Current Affairs

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  • Immigration in Europe and America

    Illegal migration is not a new argument, the US and Europe have been struggling with arguments concerning illegal migration for generations, but the mass movement of people has intensified the political and national arguments of states. Britain, a country with a large migrant population is determined to find an argument that challenges the illegal migrants…

  • The run up to the elections in Russia

    In March, Putin stands for re-election, it is almost certain that he will win. He has been polling at sixty percent and the nearest opposition, which is the Communist Party is polling at four percent. Of course there was Prigozhin who polled at six percent before he and his entourage were killed, but there is…

  • Censorship and the crisis in Gaza

    Thousands of column inches have been written about the war in Gaza, but underneath these columns is a darker murkier argument that is coming to play in both Israel and the West. It is the argument of censorship and how this censorship has played out in the West, as well as within academia, the arts…

  • Four days to find an answer

    Fifty seats will be taken out of two hundred and twenty tomorrow. The sadness of those sitting down to eat will not be lost on the families around them waiting for a loved one to take their seat. Of course the sadness will be tinged by some relief, but there will also be 170 seats…

  • It all leads to politics

    Every little argument in this report is linked to the growth of off-campus street affiliates of the fraternities that were created in the Universities of Nigeria. The confraternities recruit their membership from the unemployed youth, out of school children and secondary school students. The results are that these groups are active in whatever they are…

  • Gang culture and the politician Part 2

    Gang culture for the politicians in Nigeria is an expensive business, they need the gangs to secure their electoral campaign. There are so many arguments about whether the politicians involved in elections offer their voices to the people and fight for the concerns of their community, especially when the system is so corrupt. But the…