Johannesburg demonstrators demand tougher stance on illegal migration
Photo credit: BBC Anti-immigration protests intensified in Johannesburg on Wednesday, as hundreds of South Africans…
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…
Johannesburg demonstrators demand tougher stance on illegal migration
Photo credit: BBC Anti-immigration protests intensified in Johannesburg on Wednesday, as hundreds of South Africans marched against undocumented migrants and called for stricter enforcement of immigration laws. Face2FaceAfrica reports that the rally followed similar demonstrations a day earlier in Pretoria, signalling a growing, coordinated push by anti-immigration groups pressing authorities to tighten enforcement and carry out large-scale…
Amnesty International report warns of deepening Indigenous people”s housing crisis
Photo credit: CBC A new report by Amnesty International warns that overcrowded and unsafe housing in an Atikamekw community north of Montreal reflects a broader crisis putting Indigenous people’s health, safety and rights at risk across Canada. The Canadian Press reports that in Manawan, about 250 kilometres north of Montreal, community leaders say families are…
17 migrants perish at sea, 9 missing feared dead
Photo credit: DW At least 17 migrants died and nine are missing after their boat broke down and drifted for eight days in the Mediterranean Sea, Libya’s Red Crescent and Libyan security sources said on Wednesday. Asharq Al-Awsat reports that the Red Crescent said that the volunteers in cooperation with naval forces and coast guards of…
Nothing Is Free! – Adewale Sobowale
Nothing more brings to mind the hard times we are in than the fact that some southwestern states in Nigeria have legislated, in their respective houses of assembly, that people sinking boreholes will henceforth be paying some money. This is to inform citizens that, even in Freetown, nothing goes for free. However, I think the…
Who’s The Fool! – Adewale Sobowale
Gov, Monday Okpebolo harvests corn from farm For how long must we countinue with this tomfoolery? Ain’t it time for us to stop all these rigmarolic displays? A political functionary goes to the rural area and for photo effect, he pretends to identify with the people. He does what villagers are doing and it becomes…
Help Needed! – Adewale Sobowale
It won’t be wrong if at the extent our youths are bent on self destruction, we should call for urgent help. Many of our youths are now under the influence. They indulge in the expensive habit of drug taking. When people have been converted into drug users, they are likely to forsake everything just to…
The West Surprises Me! – Adewale Sobowale
Yes! So, Canada held its Federal Election recently and the result was announced almost immediately. Ah… No election delays, no fake result, no touts, no rigging, no election observers and so on. What’s more…the political parties that did not win are taking it like gentlemen and women. They aren’t going to the tribunal. Even before…
