Home Office accused of turning ‘blind eye to discrimination’ in housing immigration crackdown

The Home Office has been accused of turning a “blind eye to discrimination” after rejecting its own inspector’s call to investigate a “racist” scheme targeting private housing tenants. Support groups have reacted with fury after ministers quietly threw out recommendations designed to address widespread criticism of the crackdown, which makes landlords responsible for immigration checks. …

An Excellent Case for Buhari’s Second Term By Pius Adesanmi

Two Buharideens, two separate threads far apart, going on simultaneously. Unbeknownst to the other, each make exactly the same case for Buhari. I decide to be a quiet monitoring spirit, following with interest. They make what on the surface is a perfectly logical and sensible submission for another four years for Buhari. I listen in …

Kidnapped as Schoolgirls by Boko Haram: Here They Are Now by NYT

In April 2014, more than 200 girls were kidnapped from a school in Nigeria. The world responded: #BringBackOurGirls. Boko Haram dressed them in dark gowns and head coverings, broadcasting the images to the world the following month. Four years later, more than a hundred of them have been freed. The New York Times met and …

2019: WHY I DECLARED INTENTIONS NOW- PRESIDENT BUHARI

President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he declared his intentions to run for another term in office on Monday, April 9, 2018, during the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Receiving the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby in London Wednesday, President Buhari said: "I declared before leaving home …

‘Serious flaws’ in UK immigration system, Law Society warns

PA Bad immigration decisions are having a "devastating" effect on families and businesses and undermining the rule of law, solicitors have warned. Nearly half of decisions that go to appeal in England and Wales are overturned, suggesting the system is "serious flawed", the Law Society said. And, the group added, it needed to be fixed …