UK tells blind Nigerian pensioner to go home to India
Photo credit: The Guardian A blind Nigerian pensioner who has lived in the UK for…
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…
UK tells blind Nigerian pensioner to go home to India
Photo credit: The Guardian A blind Nigerian pensioner who has lived in the UK for 26 years has been told by the Home Office she can safely “go home” to India. The Guardian reports that the 67-year-old woman arrived in the UK in 2000, and shortly after suddenly went blind due to acute glaucoma. After living there…
Opposition marches in Bangui against rising cost of living
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Friday to protest the rising cost of living in the country. African News reports that Samson Ngaibino, a member of the opposition BRDC told the Africanews that, “People in the Central African Republic can no longer afford to live.” “That is why the population has…
Charity-run kitchens feed hungry Cubans
Photo credit: AP News Every night, hundreds of people line up outside a charity-run food pantry in the heart of Havana, some sleeping on the sidewalk as they wait for what may be their only meal of the day. The Associated Press reports that when the doors open at 7 am, people hurry inside carrying numbered…
Order! – Adewale Sobowale
That a cop was dead drunk on duty in the state of aquatic splendor is no longer news. An inspector for that matter. And yeah, he got what he deserved. In these days of job seekers being more than the employed, a person will now be playing with his work. It was good riddance to…
Burning Bridges! – Adewale Sobowale
He was my pupil. His dad used to be my PTA chairman. Not only was he chairman, I thought we were very close. And as I do to all friends who make me alcohol-tipsy, I was ready to give my life for him. When I had a health issue while at the school, I noticed…
Ade Principal! – Adewale Sobowale
I happened to have come across some of the nicest people in the world – I’m still coming across them – in my sojourn in this transitory earth. The very thoughts of them give me so much happiness that I can’t but keep celebrating them. One of those people is a guy I encountered at…
