Ethiopia again demands access to the Red Sea
Photo credit: Arab News Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated on Monday that his landlocked…
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…
Ethiopia again demands access to the Red Sea
Photo credit: Arab News Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated on Monday that his landlocked country must have access to the Red Sea, despite neighbouring countries saying at a summit on Sunday that responsibility for the sea rests with the states along its shores and warning of the risk of regional conflict. The Associated Press…
Chapter 5 – The Political Economy of Failure
Nigeria – A Season of Serial BetrayalsA Civic Renaissance Series for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Failure Is Not an Accident – It Is an Economy Nigeria’s failures are not random.They are not mysterious.They are not the result of “bad luck,” “bad leaders,” or “bad culture.” Nigeria fails because failure is profitable for the people who manage…
NYSC: Time 4 Reorganization! – Adewale Sobowale
Someone in the National Youth Service Corps said recently that the organization is being overstretched. I believe that was an understatement of this fast ending year. The days when Youth Corps members are called up for service almost as soon as they write their last papers have certainly gone. Of course, anybody waiting for those…
Needless Death! – Adewale Sobowale
‘To speak of peace and harmony now would be treason to the dead.’ – Rose Schneiderman ‘To keep Nigeria one, justice must be done!’ – Wole Soyinka I just thought we should look back and consider what could have gone wrong with us as a people. That is, of course, if we are really a…
Eran’Gbe! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s this squirrel that normally comes around my bus stop. I believe it’s resident around there. Whenever it’s around or whenever I happen to be around, it comes, wagging it’s bushy tail. Some people, usually whites, give it some peanuts and it even performs some stunts for them. The stunts couldn’t have been for me…
Of Tinubu’s Keke! – Adewale Sobowale
The APC and it’s candidate are sending a cryptic message to Nigerians! But most of us are busy singing, Mi rí kẹ̀kẹ́ kanTéré àjà ló ba lẹ̀ tereÒpobí pobíÒpobì pobìÒrí polóbì oTéréÀjà ló ba lẹ̀Téré! It’s unlike the cyle or the horse our parents made us to see the unforgettable Awo riding in the sky…
International Operation Uncovers Smuggling of Drugs, Weapons, …
Photo credit: BBC Smuggling of drugs, weapons, and counterfeit goods, as well as trafficking of irregular migrants, were uncovered during a week-long operation dubbed Balkan Bridge II that ended on Sunday, head of the General Directorate Border Police Anton Zlatanov and Deputy Director of the National Customs Agency Stefan Bakalov reported during a press briefing at the…
