Photo credit: the independent Andy Burnham became the United Kingdom’s prime minister on Monday, the seventh in a decade. It followed Keir Starmer’s short stint of two years as Prime Minister. But it marks a shift in Labour’s centre of gravity, from top-down Westminster technocracy towards a politics of place, investment, and national renewal. For Washington and Brussels alike,…
Photo credit: Express Tribune The UN refugee agency announced Tuesday that 144 refugees and migrants have died or were missing after “tragic maritime incidents” off the coast of Mauritania. UPI reports that Matthew Saltmarsh, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in a press briefing that these lost were attempting the sea journey…
Photo credit: Australia Today It’s no news that young Australians are less religious than their parents and grandparents. Census data has shown a steady decline in religious affiliation for decades, particularly among Christians, who remain Australia’s largest faith group. SBS News reports that over the past years, there have been reports that seemed to point in…
Why is it that the Nigerian government always fails to recognise brilliant ideas when they see them? And people will be complaining of joblessness. Why will there be no joblessness. Governors, youth groups and even the army of unemployed peopleseem to have agreed on one idea but the people at the centre seem to have…
He was a Christian of the Catholic denomination. He actually nearly became a ‘Fada’. However, he dropped out of the junior seminary. He came from a family of teachers. His father was a school headmaster. They came from Abeokuta but settled in Ado Odo. He read Education(English) at Unilag. He was into student union politics…
I went to my farmland earlier this week, ready to see if one could put in some effort at reducing the food crisis being faced in Nigeria now. The farmland is government owned. I had called the farm officer intimating him of my plans to start working on the land again. So, when I got…
I can never ever get tired of writing about Itire. Although, at that time it could be termed a Woop Woop with reference to Lagos Island, the place was attractive for its memories. There was Komukomu the butcher. He was so successful that he even had some apprentices. In the morning till midday, he usually…
