Poland to be held up as migration model in EU parliament resolution on Ceuta
Photo credit: Reuters European lawmakers are set to vote this week on a resolution addressing…
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…
Change Masters!!! – Adewale Sobowale
#Change begins with the individual. Mmmm! Dasorai!!! A riot act, isn’t it? Now, it has to begin with you and I since our rulers have put the enabling environment in place. To begin with every unemployed youth is given a tidy sum to tide him over until he gets a fitting employment. In any case,…
Who Says? – Adewale Sobowale
Who says Africa is underdeveloped? Those people might not even know that development includes the ability to conduct elections fairly. For instance, I received a letter in my mailbox yesterday notifying those concerned about Quebec’s election on Monday, October 1. All the things stated in the election time table will be nonsensical to the average…
Poland to be held up as migration model in EU parliament resolution on Ceuta
Photo credit: Reuters European lawmakers are set to vote this week on a resolution addressing the migrant crisis at Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa, with a section holding up in Poland’s border policies as a model for the bloc, according to a Polish MEP. More than 70,000 people crossed into Ceuta from Morocco in…
Trafficked into fraud: An African crisis situation in Cambodia
Photo credit: DW African nationals now form the largest group of those trafficked to and stranded in countries like Myanmar and Cambodia. DW Canada reports that in Cambodia, the main obstacles to facilitating any return are that many African countries, like Uganda, Liberia, and Ghana, have no consular representatives. “But also because some countries have zero interest,” says Montse…
200,000 Salvadorans in the US might be in a fix as TPS deadline nears
Photo credit: Daily Mail DHS said in a statement Wednesday that it will announce a decision on El Salvador “at the appropriate time” and that protections would remain in place until then. The Associated Press reports that about 200,000 people from El Salvador have lived in the US since 2001 under TPS, which allows people…
Porringer Wielding! – Adewale Sobowale
That Nigeria is begging for alms and carrying its porringer to countries that could help out is now a matter some people are wasting their time on. According to stories, Nigeria has gone to secure a loan of 328 million dollars from China to boost its telecommunications. What’s the problem of these wailers? After all…
Canadian dollar hits three-week high against US dollar
Photo credit: Reuters The Canadian dollar has found an unlikely pocket of strength just as the trade relationship with the United States is becoming more confrontational. On September 8, the loonie touched C$1.3790, or 72.52 US cents. The move came as Ottawa’s new counter-tariffs took effect and Washington prepared fresh restrictions on Canadian goods. Investing reports…
