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Photo credit: x..com Australia’s population has now ticked over 28 million after the Albanese government…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Photo credit: x..com Australia’s population has now ticked over 28 million after the Albanese government exceeded its net overseas migration numbers. Daily Mail reports that data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed on Tuesday the nation’s population was estimated at 28,000,212 at the time of publication. https://youtube.com/shorts/yw7kTIXKN2U?si=I3ZBw0HoDGGtJePR35 seconds. The population clock is based on a…
Photo credit: Citynews Montreal An international student from the Democratic Republic of Congo says she was blocked from returning to Montreal because of Ebola-related travel restrictions – despite the fact she hasn’t visited her home country in almost a year. The Associated Press reports that Merdie Sanga was vacating in France when she received a letter…
Photo credit: Premium Times I congratulate us, Nigerians, for our long suffering attitude in withstanding this government for so long. As we say in Nigerianese, we should start knowing how great a weekend would be from Friday. As this government is on the last of a four-year tenure, I guess it’s doing a great job. Gbomu le lantern is…
I’m sitting here and remembering how Mr Dalung, Nigerian sports minister and Mrs Yetunde Onanuga travelled to watch Anthony Joshua’s demolition of Takam in the tenth round. They did not fail to relay a message of how the government and people of Nigeria were proud of AJ. When the heavyweight boxer visited Nigeria, the then…
On Friday, Canada Soccer announced head coach Jesse Marsch’s squad for the FIFA World Cup tournament. The tournament takes off on June 11. Canada will play its first match against Bosnia & Herzegovina in Toronto on June 12. On the goalkeeping front, Dayne St Clair and Maxine Crepeau will battle for the starters’ spot. They’ll be…
Photo credit: CBC With a few days until kick-off and thousands of tickets still available for the six matches Toronto is hosting, many of the city’s soccer fans appear to be giving a definite answer to whether they would rather buy a ticket to a \World Cup match or pay a month’s rent at a condo…
South Africa’s national men’s soccer team has postponed its travel to Mexico because of visa issues, just 11 days ahead of the World Cup. AP reports that Bafana Bafana were supposed to leave for Mexico on Sunday to start preparations for the tournament. The team is set to play co-host Mexico in the opening game in Mexico on…