Rival protests collide in London
Photo credit: Reuters Tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in <London on Saturday…
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…
Rival protests collide in London
Photo credit: Reuters Tens of thousands of protesters joined two rival marches in <London on Saturday – the Unite the Kingdom rally organized by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration. The BBC reports that over 4,000 police officers were deployed to the capital to manage a so-called “sterile zone” between the two marches. Officers also…
Cuba crisis could become a new US migration emergency says former CIA director
Photo credit: The New York Times Former CIA Director Robert Gates said Cuba’s greatest national security risk to the United States is not an imminent military attack, but the possibility that the island’s deepening crisis could produce another mass migration emergency like the 1980 Mariel boatlift. The Latin Times reports that Gates told Margaret Brennan in…
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda
Photo credit: NBC News WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday after more than 300 suspected cases and 86 deaths. In a social media post, the World Health Organization stated that the outbreak does not meet the criteria for a…
Moroccan women climb the mountains to catch the fog and turn it into drinking water
Photo credit: Daily Galaxy For generations, women in southwest Morocco’s Ait Baamrane region spent up to four hours a day walking to wells and hauling back five-gallon barrels of water on their heads. Europe Says reports that each barrel weighed nearly 50 pounds. The task consumed their mornings, kept girls out of school, and shaped…
Aiwo! – Adewale Sobowale
To Yoruba men, the topic should be familiar. For those of my readers who aren’t Yoruba, I’m appealing to them to research its meaning. For the ladies, don’t you think I’m a chauvinist, I’m giving you the honour to either research or not. But I don’t think it will be too much for you to…
Tell Me Your Friends…!Eni Bi Ahun…!!! – Adewale Sobowale
The main characters of the Abacha era are now exposing themselves. According to Mr Galadima, a self styled Abacha boy, the goggled one was advised by the likes of Saddam Hussein and Muhammad Gaddafi to stash Nigeria’s money abroad because the U.S. and other countries may block Nigeria’s accounts. A pertinent question the journalist should…
Trump losing patience with Iran over Strait closure
Photo credit: Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his patience with Iran was wearing thin and claimed that Chinese President XI Jinping agreed Tehran should reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though Beijing gave no sign it intended to intervene directly. ThisisBeirut reports that Speaking aboard Air Force One while returning from Beijing after…
