Toronto gets $25M donation to establish new model for tackling homelessness!
Photo credit: CBC A philanthropic organization says it’s donating $25 million to establish a new system…
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…
Toronto gets $25M donation to establish new model for tackling homelessness!
Photo credit: CBC A philanthropic organization says it’s donating $25 million to establish a new system for tackling homelessness in Toronto that will use an evidence-based approach to move people off the streets and into supportive housing. Toronto Today reports that the Slaight Family Foundation says the money will go to a St Michael’s Hospital research centre,…
The migrants in the ancient forest (contd)
Photo credit: VICE It was in the summer of 2021 that people from Somalia, Iraq, Syria, and other countries with ongoing conflicts began showing up in the Polish woods. Many had children with them. They entered at the Belarusian border, through perhaps the world’s most politically engineered migration trade route. Months earlier, Aleksandr Lukashenko, the…
Boat capsizes off Libya …
Photo credit: Daily Sabah Emergency teams recovered victims after a migrant boat capsized off the coast near Derma, in Libya. Africa News reports that the incident once again underscores the dangers of the Central Mediterranean migration route. Saleh Jumaa Al-Mahjoub, a member of the Libyan Red Crescent, said 12 bodies have been recovered so far in the Qasr Al-Akhyar and Ghanima…
The General – Adewale Sobowale
The Egbas are celebrating the Lisabi festival today. Actually, it has been a week long affair culminating in today’s grand finale. I gather a visit will be made to the Lisabi forest, the men’s cult, oro will come out and when it comes out, women must be indoors. T’obinrin ba foju k’oroOro a gbe. A…
Stock Exchange – Adewale Sobowale
There is a new vogue among males and a few females now. I mean our youth and quite a number of the elderly. A big investor in the new vogue, when he was interviewed by journalists, called it the new stock exchange for the masses. A participant says it is better than oil and gas….
A Cow’s Diary! – Adewale Sobowale
We enjoyed some respite yesterday. The sons of men said they were celebrating a festival. Lisabi Festival! It was a really grand event. Early in the morning, they went to the grove where they offered the annual sacrifice. They later went to the palace for merriment. However, one outstanding practice that we cows noticed was…
Humane Government! – Adewale Sobowale
The kindness of the Nigerian government has been reinforced with the donation of a whopping $1 milion dollars to Afghanistan. Mind you, it wasn’t donated to the United Nations, Unicef or the Red Cross. Rather, the small amount of money was donated to the Taliban Government of the country. We should all give kudos to…
