale
I don’t know what’s happening in your own locality. However, I just can’t see any preparations for Christmas in my own area A long while ago, when I was a tot. I used to count the months and the days leading to D-day. Christmas was odun kekere, and the New Year was odun nla. I…
Afghan asylum seekers rape 15-year-old!
Photo credit: The Guardian The day of reckoning came for Jan Jahanzeb and fellow Afghan Israr Niazal as they were jailed for the rape they committed last May. Daily Mail reports that the boys, both 17, raped a 15-year-old girl around Midlands Park A day after the rape, Jahaneb was in the park without a care…