Nepal flood deaths rise to 469
Photo credit: Asia News Network Over 469 people have been killed, and nearly 1,500 are…
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…
Nepal flood deaths rise to 469
Photo credit: Asia News Network Over 469 people have been killed, and nearly 1,500 are missing after a massive flash flood hit Nepal this week, as authorities in China flagged more geological risks upstream. Indians make up the largest number of missing foreigners, with Nepal’s new tourism board’s data showing 178 people from the country were missing….
Kidnappers in Nigeria collected more than $5 million in ransoms in a year, analysts say
Kidnappers in Nigeria collected more than $500 million in ransom payments over the last year, a Lagos-based intelligence group said on Thursday, as the country faces a multifaceted security crisis. The Associated Press reports that according to Kehinde Giwa, a security analyst at SBM Intelligence, “For every ransom that is paid for a kidnapping incident, you…
Name of Lake Ontario not changing despite ‘Trump’s antics,’ political leaders in Canada say
Photo credit: CBC Political leaders in Canada are speaking out against an executive order by US President Donald Trump to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, saying the move is offensive and doesn’t hold water north of the border. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a post on social media on Thursday that…
All Correct Sir! – Adewale Sobowale
The federal government has, through the director general of the National Council for Arts and Culture. To usher in the 2017 African Arts and Craft Expo starting in Abuja today, Olusegun Runsewe was said to have gleefully announced that this would affect subsequent cultural events to be held in the country. After banning what it…
Runsewe’s Ranting! – Adewale Sobowale
He’s positioned as the Director-General for Arts and Culture. Anytime he wants to justify his post and pay, he must go deep in arrant nonsense. He was reported to have dwelt on the Nigerian crossdresser, Bob Risky in a recent interview. As we used to say in those, not too far days, of my youth,…
The New “offence” – Adewale Sobowale
I’m reading it’s now an offence in Ondo state of Nigeria for civil servants to send their wards to private schools. That means it’s a must for them to send them to public schools. As much as I love the patriotism of the governor who is a one time president of the NBA, the association…
The high horse! – Adewale Sobowale
Sometime in the not-too-far past, I used to visit Togo frequently. Of course, you can only visit Togo from Nigeria through the Republic of Benin. At least, that’s the only route I know. Since the hotel I usually stayed in was on the Togo-Ghana border, I usually used the opportunity to visit the beautiful Kwame…
