Toronto man discovers 35 half-siblings after DNA test
Photo credit: CP24 A DNA test bought on sale led to a discovery that would…
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…
Toronto man discovers 35 half-siblings after DNA test
Photo credit: CP24 A DNA test bought on sale led to a discovery that would change one Toronto performer’s understanding of his family and eventually inspire a musical. CP24 reports that 31-year-old Noam Tomaschoff learned that the man he had grown up calling his father was not his biological father and that he had been conceived…
Israeli officials say results stand as Netanyahu claims election “stolen”
Photo credit: PBS The head of Israel’s elections commission has said the results of the country’s general election would still stand even if claims of foreign interference were substantiated. Al Jazeera reports that the head of the Central Elections Committee, Noam Sohlberg, said in a video on Sunday that, “Our position is that even if the…
Handwriting Signs May Be Linked to Cognitive Decline In Older Adults
Certain handwriting features, such as writing efficiency and coordination, may shed light on the cognitive health of older adults, according to a new study from Portugal. HuffPost reports that the small-scale study, published in the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience journal on Tuesday, found that the ability to perform certain handwriting tasks differed significantly between participants with cognitive…
Innocence! – Adewale Sobowale
Blameless!Guiltless!In the clear!Unimpeachable!Irreproachable!Faultless!More, More, More! That’s president Buhari for you. All he wants is just naked power to prove people like the self styled evil genius, IBB, wrong that he could rule our embarrassment of a country called Nigeria again. If not, he would have seen through the thick skin of his yes men that…
UK adopts Canada-style private sponsorship model to resettle refugees
Photo credit: Aljazeera The UK has begun accepting applications from charities to lead a new refugee sponsorship program modelled on Canada’s private sponsorship system, with Kenya, Uganda and Egypt among seven countries where eligible refugees can initially be identified. Business Insider Africa reports that the program will allow approved community groups, universities and employers to help refugees relocate…
2,000 Salvadoran troops take quarters in Haiti to help fight gangs
Photo credit: Reuters A convoy of heavily armed Salvadoran troops was seen in the Tabarre neighbourhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, on Friday. They are part of 2,000 troops that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele deployed to the embattled country. The deployment of Salvadoran troops followed a gang attack on four Salvadoran members of the Gang Suppression…
