5 bodies of migrants washed ashore in Tripoli!
Photo credit: Arab News At least five bodies of migrants, including two women, have been…
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…
5 bodies of migrants washed ashore in Tripoli!
Photo credit: Arab News At least five bodies of migrants, including two women, have been washed ashore in Qasar al-Akyyar, a coastal town in the east of Libya’s capital, Tripoli, a police officer told Reuters on Saturday. Hassan Al-Ghawil, head of investigations at the Qasr Al-Akhyar police station, said that according to people in the area,…
Top 10 best-governed countries in Africa…
African countries are showing steady gains in political rights and press freedom, showing stronger democratic openness. However, weak rule of law and corruption control continue to limit overall governance performance across much of the continent. The Business Insider Africa reports that governance usually sounds like a dry policy word politicians throw around at conferences. But…
Breaking Boundaries – Adewale Sobowale
To some people, I am a spoilsport as far as the Buhari government is concerned. This is because they erroneously believe that, no matter what the government does, I will criticise it. Well, I’m not in the habit of criticising anyhow. I am shocking them with my views on the whistle-blowing policy of the government….
A Cow’s Diary! – Adewale Sobowale
We must beware of animalnappers. Nigerians now believe this is the year of animals. In fact, some who hated animals are now looking into the establishment of zoos. For some Nigerians, anything that brings money is worth investing in. For those of us that have our faiths sealed in the flimsy protection of this court,…
A Cow’s Diary! – Adewale Sobowale
Sons of men will always claim they are higher animals. But it’s not as if they are right. As that man with bushy grey hair said, ‘A tiger does not need to announce its tigritude. It roars’. In the course of our looking for food, which is rather scarce at this time, I was able…
Parable of The Diamond! – Adewale Sobowale
A fowl swallowed a diamond in a poultry and the owner of the diamond contracted a man to find the fowl and kill it. When the man arrived at the poultry, there were more than a thousand fowls in the poultry. But one was sitting by itself away from the others. The executioner killed that…
