UNGA adopts Ukraine ceasefire resolution …
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for an immediate full…
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…
UNGA adopts Ukraine ceasefire resolution …
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for an immediate full and unconditional ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, despite the United States’ abstention and a failed US bid to strip language identifying the Kremlin’s aggression. The UPI reports that the 193-member body met on the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale…
Immigration Reform Bill in Ireland…
Photo credit: Irish Examiner The International Protection Bill is described as the most radical reform of immigration law in the State’s history. It aims to bring Irish law in line with the EU Pact on Migration and asylum. The Irish Times reports that the Opposition TDs are however critical of plans to guillotine the Bill on…
University launches new research initiative to mark refugee week
Photo credit: Student Connect Ltd The University of Gloucestershire is launching a collaborative research initiative focused on advancing knowledge and understanding of forced migration, as part of its activities to mark University Refugee Week 2006. The university’s website reports that starting on Monday, 2 March, University Refugee Week brings together higher education communities across the…
The Southy – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: BBC Way back in the seventies, Africa was the cornerstone of Nigeria’s foreign policy. The military government of Murtala/Obasanjo had taken over control of government on July 29, 1975, having overthrown General Gowon in a palace coup. The gangling Brigadier Joe Garba was the external affairs minister and Professor Akinyemi was the Director…
A Cow’s Diary! – Adewale Sobowale
Why must we lesser animals always suffer just because, sons of men want us to. By the way I think by the time we finish dealing with men, they will know better than calling us lesser animals. We are lesser animals, ordinary minute rats drove a president from his executive office. One of us, an…
Peck And Go! – Adewale Sobowale
While citizens and the governments of other countries are going about the business of making their systems even greater, it’s been discovered that the important problem of Nigeria and Nigerians is the spirit of ‘peck and go’! Starting from the government, people will struggle to enthrone a regime. But what do they get, the government…
True? – Adewale Sobowale
If it’s true that in Nigeria, the North is planning to stop the transportation of agricultural materials to the South, including livestock, the South is certainly going to benefit a lot. In the first instance, the South will be free from the marauding herders of the North. They come and rape, kill, maim and rob….
