Asylum seekers will be required to pay back 10,000 pounds of what the taxpayer spends on supporting them, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce on Tuesday. Daily Mail reports that the cash could be deducted from their pay cheques in monthly instalments once they get a job, similar to a student loan. However, serious doubts…
With just seven minutes left on the clock, an 80,000-strong crowd at Sydney’s Stadium Australia huddled under ponchos, watching the Socceroos struggle in the rain against Iraq.https://youtu.be/PFuteUTSB-c?si=jSH3jzZGctV1NfjG SBS News reports that Australia desperately needed to score. At stake was a spot in the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals. In the 83rd minute, midfielder Mark Bresciano clipped in…
The federal government has decided that members of the National Youth Service Corps should be enjoying the services of the National Health Insurance Scheme whenever any of them needs medical treatment. This is another milestone for the government. The NYSC was established in 1973. But since it was founded nobody had ever thought of making…
This week, I’ve read several posts from people I hold in high esteem expressing their frustration with the Nigerian government. In fact, most of them called for a coup d’etat. While a coup could have served two purposes, one, pay Mr Mohammed Buhari back in his own coins for torpedoing a democratically elected government on…
So, we’re all infuriated with some allegation of abuse. We should be! But then, isn’t it a case of, oku n sunkun oku, that is the dead mourning the dead? I say so because if we really look at it, which Nigerian can truthfully say they are enjoying in this country. Save those who are…
Photo credit: Global News Toronto’s annual Pride Parade took place Sunday, drawing crowds of partygoers as the city simultaneously basks in FIFA World Cup 2026 excitement. Global News reports that Prime Minister Mark Carney joined the parade briefly with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow shaking hands and taking selfies with the roaring crowds lining Yonge Street. As he marched, Carney…
Photo credit: CNN For months, antti-migrant rhetoric had been building across |South Africa. Then it reached Kaunga Nyireda’s doorstep. CNN World reports that in early June, two men gave the Malawian gardener, who lives in a Johannesburg suburb, a chilling ultimatum: leave now or face death. “They asked me: When are you going to leave the country? We…
