Canada’s response to Trump is not at all what he expected
Photo credit: The Guardian President Donald Trump and his top officials keep insulting Canada as…
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…
Canada’s response to Trump is not at all what he expected
Photo credit: The Guardian President Donald Trump and his top officials keep insulting Canada as they wage their unprovoked trade war against the country. From renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to joking that Canada is “America’s 51st state,” the Trump administration has assumed that Canada would bend the knee to the United States –…
Israeli airstrikes on a village in southern Lebanon kill 12 people
Photo credit: Reuters Israel’s air force carried out two airstrikes early Monday on a southern Lebanese village, killing at least 12 people and wounding others, including children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. The Associated Press reports that Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group despite a truce…
Kenya offers temporary amnesty to undocumented East Africans amid fears of crackdown
Photo credit: Reuters Kenya’s government offered a temporary amnesty to undocumented East African nationals after hundreds of Burundians flocked to their country’s embassy in Nairobi on Monday seeking travel documents, fearing a crackdown on small-scale traders from abroad. Reuters reports that Kenyan President William Ruto last week called on authorities to close down all small-scale…
Proud of Buhari! – Adewale Sobowale
If the presidential candidate of the APC and his team are not happy about the mistreatment Buhari is enacting on Nigerians, they wouldn’t have said they wanted to build on Muhammadu Buhari’s stinking legacy. In fact, I tend to think Mr Tinubu would have shelved the title of “APC Leader.” But those who know are…
Protesters block roads in Portsmouth as 140 migrants rescued
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth on Sunday night after 140 migrants in a single dinghy were rescued in the English Channel. BBC reports that in the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend, police faced off with demonstrators as they blocked roads in an effort to stop the people who had arrived on the small…
Jamaica to file slavery reparations petition during UK state visit
Photo credit: The independent A Jamaican delegation to the United Kingdom has said it will file a petition addressed to King Charles III to seek legal guidance on the question of slavery reparations. Al Jazeera reports that this is the first time a British Commonwealth state will use this legal route “for the cause of reparatory justice”,…
Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives
A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. The Associated Press reports that a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometres away in…
