Haitians in Ohio forced to wear ankle monitors after Trump ends TPS
Photo credit: Cincinnati Inquirer Donald Trump’s administration is summoning Haitian immigrants in Ohio to immigration…
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…
Haitians in Ohio forced to wear ankle monitors after Trump ends TPS
Photo credit: Cincinnati Inquirer Donald Trump’s administration is summoning Haitian immigrants in Ohio to immigration offices to either be immediately removed from the country or forced to wear ankle monitors before they face a deportation hearing. The Independent reports that dozens of immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, with Temporary Protected Status were called into Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
160 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in English Channel
Photo credit: the Telegraph French and British vessels saved 157 migrants after their boat caught fire while trying to cross the Channel on Tuesday, French authorities said, in one of the largest rescue operations since 2028. Saudi Gazette reports that “A small boat caught fire on the boundary between French and British waters, forcing its occupants to…
Life and times of Madam Tinubu by Adewale Sobowale
We were so innocently naive in elementary classes that when teachers taught us Mungo Park discovered the River Niger, we just let it sink in without thinking. Of course, he must have met some people (Africans) there. In the same vein, we were taught that Madam Efunroye Tinubu (c. 1805-1887) was the first woman to own…
Boundaries! – Adewale Sobowale
Nigerians, OK, some of them, will never cease to amaze me. I thought I was unshockable due to the fact that I felt I had seen it all. Yes, the height (the depth?) of it was wishing a person, who happens to be the President of Nigeria dead. I’ve always maintained that, Ba ba n…
Seeds of Gluttony! – Adewale Sobowale
That Nigerians are religious is an understatement. The peculiar situation of the country, where people are poor amidst a lot of resources has forced people to be looking up to God for salvation. However, in the bid to get salvation, people must satisfy their basic needs. A person may not be able to satisfy those…
Who’s Afraid of Revolution! – Adewale Sobowale
A revolution is a very sharp change made to something. They are usually political in nature. Some people feel unhappy with their lives, some are unhappy with whole systems. Often revolutions include fighting. However, there are revolutions that happen without fighting. Now, if Sowore was comfortable with the style of Buhari’s administration, he wouldn’t have…
Before NEPA Strikes! – Adewale Sobowale
NEPA, as it then was, used to be the Nigerian government owned monopoly of electricity power. The only thing was that it gradually went from the state of supplying epileptic power to not supplying at all. That was when the Nigerian government in its wisdom, decided to privatize power supply. But then, with the introduction…
