From ABUJA AND JOS BY Dr. James C. Agazie

The Delta airline plane landed at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and I bid farewell to a group of fellow travellers I met on the plane: Bert Nwakamma flies from Atlanta to Abuja more often than I go to Wal-Mart on Hwy 85 Riverdale; Oputa, an attorney from Delta State shuttles between law offices in …

Thousands of undocumented migrants to get Italian work permits

Threatened by food shortages and health risks, Rome gives a six-month amnesty for thousands of undocumented migrants. Thousands of undocumented migrants will now be allowed to apply to temporarily stay and work in Italy under an amnesty announced as the country unveiled a $59.6bn stimulus package to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus. After …

Donald Trump: Africa is not the Owner of this Corpse By Pius Adesanmi

Africa and similes are now back in big business. Our friends in America’s punditry are all rushing to Africa for explanations of their current predicament. It does not happen here. It happens only in Africa. It happens only in the banana Republics of the Third World. He is like an African dictator. He is like …

Clear British government COVID19 policies

* 4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for the tuition they haven’t had and the accommodation they aren’t living in, can’t go to university. * A teacher can go to school with many 4 year olds that they are not related to but can’t see one 4 year …

Republican leaders have long tried to kill the U.S.P.S. Now the coronavirus is helping. By Casey Cep

For the past forty years, Republicans have been seeking to starve, strangle, and sabotage the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to privatize one of the oldest and most important public goods in American history.Photograph by Dan Brouillette / Bloomberg / Getty I am probably one of the least consequential things my mother has ever delivered. She …