Chapter 3 – The Anatomy of Broken Citizenship
Ngeria – A season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance for themigrant.online Opening Frame: Citizenship Is…
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…
Chapter 3 – The Anatomy of 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:…
Ma Ta’Mi Simi…Splatter? – Adewale Sobowale
I’m the most respectful person. But then, there’s a catch to it, ‘All things being equal’. In any case, respect begets respect. Nobody is begging anyone to offer themselves to serve the people. They must have something to offer the people in terms of qualitative services. If they don’t have anything to offer, then they…
Egypt arrests editorial team of independent media
Egyptian authorities swept up the entire editorial team of one of the country’s few independent media, accusing them on Thursday of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The Associated Press reports that the arrest this week of the six journalists of Matsadaash sparked an outcry from international and regional rights groups who called it an “alarming escalation on…
6-year-old girl played crucial role in stopping plane disaster
Photo credit: The Mirro A brave six-year-old girl and her mother played a vital role in thwarting an alleged attempted hijacking on a FlyDubai flight bound for Israel. Mirror reports that Nina Manes was on the plane when chaos erupted, having boarded with her mother, Tali and father, Tzika, on the way to Tel Aviv from Dubai. Nina…
Nigeria – A Season of Betrayals
Chapter 1 – The Nigerian Condition Opening Meditation: What Does It Mean to Be Nigerian? To speak of the Nigerian condition is to speak of a paradox – a nation overflowing with talent yet starved of opportunity, rich in resources yet poor in outcomes, loud in hope yet quiet in accountability. It is to describe…
The Slaughter Slab! – Adewale Sobowale
A bull is never friends with the slaughter slab. He knows the place signifies its end. One other thing a bull is perpetually afraid of is anything red. Red stands for bloodshed. So a bull feels it in the subconscious that nothing red is too good for it However, Lagosians tend to believe that the…
