Trump losing patience with Iran over Strait closure
Photo credit: Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his patience with Iran was…
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…
Trump losing patience with Iran over Strait closure
Photo credit: Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his patience with Iran was wearing thin and claimed that Chinese President XI Jinping agreed Tehran should reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though Beijing gave no sign it intended to intervene directly. ThisisBeirut reports that Speaking aboard Air Force One while returning from Beijing after…
Russia donates 25 tons of food aid to Somalia
Photo credit: Facebook Somalia’s Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Abdifatah Qasim Mohamud, accompanied by the Commissioner of the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mahmoud Moalim Abdulie, on Friday received a food aid donation from the Ambassador of Russia to Somalia and Djibouti, Mikhail Golovanov, who is on a working visit to Somalia. The assistance,…
Housing unaffordability pressures spread beyond Toronto and Vancouver
Photo credit: Yahoo Canada Canada’s housing affordability crisis is spreading beyond its two most expensive cities,according to a new index report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Money Canada reports that CMHC’s latest Housing Affordability Composite Index shows affordability pressures have spread to cities such as Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax, even as national…
Damning All! – Adewale Sobowale
Suicides are becoming rather rampant in our society. And when I talk of the society, I hope you understand I’m referring to the whole wide world – www! And what’s more! It crosses across all classes and status. The fact that a person is seen as being successful doesn’t give us an assurance that they…
Lie Becomes Truth! – Adewale Sobowale
Indians are known for their good films and entrepreneurship. However, little did we know that an Indian yarn will become a truth. Rahul Gandhi is the President of the Indian Congress. He was so livid with the Indian president, Narendra Modi’s alleged lies that he turned to mocking him. He tweeted a photoshopped entry for…
Honda suspends 15B EV plant in Ontario
Photo credit: CBC Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15 – billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario due to changing business conditions. CBC reports that the Japanese automaker said last May it was pausing development at the plant, with plans to review where the EV market was at in two years. The decision to more…
Acute hunger grips nearly 20 million people in Sudan
Photo credit: Aljazeera Over 40 percent of Sudan’s population is being faced by acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, the three-year civil war having created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Al Jazeera reports that nearly 19.5 million Sudanese people are facing such dire circumstances, the United Nations-backed Food…
