Canadian officials consider naming street ‘Obama Ave’ to troll Trump
Photo credit: the independent A city council in Canada is taking a page from the US…
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…
Canadian officials consider naming street ‘Obama Ave’ to troll Trump
Photo credit: the independent A city council in Canada is taking a page from the US playbook and plans to rename its street honouring Donald Trump – and to troll him with its new name. The Independent reports that the Ottawa City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to rename Trump Avenue, a residential street in its…
Hundreds of migrants enter UK after 10-day lull
Photo credit: Yahoo News Nearly 500 migrants have arrived in the UK in one day, in the first boats to successfully cross the Channel in 10 days. The BBC reports that the seven vessels that made the crossing were the first since 17 August, when 250 people arrived in the UK. Dinghies arrived in British waters…
Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo spreads to 2 new heath zines…
The Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo, with a total of 60 now affected, according to the latest government figures published on Friday. The Associated Press reports that the two new zones affected are Biena and Manguredjipa in Congo’s North Kivu province, where the case fatality rate…
Kokoro the blind minstrel by Adewale Sobowale
Guess it was one of those days mum took me to Lagos Island for some shopping. Somewhere around Tinubu Square we saw a crowd gathered around a banjo-clad singer. Knowing mum didn’t have any time for frivolities, I intentionally slowed down so that I could have a peep at what was going on. When mum couldn’t find…
Beliefs! – Adewale Sobowale
These are certainly days when those of us who are no Muslims suddenly wish why not. Even at these austere times, if you stay in a place where Muslims are many, like I do, you should, by now, be working out how to pay Sallah visits to your numerous friends. It is because of times…
Echoes From Childhood! – Adewale Sobowale
Mine was a very lively childhood. I would say I had a pretentious innocence. That’s because I actually knew much more than the adults knew that I did. And, I’m suspecting that at least half of the youngsters of those days had a semblance of that too. You know, school was an experience. A very…
Won Fie Joba! – Adewale Sobowale
A certain governor in the southwest has declared that it takes a lot of courage to be earning less than $24,000 and be presiding over a budget of more than $500,000. He is also ‘visibly’ worried by the poor take home pay of civil servants. In the first instance, I wouldn’t know if the governor…
