A $50 million hostage ransom funded al Qaeda’s Mali offensive, UN says
Photo credit: The New Arab An estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage seized…
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…
A $50 million hostage ransom funded al Qaeda’s Mali offensive, UN says
Photo credit: The New Arab An estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage seized by al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali in late 2025 has helped to fund their advances across West Africa and the group’s global network, UN experts say. https:/ region, /youtu.be/2fjJurzdUuM?si=wW3ie5iiMJn5Fb9P Reuters reports that a new UN report detailing the use of the ransom did…
Morocco blocks 111 migrants from entering Ceuta
Photo credit: Reuters Dozens of migrants were detained in Morocco on Saturday as they attempted to cross into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. UPI reports Moroccan officials as saying they intercepted some 111 people near the town of Fnideq, about 2 miles from the border. Local police chartered buses to return them to other parts of the country,…
From stomach to gun, the brutalization of Nigerian politics
Photo credit: The Guardian There was a time when the Nigerian politician needed your vote. Those were the good old days. That was when there was accountability. You could see the average politician was doing something worthwhile with your vote in his kitty and your tax in his “care”. The politician was your neighbour. He didn’t…
Stone Him! – Adewale Sobowale
Charley Boy a.k.a. The Area Fada took the protest to Wuse Market yesterday, and he was brutally dealt with. Of course! He must be. He, apparently doesn’t have the right to peacefully air his views. By the way, who is he? If there’s anybody who is so blind that they have seen nothing good in…
Modern Elisha? – Adewale Sobowale
Even though I’m yet to receive the call, I can’t joke with my bible. It’s both a sword and a book. When a person is besieged by the vicissitudes of life, when he is fighting against spiritual cum human forces, when he needs reassurance, then he needs not a physical sword but a spiritual one….
Enough is More Than Enough! – Adewale Sobowale
That Mr Mohammed Buhari, the Nigerian President is ill isnot news again. That he’s on medical tourism in the UK is stale news. However, without counting his various sick leaves in the past, this time around, he has spent one hundred days in the UK. All on going for medical treatment. Men like Buhari are…
Mass Suicide? – Adewale Sobowale
I was just thinking of the changing world. Yes, vis a vis our environment. Not too long ago, in the days of my youth, one could see a lot of greenery even in urban centers like Lagos. But what do we have now? There used to be a Biney Zoo just across the railway line…
