Canadian economy lost 68,000 jobs in September
Photo credit: Radio Canada Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to Statistics Canada, marking…
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 economy lost 68,000 jobs in September
Photo credit: Radio Canada Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to Statistics Canada, marking a second straight month of losses. CBC News reports that the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 6.5 per cent, the same level it was at the start of the year. The figure bucked economists’ predictions of a 9,200-job gain…
New 6.0 earthquake strikes Panama
Photo credit: TVS A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Panama, the latest strong tremor after a 7.7 quake struck the country a day earlier, local media reported on Saturday. Shafaq News reports that the country’s emergency operations chief Rene Garcia said no deaths were immediately reported, while at least two people were injured in the earllier earthquake. Seismo…
Professor blames colonization for Australia’s bushfires
Photo credit: Daily Mail Restoring Indigenous cultural burning could help break a “catastrophic fire loop” plaguing Australia’s southeast forests, a new study has found. Researchers reconstructed the past millennium of vegetation, fire and erosion in Victoria’s Croajingolong National Park in East Gippsland, one of the country’s most fire-prone forests. The study, published on Thursday by the University…
The Odder World! – Adewale Sobowale
The Oyinbo world is an odd one. But since you’ll agree with me that our own world is babanla weird, grandfather of weird, then maybe we should settle and declare that the Oyinbo world is positively odder. But mark you, we have to define what we mean by Oyinbo world. It is the world where…
Six Minus Half A Dozen! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s a popular English saying which is, ‘six and half a dozen’. It’s used to describe an insignificant change. The former ruling party in Nigeria, the People’s Democratic Party is using a former vice president of the federation, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, as its presidential flag bearer in the 2019 elections. The man, Atiku has been…
God Give us Men
God give us men!A time like this demands strong mindsGreat hearts, true faith and ready hands,Men whom the lust of office does not kill,Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;Men who possess opinions and a will,Men who have honor, who will not lie,Men who can stand before a demagogueAnd damn his treacherous feathers…
The Drunkard! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s this gist about a guy who had a pint too many. In his drunken state, he wanted to take a leak. Our guy was decent enough to look for the bathrooms. Unfortunately for him, the bathrooms were two. On the wall separating the two, a sign was posted. Obinrin – FemaleOkunrin – MaleOur friend…
