Ontario invests $35 million to expand Art Gallery of Ontario
Photo credit: Global News The Ontario government is protecting Canadian culture and identity by investing $35 million…
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…
Ontario invests $35 million to expand Art Gallery of Ontario
Photo credit: Global News The Ontario government is protecting Canadian culture and identity by investing $35 million in new capital funding over two years to support the Art Gallery of |Ontario’s (AGO’s) expansion project, the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Announced as part of the 2026 Ontario Budget: A Plan to Protect Ontario, this new funding will…
Mali accuses military officers of working with jihadis
Photo credit: BBC Some military officers in Mali worked with jihads and separatists who recently launched their biggest round of attacks in over a decade in the conflict-battered country, authorities have said. The Associated Press reports that the separatist fighters had said earlier in the day that they captured a strategic military camp in the northern…
Judge protects Yemeni refugees
Photo credit: Times Union A federal judge on Friday blocked the \trump administration from forcing about 3,000 Yemeni refugees to leave the US. The judge ruled that Temporary Protected Status repeatedly granted to them and due to expire Monday should be extended again. The Associated Press reports that Judge Dale E Ho in Manhattan extended the…
Are We Not All Beggars ? – Adewale Sobowale
There is no country like Nigeria. The people are unique in their Nigerianess. We tend to flex our muscles over non issues. We argue over inanities. That is why we are Nigerians! What is the business of lawmakers with begging and beggars? I understand some of our houses of assembly are busy legislating beggars off…
No Other Name! – Adewale Sobowale
I vividly remember Chief Ebenezer Obey’s song of the seventies, ‘Ohun ti o da o da’. In English, it means, ‘There is no other name to call a bad thing but bad’. It is no longer news that a section of the official residence of the Oba of Lagos, Iga Idunganran, was engulfed in a…
Daddy Ala’ja! Dog Owner!! – Adewale Sobowale
It was with a great sense of pity that I watched Dr Badamasi Lawal Charachi, the Katsina state commissioner for education, explaining away the mass purchase of dogs! By the way, Katsina is in Nigeria and it happens to be the state Mr Buhari hails from. All those people from a certain state in the…
Theocratic Democracy – Adewale Sobowale
As the head of the Political jagbajantis, sorry, directorate, of RCCG has declared that Osinbajo is the only child of God and pastor who can take Nigeria to the promised land, I wouldn’t think any primary is necessary again for all the political parties in Nigeria. We should just enthrone him as president with immediate…
