Photo credit: AP News At first glance, the Balmy Hotel looks like any other on the tropical Island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging beyond a mahogany reception desk. The Associated Press reports that the hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking…
Photo credit: the Zimbabwean A South Africa-based non-profit organization led by a Zimbabwean citizen has launched a legal challenge in a Pretoria court seeking to hold both the Zimbabwean and South African governments accountable for alleged constitutional violations, human rights abuses and the migration crisis affecting the region. The main applicant, the African Diaspora Global Network, an…
The fact that they’ve never met in person did not stop them from working together and producing the children’s book titled Wayne & Chrissy’s Tea Leaves Adventures. The book is available on Amazon.
In the not-too-far-away days of childhood, I used to treasure May 27. The day was children’s day! I used the past tense deliberately. Then, we were as innocent as lambs. Although we had heard of gbomogbomo (kidnappers), none of us had ever experienced being ferried away in broad daylight. Little did we know that n ot only gbomogbomo but gbagbagbagba (“adultnappers”) would soon…
When I was much younger, there was, opposite the then Leventis Stores in Marina, Lagos what was known as Quay Side. True, it was a place where ships berthed and sailors did sailor-like pastimes of womanising, smoking Indian hemp, drinking – sometimes to a stupor, those of them that wanted to listen and even dance…
Are we not tired of being dribbled here, there and beyond by unskilled footballers manifesting as our crude politicians? Yes, crude, very crude! Was it not in the last elections that people were bribed with kulikuli and gari. That could be interpreted in various ways. First, the bulk of Nigerians are so cheap that they…
Photo credit: Reuters US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration is drawing up plans to stop processing international travellers and cargo at major US airports in “sanctuary cities” that have declined to cooperate with an immigration crackdown. The Telegraph online reports that the move could effectively halt international air travel and commerce at major…
