Protests in Portugal for “right to housing”
Photo credit: Euractiv Protests for the right to housing took place throughout Portugal on Saturday, with…
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…
Protests in Portugal for “right to housing”
Photo credit: Euractiv Protests for the right to housing took place throughout Portugal on Saturday, with hundreds taking to the streets of Lisbon with their banners and a completely understandable sense of outrage. The Resident reports that in Aveiro, Barreiro, Benavente, Braga, Coimbra, Covilha, Faro, Funchal, Lagos, Leiria, Ponta Delgada, Portalegre, Porto, Vila Nova de Santo…
Canadians abroad call for increase in voter turnout …
Photo credit: the Globe and Mail Canadians living abroad are calling for increased turnout among overseas voters and arguing that barriers to casting a ballot could be affecting election results. Timothy Veale, the director of Grits Abroad – an organizatioin aimed at connecting Canadian Liberal voters living worldwide – said nearly five million Canadians live outside…
Asylum seekers offered 40,000K to leave UK
Photo credit: Yahoo News Families of asylum seekers whose claims are rejected have been offered up to 10,000 pounds per person, capped at four per family, to voluntarily leave the UK if they accept the offer within one week. The I Paper reports that Danish immigration experts said a similar offer in their country has…
Kini Big Deal? – Adewale Sobowale
I guess it was Naeto that sang a song that became the poem of the time, titled ‘kini big deal?’, (what’s the result of all the hassles?) Is it not a song that suits these times? These are times when it has been vividly proved that the average Nigerian will do anything to get money….
Wetin Consain You? – Adewale Sobowale
When we invited Bill Gates to the Special Expanded Economic Council Meeting, we didn’t know he was going to be saying all those things that are not in the least palatable to us. We thought he would, at least, give us some modicum of respect. Does he attend economic council meetings in the White House?…
We’ve Got Body! Body La Ni!! – Adewale Sobowale
Mr Buhari’s so-called address on COVID 19 is a very interesting one. In the first instance, if according to sources, the address is twenty-three seconds long, that would be almost equal to the number of COVID 19 cases reported in Nigeria as at Sunday morning which is thirty. In the address, the president actually highlights…
