International Operation Uncovers Smuggling of Drugs, Weapons, …
Photo credit: BBC Smuggling of drugs, weapons, and counterfeit goods, as well as trafficking of…
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…
International Operation Uncovers Smuggling of Drugs, Weapons, …
Photo credit: BBC Smuggling of drugs, weapons, and counterfeit goods, as well as trafficking of irregular migrants, were uncovered during a week-long operation dubbed Balkan Bridge II that ended on Sunday, head of the General Directorate Border Police Anton Zlatanov and Deputy Director of the National Customs Agency Stefan Bakalov reported during a press briefing at the…
Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast
Photo credit: BBC Around 150 anti-migrant demonstrators gathered in a south coast town to stop a group of migrants, who had crossed the English Channel in a small boat, being brought ashore by the RNLI. BBC reports that some flares were set off and there were a few scuffles with police during the stand-off at…
Chapter 4 – The Collapse of Institutions
Nigeria – A Season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance Series for themigrant.online Opening Frame: When Institutions Collapse, Nations Don’t Fall – They Fade Nigeria’s crisis is often described as corruption, bad leadership, insecurity, or poverty. But beneath all these symptoms lies a deeper, more dangerous truth: Nigeria’s institutions have collapsed – not suddenly, but slowly,…
B’omode o J’Obi! – Adewale Sobowale
Abigail Marshal Katung, winner in the 2019 Leeds City Council elections. Councillor for Little London and Woodhouse Ward Of Leeds City Council. A video is currently going viral of a Nigerian politician. The video made by the BBC (Yoruba) is of a Nigerian female politician who recently won elections in the UK. In the video,…
Much ado about “nonsense”! – Adewale Sobowale
Did you know that most countries do not require educational certificates to be elected for any political post? What most countries require are citizenship, having lived in the country for a certain number of years and a specific age. Nigeria’s requirement for educational certificates might be a fallout from our colonial past when it was…
Chapter 3 – The Anatomy of A Broken Citizenship
Ngeria – A season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Citizenship Is the First Institution Before a nation can build courts, parliaments, refineries, or armies, it must build citizens. Citizens are the first institution of any republic – the foundation upon which all other institutions stand. When citizenship breaks, everything else follows:…
