The migration war playing out in Ibiza
Photo credit: iNewspaper A battle over migration is playing out in the popular holiday island of…
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 migration war playing out in Ibiza
Photo credit: iNewspaper A battle over migration is playing out in the popular holiday island of Ibiza. The i Paper reports that the right-wing parties are rebelling against a Spanish government decree to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Spain’s conservative People’s Party and the hard-right Vox party, which control the regional government in the Balearic Islands,…
Ex-diplomat, 93, to be tried for 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba
Photo credit: the Guardian A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state, a Brussels court has ruled. The Guardian reports that Etienne Davignon, the only person still alive among 10 Belgians the…
Chile’s Kast launches “border shield” plan
Photo credit: Reuters Chilean President Jose Antonio Kast has launched the border control works he had promised during the campaign. MercoPress reports that the “border shield” starts in Chacalluta in the Arica and Parinacota region. This is an early sign that migration and security will be among the defining priorities of his administration. According to Chile’s presidency,…
Igboho is very thoughtful – Adewale Sobowale
I understand Sunday Igboho has announced a ban on Obi and Atiku from campaigning in the southwest. Great idea! However, I also understand he made the announcement on behalf of all the Yoruba. Who gave him the authority? I don’t have any qualms about his joining the Akanbi’s Party for Chopping (APC), but he must…
White Knight Syndrome… – Adewale Sobowale
I hail una o! You know say I no kuku go sukuru but I sabi some sense. De tin wey dey worry us, I mean we Naija people, na wetin people wey go sukuru dey call White Knight Syndrome or Saviour Complex. Sa, di tin be say we go dey wait for person make dem…
A – Looter Continua! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s been so much noise about the take home pay of members of the National Assembly. Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have expected people to be bothering their heads about whatever we do once they have already voted for us. In the first instance, didn’t we give them egunje before they grudgingly voted us in? The gratifications…
Democratization of traditional values! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s a saying among the Yoruba that it’s a person that’s behind the Oro… I’ve been seeing some of the gods of the Yoruba being worshipped/appeased in the open. I praise the ingenuity of the political actors in encouraging the otherwise secretive traditional worshippers to bring their acts into the open instead of staying in…
