Iran’s supreme leader dies!
Photo credit: CNN Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack…
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…
Iran’s supreme leader dies!
Photo credit: CNN Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early on Sunday, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability. The Times Colonist reports that President Donalld Trump announced the death saying…
Number of protests in Canada, growing …
Photo credit: Brandon News Toronto police estimated that 350,000 demonstrators took over the streets in the city’s north end on Feb. 14, Salarr Gholami, the lead organizer of Iran solidarity protests in Toronto, believes the crowd was much bigger than that. Toronto Today reports that the rally was one for the history books. Toronto police…
Safest countries to be if global conflict breaks out!
Antarcticahttps://youtu.be/eS6a6btDK8M?si=Tdrlr-K8yRiNGF7l The continent sits at the most southerly point of the planet making it one of the safest places to survive a nuclear war. There is an enormous geographic distance between Antarctica and countries with nuclear warheads. With more than 14 million square kilometres, there is plenty of room for people to take refuge. But some may find the…
Abe’Gi!!! – Adewale Sobowale
In Abeokuta, there’s a place that’s very dear to my heart. We call the place ‘abe igi’, under the shade of tree(s). The place is in Oke Ilewo, close to Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation, (OPIC). There, we discuss,debate,argue and drink socially. There is a newspaper distributor close by. Actually, most of us were…
The Library! – Adewale Sobowale
Toronto is a great city! It’s great not because it’s the capital of Ontario province. Ontario, of course, is a province in Canada! Neither is it great because of its dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers which are not even as tall as the impressive CN towers. This post is singing the praises…
Unitary State! – Adewale Sobowale
Apart from the first republic where each region was engaged in a healthy competition with the others, I fail to see any inkling of federalism not to talk of confederalism practised in Nigeria. Right from the first coup d’etat of January 15, 1966 which subsequently produced General Agui Ironsi aka Ironsides as the first military…
Ó kù, ó kù, n’íbon ńró! A lot to say!! – Adewale Sobowale
In my last post, I pled with folks who have a grouse against the INEC– announced results of Nigeria’s presidential election to go to the judiciary for redress. Incidentally, the results were announced in the middle of the night in Nigeria. A Yoruba saying asks what a farmer will be looking for at night! The…
