Carney, Ford unveil $9B plan to support industries hit by tariff war
Photo credit: CBC The federal government and Ontario governments are putting billions of dollars on…
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…
Carney, Ford unveil $9B plan to support industries hit by tariff war
Photo credit: CBC The federal government and Ontario governments are putting billions of dollars on the line to help bolster the province’s key sectors – steel, critical minerals and auto manufacturing – as they continue to manage the fallout of tariffs from the United States. The Canadian Press reports that Prime Minister Mark Carney said…
Australian MP loses both legs after alleged vehicle attack, suspect appears in court
Photo credit: Aljazeera Australian lawmaker Helen Haines has had both legs amputated after being rammed by a car outside her electoral office, her husband said on Wednesday as the man accused of the attack appeared in court. Doctors amputated Haines’s left leg after she was struck twice by a car in Wangaratta, northeast of Melbourne,…
Migrants paid up to $500 million in smuggling fees on European sea routes
Photo credit: UN News The price tag for smuggling on European sea routes reached up to half a billion dollars last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Migration Office (IOM) reported on Wednesday. UN News reports that almost half of migrants trying to get smuggled into Italy or Malta from North…
With Whose Permission? – Adewale Sobowale
Adekunle Oluseyi and Edward Soje are no more!May their souls find peace with their creator!! Both of them committed suicide in the outgone week. Like I wrote sometime ago, I salute the courage of those people who were so brave enough to commit suicide! So many of us have thought of suicide at one time…
Odun Eegun! – Adewale Sobowale
May I use this opportunity to congratulate the ever hopeful people of Ogun State on the occasion of their harvesting their own rights from political spendthrifts? This is election season and politicians are busy outspending each other. Pray, what are they spending on? All those things they ought to have provided for the people in…
Any Surprise? – Adewale Sobowale
Hardly does any sane person need a clairvoyant to know things would turn out this way. The unfortunate thing is the fact that some of us warned against putting that murderer in Aso Rock. But then, it’s like our own ears are even ‘deafer’ than the man’s. We didn’t warn without evidence. We warned based…
Alberta rejects separation referendum!
Photo credit: Aljazeera Voters in Alberta have chosen to remain part of Canada in a first-ever independence referendum. CBC News called the results of Monday’s vite late on the same day after 48 per cent of the ballots counted showed overwhelming support for the “remain” side, with 76 per cent opting to stay with Canada….
