Sweden passes law allowing deportation of non-citizens for bad behaviour
Photo credit: Toronto Sun In Sweden, poor behaviour can get non-citizens deported from the country…
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…
Sweden passes law allowing deportation of non-citizens for bad behaviour
Photo credit: Toronto Sun In Sweden, poor behaviour can get non-citizens deported from the country altogether. The Toronto Sun reports that on Monday, the country’s parliament passed a law that allows authorities to revoke residency permits based on what they deem to be bad behaviour. While the law doesn’t specifically state which behaviour would be considered unacceptable,…
From Pele to Mbappe: the greatest World Cup storylines of all time
Photo credit: The Globe and Mail The FIFA World Cup is not just a Soccer tournament. It is the greatest sporting spectacle on earth – a four-year wait compressed into 399 days of drama, glory, heartbreak, and moments so extraordinary they pass into human memory forever. No club match, no continental championship, no other event in sport comes close…
Over 700 migrants cross Channel in largest single-day total this year
Photo credit: the Times More than 700 people crossed the English Channel in small boats bound for the UK on Monday, the latest figures have revealed. DPA International reports that there were 710 people thought to be migrants who arrived in the UK on Monday, the highest number on a single day so far this year. There…
Open These Gates! – Adewale Sobowale
Most of us grew up in relatively more peaceful and crimeless times than we are experiencing now. The social utilities were also much more effective. In actual fact, I can vividly recall that if there was need for the ECN, as the electricity supply monopoly was then called, to cease the supply of power for…
Forced migration: The silent collapse of human civilization
Photo credit: the Borgen project Migration is the heartbeat of human history. From early nomadic movements that populated continents, to the Silk Road networks that connected civilizations, to the maritime expansions of the Renaissance, human mobility has been the primary engine through which ideas, technologies, and cultures have spread. Cities such as Lagos, Cairo, London, and New York did not…
Ah! Ileya Yi Ti Ye! – Adewale Sobowale
How can I celebrate the Salah without Kola Adewuyi? I got to know him in 1984 when I was posted to Saint Stephen’s Commercial High School, Ado Odo, in Ogun State. When I got to the city, I easily made friends. Ade, as I used to call him, was my closest paddy. He was a…
Father’s Day… – Adewale Sobowale
Okunrin rere l’awa;Okunrin rere l’awa;Awa ntoju aya wa;Awa ntoju omo wa;Okunrin rere l’awa! We are good men;We are good men;We’re taking care of our wives;We’re taking care of children;We’re good men! Really? It can’t be argued that most societies are patriarchal. And it’s reflected in the social, political, economic and cultural structures where men are…
