The Hidden Cost of Ethiopian Labour Migration
Photo credit: the Guardian Muhammed Awol had a plan. The 29-year-old father of two, from Chefa Robbit in…
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 Hidden Cost of Ethiopian Labour Migration
Photo credit: the Guardian Muhammed Awol had a plan. The 29-year-old father of two, from Chefa Robbit in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, believed a job in Japan would change his family’s future. Instead, he says, it emptied his pockets and left him with questions no one could answer. Borkena reports that it all started in 2024, when Awol paid…
Kenya’s Ebola cases rise to 7 …
Photo credit: TVC News Three Kenyan health workers have tested positive for Ebola after caring for the country’s first confirmed case, the Health Ministry said Saturday. The Associated Press reports that another person linked to the first case also tested positive while in quarantine, bringing the total number of infections in Kenya to seven. The ministry said the four…
City Hall torched as over 1000 arrested in French protests
Photo credit: iNewspaper Around 1,200 people were arrested in France on Saturday, as violent clashes, fire and looting marred demonstrations against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. The I Paper reports that the City Hall in Limoges was set on fire and destroyed, with the flames still raging into the evening. French President…
Headless Basketmouth! – Adewale Sobowale
I love artistes. The number one reason I love them for is because they can interpret even the most obvious things in a complex manner. I would rather believe in an artiste than a preacher. This is more so in a Nigeria where so many so-called men of God exist. Their religiosity has not saved…
They’ve Not Come! – Adewale Sobowale
Yes, they’re yet to come for me. I mean the agents of this government. So, I can afford to find funny the travails of those whose human rights are being violated. After all, they are big men. Dasuki and Kanu are two of a kind. Dasuki even went to the level of ECOWAS court. Then…
Ta Ni’Ku Kan? Whose Turn…To Die? – Adewale Sobowale
When our acquaintances, friends and age mates are dying, it’s an allegory for us to mend our ways and put things in order. It wouldn’t be out of place for us to decide how we want to be interred. When we do that, family and friends will be invitees to our self-planned funerals. Of course,…
Trump criticizes Zelenskyy
Photo credit: NPR Donald Trump has called Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries “a disgrace” and criticized Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine failed to take hold. The Guardian reports that Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after Zelenskyy said Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire unilaterally declared by Trump on…
