Photo credit: the Cable Igboro o r’erinSo, so tightFail to solve withinLook for help abroad! Just as maluJourneys abroadOnly to returnAs corn beef! Fail we to see futilityOf forced unityWe’re goaded onWith machine gun! Forced to signUnrepresentative constitutionThat’s our problemSpit out like phlegm! From PDPPapa Deceive PikinTo APCA banned drug! Need we new worthFrom new…
Photo credit: ECOWAS The Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have started the process of proffering finding solutions to issues of protection of refugees, stateless, displaced persons and asylum seekers in the sub-region. This Day reports that this cheering news was disclosed during the opening of…
Photo credit: VOA For the first time in 30 years, the ruling party in South Africa, African National Congress, is set to fall short of a majority of the votes cast after national elections. This marks the biggest political shift in the country. The party which of the respected Nelson Mandela had 41.04 % of…
Photo credit: Chorister I utterly fail to understand the problem of my people. So, Nigeria’s return to the old national anthem is now a hard nut to crack for us. We have failed to see the inherent values in the change. The legislators saw them, that’s why the bill was passed in arguably a record…
Things men do;E’en when they do-Sleep will neverEver be tethered! Remembering Basorun Gbada;Who not only battered;Our fine economy;Into a ponmonomy! His unrelenting abracadabra;A unique democratia;Strong as a rope;Ends in a mope! Endless killings;Always fleecing;Turning us to mumu;Easy preys for voodoo! Disloyal to a fault;Journalist bomb burnt;His cup overfilled;With lots of spit! Like malgovernment;And annulment! His…
Photo credit: Punch Back to the issue of government involving itself in religious affairs. Kilo dun bi arun iba! For a government to rule well, it must be an octopus with its tentacles in everything. If it could be planned well, the governors and president should be made to head all the religious bodies. We…
Photo credit: the conversation Authorities in the United States are planning to send some migrants from Latin America for settlement in Greece and Italy. CBS reports that this is a way of discouraging people in the region from travelling to the US/Mexico border. The plan would involve Greece and Italy welcoming migrants processed at Immigration…
