Honda suspends 15B EV plant in Ontario
Photo credit: CBC Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15 – billion electric vehicle…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Photo credit: CBC Honda has indefinitely suspended its plans for a $15 – billion electric vehicle complex in Ontario due to changing business conditions. CBC reports that the Japanese automaker said last May it was pausing development at the plant, with plans to review where the EV market was at in two years. The decision to more…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Over 40 percent of Sudan’s population is being faced by acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, the three-year civil war having created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Al Jazeera reports that nearly 19.5 million Sudanese people are facing such dire circumstances, the United Nations-backed Food…
Photo credit: Washington Post Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians set sail from Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday in the latest attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza – just weeks after Israel intercepted a previous flotilla and detained two activists. The Associated Press reports that more than 50 vessels departed from…
Nigeria has no business being in this sorry state. At the last count it was said that two-thirds of the states in Nigeria could not even pay their workers’ salaries. Now, the federal government has thrown away the controversial subsidy. Petrol (PMS) is now sold for a whopping one hundred and forty five naira! For…
Those ruling us have a lot of compassion. In fact, their love of humanity definitely knows no bounds. That’s why the Kano State government has budgeted a whopping sum of 345 million naira to feed the foodless during the thirty day Ramadan that’s expected to commence on Thursday. The Northern States have generally been consistent…
Photo credit: The Economic Times Oil prices edged up Thursday as investors awaited a meeting between US President Donaald Trump and Chinese President XI Jinping later in the day, as traders focused on the Iran war. Business Standard reports that Brent crude futures were up 13 cents, or 0.12 per cent, to $1o05.76 a barrel by 0015 GMT,…
Photo credit: Arise News Under a continuing US blockade, Cuba has absolutely no reserves of diesel or fuel oil, said the country’s energy minister “We have no fuel oil, no diesel,” Vicente de La o Levy was quoted as saying by local media. “We have absolutely no fuel (oil), and absolutely no diesel,” Energy Minister Vincent…