EUROPE

Will a Brexit leave millions of migrants behind?
By Toby Melville

Alfio Emanuele Fresta, a 21-year-old student at England’s University of York, came to the U.K. from Sicily in 2013, hoping to build a life in a country he thought of as welcoming, diverse and filled with opportunities in his chosen discipline: computer science. “I wasn’t aware of a referendum. I wasn’t aware of the possibility of a referendum,” he says. “From what I knew at the time, EU nationals were treated equally everywhere in the EU, equally to British citizens in Britain. I quickly found out that this isn’t always the case.”

OPINION

Students living under the barrel - of death

By Odimegwu Onwumere

Odimegwu Onwumere

Many students across the country have met their deaths inconveniently. And the schools are gradually turning to a killing field. They have either died as a result of cult related matters, shot by the Police, flogged to death or through something menacingly. A-number-of the killings take place in broad day light, while others at night. To Nigerians, the tragedies are irony to the victims who never expected that their lives would be logged out when they never expected.

EUROPE

Why Brussels? There are too many reasons

On Friday morning in Brussels, police sirens screamed throughout the capital as officers raced to hunt down the suspects behind the devastating March 22 bombings. On that Tuesday morning, two explosions ripped through Brussels airport, bringing the roof down on fleeing travelers and killing 11 people. An hour later, a bomb exploded on a train leaving Maalbeek station for the city center. This proved the most deadly attack, killing 20 people

OPINION

“Made in China” education drives Nigerians to study overseas

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Many Nigerians have unnerved views that the education industry is supposed to be one of the biggest industries in the country. If the successive governments have harnessed the industry very well, it stands to earn the country billions of naira per annum.

OPINION

CSR: Companies entice journalists but prefer social media

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

There is ongoing debate among stakeholders of industries that corporations should necessitate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a business necessity. The argument hinges on the fact that corporations should become socially conscious, but the media have a great role to play on how the CSR business is heralded to the world.

PRESS STATEMENT

Press statement delivered at a press conference by the all progressives congress, APC, Rivers State chapter held at the state party secretariat, 43 forces avenue, port harcourt on monday, 21stmarch, 2016.

OPINION & SOCIETY

Niger Delta: Ogoniland cleanup & setting agenda for peace & development
By Fegalo Nsuke

The Nigerian government has not hidden its penchant for the Ogoni oil. In alliance with The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, an affiliate of Shell International, the government has in the past deployed very brutish and repressive techniques to force the Ogoni people to submission and gain access to the oilfields it abandoned some 20 years ago.