Protesters block roads in Portsmouth as 140 migrants rescued
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth on Sunday night after 140 migrants in a single dinghy…
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…
Protesters block roads in Portsmouth as 140 migrants rescued
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth on Sunday night after 140 migrants in a single dinghy were rescued in the English Channel. BBC reports that in the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend, police faced off with demonstrators as they blocked roads in an effort to stop the people who had arrived on the small…
Jamaica to file slavery reparations petition during UK state visit
Photo credit: The independent A Jamaican delegation to the United Kingdom has said it will file a petition addressed to King Charles III to seek legal guidance on the question of slavery reparations. Al Jazeera reports that this is the first time a British Commonwealth state will use this legal route “for the cause of reparatory justice”,…
Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives
A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. The Associated Press reports that a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometres away in…
Luke 2:29 – Adewale Sobowale
According to a narrative, Simeon was an old, devoted Jew whom God had promised that he wouldn’t die until he had seen the Messiah. After the Saviour was born, His parents brought Him to the temple for consecration. So when they brought Him to the temple, old Simeon held the little Jesus in his hands…
I can’t be a good partisan! – Adewale Sobowale
Do you know why?I’ll always say the truth the way I see it, at that point in time.At that point in time because, I’m confessing naturally that I’m not an avatar of knowledge. I’m always open to superior arguments. Of course, my stand has earned me so many enemies. To the point, only evidence wins…
Majority of Canadians now see US as an enemy,…: poll
Photo credit: CTV News For as long as anyone can remember, Canada and the US have arguably been the world’s closest allies and friends. The sibling settler-colonial nations sharing the world’s longest undefended border are deeply linked, culturally and economically, with any differences historically resolved respectfully. National Post reports that as the trade war initiated by US President Donald Trump drags…
UK gov’t condemns masked anti-immigrant protesters blocking Dover port
Photo credit: The Telegraph On Saturday, dozens of masked people protesting Channel migrant crossings blocked access to the port of Dover, briefly halting ferry traffic between England and France. Al Jazeera reports that images shared online showed dozens of demonstrators dressed in black and wearing balaclavas streaming onto roads surrounding the port in the United Kingdom. In…
