Canadian dollar hits three-week high against US dollar
Photo credit: Reuters The Canadian dollar has found an unlikely pocket of strength just as…
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…
Canadian dollar hits three-week high against US dollar
Photo credit: Reuters The Canadian dollar has found an unlikely pocket of strength just as the trade relationship with the United States is becoming more confrontational. On September 8, the loonie touched C$1.3790, or 72.52 US cents. The move came as Ottawa’s new counter-tariffs took effect and Washington prepared fresh restrictions on Canadian goods. Investing reports…
14 men go on trial in Paris over deadliest small-boat Channel crossing
Photo credit: BBC Fourteen men have gone on trial in Paris over the deaths of at least 31 people in the worst mass drowning from a small-boat crossing in the Channel on record. The Guardian reports that the accused men, alleged to be linked to people-smuggling networks, face charges including manslaughter and facilitating illegal immigration…
Clinics are closing down in Sudan, aid groups warn
Photo credit: Arab News An additional three dozen health facilities serving more than 400,000 people in Sudan are closing this year due to global aid cuts, worsening a dire humanitarian situation in a country torn by more than three years of war, aid groups said Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that the cuts come to…
28B – Adewale Sobowale
28b, how can I ever forget you? Was it not in you I spent childhood? I can still remember the adults drinking lager when I was a toddler. Mind you, it would be after the day’s work. Olori or Baba or Baba Wa was so generous. He never discriminated. I can remember Luke, the Igbo…
‘Asewo to re Mecca’ – Adewale Sobowale
A Nollywood movie titled ‘Asewo to re Mecca’ was acted by Toyin Adegbola, Sola Sobowale and others. The point of discussion is, however, not the movie. It’s the announcement that the Edo State government wants to give computer training to ‘repentant’ yahoo boys. Hmm.. This could be a positive development if handled forthrightly. However, if…
Oyinbo o l’Adie Irana! Rights of Passage!! – Adewale Sobowale
So, Queen Elizabeth passed away yesterday. If the Europeans are doing their alakori akada and inferring they couldn’t lose their Queen and lose their money, what about we Africans that were colonized by the Europeans. Most of us are members of the British Commonwealth. We must show our Africanness! In the first instance, the Windsor…
