2.4 million Afghan girls shut out of secondary school 5 years after Taliban takeover, UN says
Photo credit: NBC News An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary school…
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…
2.4 million Afghan girls shut out of secondary school 5 years after Taliban takeover, UN says
Photo credit: NBC News An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary school education five years after the Taliban took over the country, a UN agency said Tuesday, renewing a call for an immediate restoration of their right to education. AP reports that UNESCO, the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said the…
The Garden! – Adewale Sobowale
Who is in the garden?A seventy+man! That the Nigerian President, Mr Mohammed Buhari is ill is no longer news. It is stale news. What I like about his illness is the fact that we are using it to show the rest of the world how caring Nigerians could be. Check out how many government officials…
That Aketi Video! – Adewale Sobowale
That the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, made good news over the weekend is an understatement. I never knew Nigerians were so moralistic. However, most of those who spoke against the governor’s video did not see anything wrong in the travails of Sowore. I said it somewhere and I’m repeating it that a supposedly democratic…
‘Allah’s Fighters!’ – Adewale Sobowale
According to the holy bible, when the oxen carrying the ark of God stumbled while being taken to Jerusalem, Uzzah tried to steady the ark. That was a violation of the divine law. He met with instant justice. The Lord killed him! God loved Moses. Why did He not let him see the promised land…
Yeye Dey Smell! – Adewale Sobowale
So, 31 lawyers of Northern extraction want to defend the embattled Kyari! Ah tor!! Nigeria is a country of ‘nothing is impossible. but then nothing sensible is happening. If not, the lawyers who are supposedly learned ought to know it’s only lawyers who have been inducted into a US bar that can defend an accused….
Abigail George, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award Winner
Powerful moments at the conclusion of the Gauteng International Book Festival 2023 in Soweto as the Sol Plaatje European Union finalists share their poetry with a full house. Congratulations Abigail George for taking first prize!
Mzi Mahola, spiritual warriors and poetic choice
I am alone. I stand alone. I achieved it. I am excellent. But poets, what do you believe in? There are days when I am not myself. When I speak terrible Czech. Mouthing, ‘I need you’. The trajectory shifts. I find arrows in my right hand. My sister is not here. I testify my heart…
