Two Nigerians killed in S. Africa as xenophobic tensions rise
Photo credit: Newsroom The Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg says two Nigerians identified as Amaramiro Emmanuel and…
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…
Two Nigerians killed in S. Africa as xenophobic tensions rise
Photo credit: Newsroom The Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg says two Nigerians identified as Amaramiro Emmanuel and Ekpenyong Andrew, have been killed in South Africa amid rising xenophobic tensions. The Cable reports that Ninikanwa Okey-Uche, the consul-general, said in a statement on Monday that Emmanuel died from injuries allegedly sustained after being beaten by personnel of the South African…
Green card applicants in US face hurdles over political views on Israel
Photo credit: Fox News The Trump administration is adding new guidance to its green card application process to deny immigrants seeking permanent US residency status if theyexprdess anti-American, anti-Israeli or pro-Palestinian political views, according to a report by the New York Times. AA reports that the new guidelines state that immigrants can now be denied…
French coastguard rescues more than 100 migrants after boat breaks down
Photo credit: the independent More than 100 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in a single boat have been rescued by the French coastguard after it broke down. Independent reports that the “taxi boat” was spotted travelling east along the coast towards Wimereux to pick up people during the early hours of Sunday morning. The…
The Goggled One! – Adewale Sobowale
Let’s be thanking God for little mercies. Let’s thank Him for all things. I’m rereading Olusegun Adeniyi’s ‘The Last 100 Days of Abacha’. All the killings and attempted killings. The so- called phantom coup. The adoption by all the ‘five fingers of the same hand’, as late Bola Ige described the political parties of that…
What Happened? – Adewale Sobowale
If I had the opportunity, I would have asked the Nigerian President what happened during the lockdown to warrant easing it from next Monday. I would have even asked him if he had succeeded in getting an okay from COVID 19 that it must only strike at night. That would have informed his pronouncing a…
Nollywood abroad! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s no doubt that Nollywood – Nigeria’s version of Hollywood – is going places. With the number of Nigerians progressively committing the offence of japaing, the sky is actually the beginning for our thespians. The movies are actually doing a lot in reminding one of home. But, there is quite a few things to be…
Toronto man’s HIV no longer detectable after bone marrow transplant
photo credit: The Canadian Press A Toronto patient who has been living with HIV for 27 years is in remission – and potentially cured, according to his doctors – after a bone marrow transplant from a donor naturally resistant to the virus. The patient was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia in 2021 and needed a…
