Human rights panel accuses Canada of genocide against Indigenous population
Photo credit: Canada’s National Observer An international human panel of human rights experts has accused Canada…
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…
CULPRITS: The Indictment Nigerians Were Never Meant to Read by Khaleed Yazeed
Dele Ogun’s “Culprits: The People and the Paper That Made Nigeria” is not a history book. It is a murder investigation. And the body is still warm. For two hundred years, we have been told that the Fulani jihad was a religious reformation. For a hundred years, we have been told that the 1914 Amalgamation…
Human rights panel accuses Canada of genocide against Indigenous population
Photo credit: Canada’s National Observer An international human panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal. CTV News reports that the Permanent People’s Tribunal was mandated to look at missing and disappeared children and unmarked graves at Canada’s residential school sites, as…
Aboriginal title can’t apply to private title, High Court rules
Photo credit: Facebook A new Brunswick ruling that Aboriginal title cannot be declared over private land has been allowed to stand by the Supreme Court of Canada, giving British Columbia an avenue to win its appeal in the landmark Cowichan Tribes case, BC’s attorney general has said. The Canadian Press reports Niki Sharma as saying the High Court’s refusal to hear an…
War, crisis and Ebola – children are hit hardest
Photo credit: The Guardian A child injured by a grenade raised suspicions of Ebola infection while on the operating table. The deadly hemorrhagic fever is spreading in the midst of a raging war with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, many of whom are children. The outbreak is truly a nightmare, says Dr Babou Rukengeza. Sweden Herald reports that…
Gbagbe e II – Adewale Sobowale
The Biafra secession was declared precisely fifty years ago. Most people are aware of what led to that action. While it lasted, the Igbo suffered so much. At the end of the day, General Ojukwu had to flee. He was possibly acting in accordance to a reggae song, ‘He who fights and runs away lives…
Knocker! – Adewale Sobowale
I am going through a feverish period. Since there is no one with me, I just started toying with various things which my illness might result into. If one is going to meet his God, he should not lie. OK! I was thinking of the grim reaper, death. The Yoruba even celebrate death by referring…
Olori Ebi! – Adewale Sobowale
Once upon a – not too long ago – time, one olori ebi had to retire. You know life is just like the army barracks. Soldiers go and soldiers come, but the barracks remain! Even before the predecessor left office, the successor’s name had been announced. Now, there were so many anti-people things that were…
