Photo credit: Aljazeera Nine out of ten of the world’s most neglected displaced people are in Africa.. The Norwegian Refugee Council’s annual report says Burkina Faso is leading the table for the second consecutive year. Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Niger, Honduras, South Sudan, the Central Arab Republic, Chad and Sudan follow it. Jan Egeland,…
Photo credit: Vanguard It was a long day in Nigeria as the main labour unions—the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress—began a nationwide strike on Monday. They effectively shut down the beleaguered nation, sealing the national grid and disrupting strikes because they could not negotiate a new minimum wage with the government. The…
Photo credit: Punch The English language is very interesting. It is for its sarcasm. Most of us for whom it is a second language are not aware of this intricacy. For instance, some nations are described as ‘developing’ nations. In most cases, these are African and Asian nations. One thing that is common to this…
Photo credit: Nairaland Informed rumours say the model schools in Ogun state will cost pupils four hundred thousand naira per term. That is a whopping one million, two hundred thousand naira per session. Hmmm! Now, I see the reason why the state government did not bother to develop the infrastructure of the older schools. Will…
Ilu Oyinbo has disappointed me! Could you believe it? A power outage has caused most of the essential services to pack up. It came around 7am. I was just having a late nap jejely, pretending to read a book. I then noticed the lights had gone off. What’s so oyinboish about ilu Oyinbo? Common light…
Photo credit: iStock Mo gbin’la mi s’oko,Mo gb’oka s’oko!Ewure aboki fi je,Aguntan aboki fi je!Kil’aboki pe mo se,Emi o m’oun o pe mo se! While we sleep,Fodio’s children come,Bulls in tow,Machine gun galore! That to make,Unrepentanly innocent-Murder, rape, burning-Brains reset! Too late for some,Survivors plan,While they mourn,Mallam’s bull to buy! Learnt nothing,Forgotten nothing!Genocide looming,Alright we…
Photo credit: USNi News Which state, in Nigeria, is not feeling the impact of killers? Isn’t it a pity that a country with so much hope in terms of manpower, climate, soil, mineral resources, etc is now a pariah among the committee of nations? And, thanks to the filthy administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari….
