Special Reports

Market Basket In for long Haul … as Defiant Employees Vow to Fight on

August 6, 2014 Comments Off on Market Basket In for long Haul … as Defiant Employees Vow to Fight on

Salem Massachusetts – By Emman Okuns. The standoff between the current management of Market Basket Supermarket and its employees over the termination of beloved Chief Executive Officer, Arthur T Demoulas does not appear to be going away any sooner. As it enters the second week, aggrieved and protesting workers and sympathetic customers have vowed to fight on, until Arthur T …

U.S. Human Rights Group Berates Mass. Museum of Fine Arts … Demands Return of Looted Benin Artifacts

August 1, 2014 Comments Off on U.S. Human Rights Group Berates Mass. Museum of Fine Arts … Demands Return of Looted Benin Artifacts

Nearly one year following the controversial opening of Benin Kingdom Gallery by the Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the original owners of the priceless treasures are not giving up the fight for the return of their cultural inheritance. Edo United for Homeland Empowerment, a Human rights group, with headquarters in Boston Massachusetts is demanding the return by MFA …

Row Over Edo State-Financed Taxi Cabs Scheme: Beneficiaries Fault Leasing Firm … Plan Mass Protest to State House

July 28, 2014 Comments Off on Row Over Edo State-Financed Taxi Cabs Scheme: Beneficiaries Fault Leasing Firm … Plan Mass Protest to State House

Benin city, Edo State, Nigeria – By Oluwafemi Oladipo When Edo state Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, announced the ban of commercial motorcycle operations popularly called ‘’Okada’’ in some areas of the state following security concerns, the excruciating impact of the decision on the lives of majority of ordinary people of the state knew no bounds. Less than five days was given …