Burglar breaks into refugee neighbor’s unit!
Photo credit: RNZ A refugee in New Zealand has had her apartment broken into by…
Biden under knocks!
Rights Advocates criticised President Joe Biden of the United States for referring to an undocumented immigrant as an “illegal”.He was accused of echoing the dehumanising rhetoric of his predecessor, Donald Trump. Rights advocates and progressive lawmakers have long condemned the use of the term “illegal” to refer to human beings who do not have immigration…
BAM BAM L’AYO! WE’RE OVERFED!! – Adewale Sobowale
When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter a word. She would have her meal, and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would begin singing, Bamubamu la yoAwa o mo p’ebiNpo’mo…
Israeli attacks on Palestinian aid seekers continue
Israel has not relented in its efforts to fire Palestinian civilians. Al Jazeera reports that its cameras captured some Israeli forces firing a crowd of Palestinians awaiting aid distribution at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City. The attack is noted to be the second since yesterday. It is also reported that an Israeli air attack…
US judge blocks new immigration law in Texas
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration enforcement effort. U.S. District Judge David Ezra’s preliminary injunction pausing a law that…
Lords checkmate Rwanda plan!
The U.K.’s Upper House has passed five amendments on the Rwanda bill. If the amendments are ratified, it would make it harder for the lower house to declare Rwanda a “safe” country. It would therefore require the government to comply with domestic and in international laws. The amendments would also severely affect the main purpose…
Sheffield United 0-6 Arsenal; Match Report
A breathless, brutal display of attacking football saw us equal our record away win the Premier League for the second time in a matter of weeks. Following a 6-0 win at West Ham late last month, and a 5-0 hammering of Burnley in our last away league game, we were at it again at Bramall…
Nigerians deploy different strategies to survive as economic hardship kontinu to bite
Di rising cost of living dey push Nigerians to di point wey be say dem no know wetin to do again. Wit inflation wey don almost hit di highest in thirty years for January, almost half of di population dey live inside poverty now. Di money wey dem dey earn dey below $1 a day….
Trump’s claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data
When Donald Trump speaks at the southern border in Texas on Thursday, you can expect to hear him talk about “migrant crime,” a category he has coined and defined as a terrifying binge of criminal activity committed by undocumented immigrants spreading across the country. “You know, in New York, what’s happening with crime is it’s…
Burglar breaks into refugee neighbor’s unit!
Photo credit: RNZ A refugee in New Zealand has had her apartment broken into by a neighbor. RNZ reports that the burglar proceeded to sell almost everything of the little she had in her Auckland home. Among the items stolen were her late father’s watch, a treasured memento of his, and one of the few possessions she owned….
Migrant crisis costs each N.Y. taxpayer $215!
Photo credit: New York Post The migrant crisis in New York could cost each of the state’s 10.7 million taxpayers an average of $215, according to an analysis by the campaign of GOP state Senate candidate Gina Arena. The New York Post reports that the state needs some $2.3 billion to house and care for…
Restauranteurs fined for committing offence against migrant workers!
Photo credit: Shutterstock The owners of an Italian restaurant in New Plymouth were fined $60,000 for an “insidious” that involved charging one migrant worker $16,000 just to get a job, then charging him an hourly rate because they said the minimum wage was too high. Stuff reports that the Labour Inspectorate received a complaint from an…
Could we have some peace? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Ocean Property We won’t need fireworks;With various wars;Every day getting worse;In our crazy wild world: Year approaching embers;Climaxing last second December;If we’re lucky;We’ll get turkey: Otherwise;We’ll be war-weary! Conflicts –heretherenear, andhither: Farms are vandalized;Homes are ravaged:People out to refugeedom –When not sent into martyrdom –Into lands where they might get freedom: In those…
Apapa! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Intels I came across an old friend on fb sometime last week. He was actually the operations director in a company where i was the admin/corporate affairs manager. Then i had an accident. Although my friend is an Asian, his family stood by me. Left to that family, i would have had the…
Did We Waste Them? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Punch If Fela had been alive, he ought to have been seventy nine today. I mean our own Fela would have been seventy nine years old today. He lived his life struggling. Indeed, the struggle, our struggle, was his life. Good enough, he did not walk the treacherous way alone. He did…
Abami Eda! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Arise News A leta to Fela!! Dear Baba 70, I wan jollifficate with you on your eightieth birthday. You know say all de tins wey you sing about still dey happen for Nigeria, even Africa. Dem com dey yarn say you be prophet. Dem no know say na angel you be. Sebi dem…
