Canada’s economy set for best quarterly growth in more than three years
Photo credit: Reuters Canada’s economy grew by a greater-than expected 0.3% in May and looks…
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…
Canada’s economy set for best quarterly growth in more than three years
Photo credit: Reuters Canada’s economy grew by a greater-than expected 0.3% in May and looks set to turn in its best annualized quarterly performance for more than three years, official data indicated on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the economy to expand by 0.2% in May. Statistics Canada revised April’s growth up to 0.6%…
Moroccan migrants recount time in Spain’s Ceuta enclave
Photo credit: The Independent Migrants say hunger, lack of shelter, and harsh living conditions shattered expectations after crossing into the Spanish-administered enclave, as more than 48,000 head back to Morocco. Anadolu Ajansı reports that two Moroccan men who had returned home after entering the Spanish-administered enclave of Ceuta stated that harsh living conditions, food shortages, and…
Breakneck pace in immigration courts is driving up deportation orders
Photo credit: ABC News The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog. The result is a historic rise in the number of people missing court dates and being immediately ordered deported as the system struggles to keep up, new data shows. The…
Gotten Hold! – Adewale Sobowale
What brought me here in the first instance? A place where people’s healthcare is taken care of so much that they’ll be thinking heaven couldn’t be better. Anyway, we need to know whether people do fall sick in heaven! Even the hospitals here, sat on their ówn jejelly like Lagosians. I went on my way…
Ethiopian youth football team vanishes in Sweden after tournament
An alarming incident has unfolded in Sweden as 20 players and several adult handlers from an Ethiopian youth football team have reportedly gone missing after participating in an international tournament. The group failed to check out of their hotel and did not appear for their scheduled flight. Lente Desportiva reports that the disappearance involves the players aged…
Raid on Pakistani police post leaves 11 officers dead and 15 attackers dead
Photo credit: AP News The death toll from an overnight deadly militant attack on a police post in northwestern Pakistan rose to 11 early Thursday, police and a government official said. The Associated Press reports that security forces killed 15 militants in an hour-long gun battle after they targeted the Khazina police post in Hangu district…
