Ireland’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee has said the Irish government will introduce some measures that will favour asylum seekers from unsafe countries. Irish Independent reports that those in that category will be processed through a fast-tracked international protection system. That step will be part of a further clampdown on record levels of immigration. The plan…
When some descendants of migrants who are now citizens of foreign countries and happen to be in government talk, one wonders where their sense of history is. So it is with Kemi Badenoch, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade. When addressing financial bosses at TheCityUK’s international conference in London last week, Badenoch…
Just a preamble about the topic. For those who lived in Lagos, Nigeria in the sixties and early seventies, there used to be a bakery on Ojuelegba Road almost close to Yaba called “De facto Bakery.” There, they baked arguably the most delicious bread and cakes, at that time, in Lagos. I wouldn’t know how…
The construction phase will create 5,239 jobs. The project itself will create about 19,000 jobs! That’s Amazon! The country is South Africa!! Amazon has picked South Africa as the place to be!!! I don’t know why top-notch companies are deserting Nigeria. We have everything to keep investors asking for more. Our rate of kidnapping is…
To say the pandemic has greatly affected our globe is an understatement of the year. People have died, economies have collapsed, the social lives of people have been distorted, most jobs are being done virtually, and a lot have lost their jobs. But that’s not the issue I’m dwelling on here! How many people know…
When we look around us, it’s tough for some to determine whether it’s the Nigerian government or the people we can call abiku! And those reading my scribblings could bet my conclusion is the people. I don’t understand why we must be so much entangled, like an umbilical cord, to the aprons of the so-called…
Today is very symbolic. It is because, throughout the Christian world, the death of the Reason for the Trinity is being celebrated. In the Christian world, that is! Now, I wouldn’t bore you with the coming of the Saviour, neither would I waste your time with why He had to die on a cross like…
