Canadians call for ban on US ambassador in latest trade war salvo
Photo credit: Yahoo News More than 80,000 Canadians have signed onto a petition calling for…
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…
Canadians call for ban on US ambassador in latest trade war salvo
Photo credit: Yahoo News More than 80,000 Canadians have signed onto a petition calling for the removal of US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, accusing him of “undermining” relations between the two countries and having ties to a separatist movement. The Independent reports that the petition campaign seeks to have Hoekstra, a former ambassador to the Netherlands and…
Burnham says every community must host migrants
Photo credit: BBC The UK’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has told middle-class communities in Britain that they must “play their part” in accommodating asylum seekers, as the country faces a spiralling migration crisis and mounting pressure over the use of hotels and privately rented homes. Human Events reports that the Prime Minister refused to rule…
South Africa seeking “reimbursement” for R300m spent on repatriations
The South African government is seeking reimbursements from the governments of Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia for costs incurred in repatriating their nationals. Jacaranda FM reports that the reparations came amid a campaign by fringe anti-foreigner groups, which had set June 30 as an unofficial deadline for undocumented migrants to leave. The Border Management Authority has revealed…
Ominous Times! – Adewale Sobowale
These, definitely, are not the best of times in Nigeria. We are surely going back to the Hobbesian state. Murders are more than rampant now. Kidnappers have been let loose watching to steal fellow humans. Primitive rituals are the order of the day now. The Yahoo boys are yet to repent. The boko haram crisis…
Buhari Visits Tinubu! – Adewale Sobowale
I wonder if Nigeria’s so-called leaders have any sense of shame. Reading the newspapers, one item I can’t ever forget is where the Nigerian leader is said to have visited the APC leader. He visited him, not in his country home in Nigeria, but somewhere in the United Kingdom. One interesting fact is that both…
Left Foot… – Adewale Sobowale
I understand the erudite Professor Akintoye wrote a letter to Mr Buhari informing him of Yoruba’s intention to have a nation separate from Nigeria. In other words, according to the letter, their Yoruba wants to be independent. I used “their” because I’m not aware of any election among the Yoruba to that effect. We all…
A beta pass my neighbour! – Adewale Sobowale
While the poor are still waiting till kingdom come, there’s no doubting the fact that Nigerian politicians are enjoying the lives of their “heads.” While the government is finding it difficult to pay the masses some stipend, the senators are smiling “prayerfully” to their banks. I guess they’ll give some money to their impoverished constituents….
