Canada’s defence minister calls US deal on Greenland “encouraging”
Photo credit: Citynews National Defence Minister David McGuinty says the United States’ deal to boost…
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…
Canada’s defence minister calls US deal on Greenland “encouraging”
Photo credit: Citynews National Defence Minister David McGuinty says the United States’ deal to boost its military presence in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish control is “encouraging.” Global News reports that US President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denmark after months of threatening to take the island by force…
Saudi Arabia says Houthis tried to attack its capital
Photo credit: Aljazeera Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed Yemen’s Houth i rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war. The Associated Press reports that the Saudi authorities said the attack…
Shroud displaying names of 20,000 Palestinian children unveiled at UN headquarters
Photo credit: the Jerusalem Post A hundred-meter-long shroud with the handwritten names of more than 20,000 Palestinian children was put on display at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, Ynet reported on Friday. The Jerusalem Post reports that the exhibition called “The Shroud of the Children of Gaza,” was organized by a coalition of…
Off NEPA! by Adewale Sobowale
NEPA used to be Nigeria’s electric supply monopoly before we started having the Power Holding Companies. I understand Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Mr Joseph Tegbe, said some Nigerians are asking him to slow down the so-called improvements in electric supply because their freezers are over freezing. If that’s true, even at 18 hours per day,…
Matter Don Pass Cry Cry! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s a common saying, at least in Nigeria, that when a matter has gone beyond crying one should laugh! So, is the case of thieves actually making their ways into a police station in Ebute Meta, Nigeria and stealing a television set. Haba! Let’s look at it in the proper perspective. A police station is…
Lower Than Lowest! – Adewale Sobowale
I learn Edo politics is now so low that one Kabaka was saying on the campaign ground that people shouldn’t vote for Obaseki because he’s childless. Haba! I believe Kabaka must have been tombo drunk before he could utter such a petty statement. But then, I wouldn’t blame him. I would rather blame the people…
Hundreds rally at Turkey’s embassy in Uganda to demand a dissident’s extradition
Hundreds of Ugandans demonstrated outside the Turkish Embassy on Friday to demand the extradition of a dissident whose online activities are seen by local authorities as anti-government propaganda. AP reports that the dissident, Fred Lumbuye, has lived for years in Turkey, but his legal status there is unclear. His posts about Ugandan politics are viewed by…
