Drone strike hits wedding in Darfur
Photo credit: Washington Post A drone strike on a town in Sudan’s Darfur region hit…

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: Washington Post A drone strike on a town in Sudan’s Darfur region hit a wedding party, killing at least 30 civilians, including women and children, the United Nations said Thursday. The Associated Press reports that Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN’s secretary-general, said during a briefing that the wedding ceremony was in the town…
Photo credit: Reuters European police forces in recent weeks have dismantled a migrant smuggling network that brought people from Vietnam across the European Union (EU) to Britain, earning itself up to three million euros in recent years, the EU law enforcement co-operation agency Europol said on Thursday (April 9). Asia One reports that eight people were…
Spanking is an outmoded form of parenting in Canada. The National Post reports that a new study has found that a sizeable proportion of millennial and Gen Z parents are still spanking their kids. When asked whether they have ever spanked their child or children on their bottom with their hand, about 20 per cent of younger…
I am one of those who believe that a president’s job is one of the easiest. He is just there to supervise the work of his appointees. So, I don’t see the big deal in a president’s job. I also believe anybody, with a little bit of sense,should be able to preside over the affairs…
For certain reasons, I’ve been behind the news. However, who is that person that would have allowed the declaration of Mr Muhammad Buhari, President of ð³ð¬, and commander in chief of its armed forces for the presidential elections of 2019 escape them? Mbanu! Only a very disloyal Nigerian and of course, a wailing wailer. But…
Are the Muslims in Nigeria enjoying the Ramadan? I asked the question because of my past. Yes, my not too long ago past. Then, birds cried like birds and rats squeaked like rats. incidentally, the Christians are also in the final stage of the Lenten season. But, would I be right in saying there’s hardly…