Toronto Public Health identifies first 2 cases of mpox variant
Photo credit: Toronto Today The first two cases of a variant of mpox – formerly known 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…
Toronto Public Health identifies first 2 cases of mpox variant
Photo credit: Toronto Today The first two cases of a variant of mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – have been identified in Toronto and Ontario, according to Toronto Public Health (TPH). Toronto Today reports that the two new travel-related mpox cases are from the clade lb variant, compared to the llb strain, which was previously the only…
Cuban doctors to leave Guyana
Photo credit: Jamaica Observer Cuban officials are preparing to withdraw the nation’s medical brigade from Guyana after it decided to provide full salaries to doctors and nurses from the island, rather than sending most of the funds to the Cuban government. The Gleaner reports that Cuban doctors have worked in African, South American and Caribbean…
Common types of investment scams
Fake GICs Fraydsters may offer you phony Guaranteed Investment Certificates posing as a legitimate product from a regulated financial institution. Watch for promises of high interest rates, pressure to act fast and payment via wire transfer or cryptocurrency. Crypto and trading platform scams Fraudsters may contact you about investing in unregulated platforms or fake crypto investments through a fake trading app…
Undiables! – Adewale Sobowale
There’re people and there’re people! We’re ordinary people. But some have an uncommon ability. That ability is not to die. Is it, therefore, not proper to refer to such people as undiables? If a person is gloating over another’s demise? Of course, that person doesn’t have the ability to die. Therefore, he could mock anyone…
Iya Aladura! – Adewale Sobowale
I was really pissed off yesterday. My problem is that I happen to have lived, not so long ago, in a somewhat saner Nigeria. Another problem is the fact that it seems so long ago! Like I was saying, in my sane Nigeria, we attended church and tithes were collected. But then, it was nothing…
Presido Afese’ku! Boxing President!! – Adewale Sobowale
A video clip making the rounds in going viral allegedly shows a president trying to punch a minister for embezzling COVID 19 funds. Of course, such acts could only happen in Africa! One’s not necessarily saying embezzlement doesn’t occur in other countries, but the African case is appearing to be irredeemable. Like I have always…
Of Prison! – Adewale Sobowale
I’ve read so many comments on the beauty pageant held by the Nigerian Prisons, sorry Correctional Facilities Mmm… What comes to my mind are the reports we are getting that the prisoners and detainees are not well fed. In fact, I had an opportunity to visit a prison in Abeokuta severally and the stench was…
