Even in their worst nightmares, the eight Rwandans never imagined being in a worse dead-end than the one they were living in Arusha. Although they were acquitted or released years ago from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), no country wanted them. These famous stateless were no longer expecting much when suddenly they were given three days to pack their bags. Niger would take them in! But nothing went as planned…
The United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (UNIRMT) has obstructed Niger’s decision of chasing out eight Rwandans on its soil. They are categorized into those who were convicted by the UNIRMT for crimes of Genocide against the Tutsi and those that were acquitted. On November 15, 2021, the UNIRMT court signed an agreement […]
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The famous Mayflower School, Ikenne, was founded on strong principles of problem-solving, self-sufficiency, and humanism. Its founder, Dr. Tai Solarin, a renowned humanist and educationist established it in 1956. The ex-Mays (as the Mayflower alumni are called) who were around either when the late Solarin was actively teaching (at a time when William F. Kumuyi attended the school in the 1970s) or in his lifetime when he just patrolled the expansive school compound in his signature brown shirt, short pants, and hat to match (in the 1990s) will readily testify to the quality of education the school had to offer. What many do not know is the fact that at the time, Mayflower boasted of one of the largest communities of Ghanaians (and other Africans mostly refugees from war-torn Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, etc) which made it unique for its rigorous teaching, discipline, and moral aptitude. The Ghanaian teachers (and other non-teaching staff) found refuge and home in Solari