The migrants in the ancient forest
Photo credit: The New Yorker Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish…
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…
The migrants in the ancient forest
Photo credit: The New Yorker Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish corder, watching a smuggler lean a ladder against a very high wall as members of the Belarusian border guard looked on. The New Yorker reports that Ahmed, a nineteen-year-old Somali, is tall and lanky, with close-cropped curly dark hair. At home…
Trump’s Iran gambit: A strategic quagmire with no clear exit!
Photo credit: NDTV The Trump administration’s military intervention against Iran has evolved from a presumed swift demonstration of force into a deepening strategic quagmire. Yeni Safak reports that initial assumptions underpinning the campaign – that intensive aerial bombardment would paralyze Iran’s military capacity and that internal dissent would trigger popular uprisings – have collided with battlefield realities. Tehran has maintained its retaliatory capabilities,…
Canada urges diplomatic solution in Iran!
Photo credit: Toronto Star Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada would like to see a diplomatic solution to the ear in Iran, even as Canada has expressed support for the US military attack that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday. Toronto Today reports that Anand, speaking to reporters in New Delhi after Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly cancelled his scheduled…
My Presido Can’t Lie!!! – Adewale Sobowale
If soldiers are gentlemen and gentlemen’s words are their bonds, then the recantation of the five thousand naira promise to unemployed Nigerians couldn’t have been uttered by President Buhari. Even though he is a retired soldier, old soldiers, they say, never die. The discipline is always there. To deny the unemployed people the benefit of…
Transferred Aggresion! – Adewale Sobowale
A photograph is going trendy on the social media now. It’s the one of a so-called destitute woman in Ibadan. That should not have rung a bell because it is not strange in this country. However, the shocking thing is that most of the posters do not fail to remark that the photograph is that…
2 Wrongs = Right! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s this trouble that’s always brewing up between some Igbo and Yoruba people. You know when people are well fed they will be looking for bekun bekun! The Lagosians’ accusation is that the Igbo do not respect them to the extent that they are calling Lagos a no man’s land. Apart from that, they are…
Arresting Rural -Urban Migration in South Western Nigeria – Adewale Sobowale
I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you like. In my active…
