Carney budget promises to end homelessness within 10 years
Photo credit: The New York Times The federal government is betting big on a recently…
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…
Carney budget promises to end homelessness within 10 years
Photo credit: The New York Times The federal government is betting big on a recently created Crown corporation to boost homebuilding, promising billions to expand the role off Build Canada Homes (BCH) Parliament Today reports that Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne’s 2026 budget was tabled in the House late Thursday. It lays out the “next steps” of the government’s…
Netanyahu’s rival set to be asked to form government in Israeli election fallout
Photo credit: SBS Israeli President Isaac Herzog will announce on Sunday whom he will ask to form a new government, after the opposition’s Gadi Eisenkot secured a commanding number of recommendations to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. SBS News reports that Herzog has held a second day of consultations with political parties after the 27…
Centre eases immigration rules for Pakistani, Afghan minorities and other foreign nationals
The Union home ministry has relaxed passport and visa requirements for several categories of foreign nationals residing in India, including Pakistani citizens who entered prior to December 31, 2009 with the intention to permanently reside in India but could not renew their Pakistani passport due to non-possession of computerized nationality identity card issued by the Pakistan government. The…
Could Our Society be Saner? – Adewale Sobowale
A friend sent a video to me some twenty four hours ago on whatsapp. That video made me ask the question, Are we OK? In the video, five boys are caught after they have burgled a shop. When I say they are boys, well, they are boys. But permit me to say that they just…
UNHCR criticizes UK’s 30-year “earned settlement” plans for refugees
Photo credit: The Guardian The UN refugee agency has said a government plan to make refugees wait up to 30 years before they get permission to settle in the UK “raises significant concerns”. The Guardian reports that the strategy was unveiled earlier this week by Shhabana Mahmood, the home secretary, as she announced a softening of aspects of…
Scammed African man spent almost a year in Cambodia trying to go home
The 33-year-old man, lured to Cambodia with the offer of a receptionist job, endured daily beatings for a month, locked in a dark room somewhere in the Southeast Asian country. He didn’t know where he was, but he knew the price of his freedom: $6,000. ABC News reports that the man had arrived from Ghana…
