UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade
Photo credit: Reuters says countries must consider reparations for slave trade A UN committee said…
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…
UN committee says countries must consider reparations for slave trade
Photo credit: Reuters says countries must consider reparations for slave trade A UN committee said countries are legally obliged to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and take other measures to address the enduring legacy of racial discrimination it says persists today. Reuters reports that guidance published on Monday by the Committee on the…
Immigration protests “spike” in Scotland
Photo credit: Edinburgh live Hundreds of flags were removed from lampposts across Scotland, with many removed in Edinburgh last year as social tensions around immigration grew. Edinburghlive reports that over 700 banners – almost all of them saltires or Union jacks – were taken down from public property by local authority workers in 2025/26, marking a…
Growing Upward by Jadine Ngan
Photo credit: The Globe and Mail Every Sunday morning, on the westernmost edge of Toronto’s Cabbagatown, 45 or so worshippers cram into the tiny chapel at Saint Luke’s United. Every seat in the pews is usually spoken for, with extra chairs squeezed into the aisles. But the tight quarters haven’t cramped the church’s sense of…
Don’t leave the sermon in the parking lot by Abigail George
In the mental hospital, we were given hard-boiled eggs without salt. I came to see my time in isolation, and the forgoing of salt, as a form of slow torture. For over a month, I did not see anyone except the attendants when food was handed to me. When I bathed in the basin, I…
Ori Yeye! – Adewale Sobowale
‘Ori yeye n mogun, tai se lo po nbe’. The aforementioned is a Yoruba saying denoting the injustice of power when used stupidly. I just learnt about one hundred men of the Nigerian police force were sent to make sure Bob Risky didn’t celebrate his birthday. Bob Risky himself ‘spoke with his legs’! Omo olomo,…
Neither Here…! – Adewale Sobowale
I’ve always told whoever cares to listen that the Nigerian situation will get worse before getting better. See the headline of yesterday’s news. The Interim Management Committee of the NDDC (Niger Delta Development Commission) has declared that Nigeria will break if it releases the list of looters in the organization. Dr Cairo Ojougboh, the executive…
Immigration panel calls for deeper temporary-resident cuts…
Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada’s immigration reset is entering a harder phase. After Ottawa sharply reduced planned arrivals of international students and temporary workers, the head of a prominent immigration-policy council is arguing the country should go further. Parisa Mahboubi, who chairs the CD Howe Institute’s Immigration Targets Council, says the federal goal of bringing non-permanent…
