Asylum seekers deported by US detained in Equatorial Guinea hotel
Photo credit: AP News At first glance, the Balmy Hotel looks like any other 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…
Asylum seekers deported by US detained in Equatorial Guinea hotel
Photo credit: AP News At first glance, the Balmy Hotel looks like any other on the tropical Island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging beyond a mahogany reception desk. The Associated Press reports that the hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking…
Diaspora group sues Zimbabwe and South Africa over migration
Photo credit: the Zimbabwean A South Africa-based non-profit organization led by a Zimbabwean citizen has launched a legal challenge in a Pretoria court seeking to hold both the Zimbabwean and South African governments accountable for alleged constitutional violations, human rights abuses and the migration crisis affecting the region. The main applicant, the African Diaspora Global Network, an…
A chat with Author Christena Williams and Wayne Carnegie, an illustrator
The fact that they’ve never met in person did not stop them from working together and producing the children’s book titled Wayne & Chrissy’s Tea Leaves Adventures. The book is available on Amazon.
May 27?
In the not-too-far-away days of childhood, I used to treasure May 27. The day was children’s day! I used the past tense deliberately. Then, we were as innocent as lambs. Although we had heard of gbomogbomo (kidnappers), none of us had ever experienced being ferried away in broad daylight. Little did we know that n ot only gbomogbomo but gbagbagbagba (“adultnappers”) would soon…
Bend Down Boutique – Adewale Sobowale
When I was much younger, there was, opposite the then Leventis Stores in Marina, Lagos what was known as Quay Side. True, it was a place where ships berthed and sailors did sailor-like pastimes of womanising, smoking Indian hemp, drinking – sometimes to a stupor, those of them that wanted to listen and even dance…
Awa Pipool! – Adewale Sobowale
Are we not tired of being dribbled here, there and beyond by unskilled footballers manifesting as our crude politicians? Yes, crude, very crude! Was it not in the last elections that people were bribed with kulikuli and gari. That could be interpreted in various ways. First, the bulk of Nigerians are so cheap that they…
US plans to halt immigration and customs processing at major airports in “sanctuary cities”
Photo credit: Reuters US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Trump administration is drawing up plans to stop processing international travellers and cargo at major US airports in “sanctuary cities” that have declined to cooperate with an immigration crackdown. The Telegraph online reports that the move could effectively halt international air travel and commerce at major…
