Trump signs new executive orders seeking to limit birthright citizenship
Photo credit: BBC United States President Donald Trump has signed two new executive orders seeking to limit…
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…
Trump signs new executive orders seeking to limit birthright citizenship
Photo credit: BBC United States President Donald Trump has signed two new executive orders seeking to limit birthright citizenship, weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the practice as protected under the Constitution. Al Jazeera reports that the orders, signed on Thursday, were far narrower than Trump’s previous attempt to restrict the practice, which confers citizenship to nearly all…
Carney says US trade talks are “nasty” after Trump criticizes Canada’s leadership
Photo credit: The New York Times Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that trade negotiations with the United States had turned “nasty” after President Donald Trump derided America’s neighbour and its leadership while threatening to expand tariffs. AP reports Carney as saying Canada remained engaged in the negotiations despite Trump’s comments, describing the talks as a fight to…
Africa CDC plans to use vaccine for different strain of Ebola as outbreak spreads
Photo credit: DW African health authorities say they would start using a vaccine for the prior Zaire ebolavirus strain to treat the current outbreak involving a different, fast-spreading strain known as Bundibugyo. The ongoing outbreak is centred in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DW Canada reports that the director general of the African Centres for…
E Pepper for Mouth – Adewale Sobowale
I just heard the saying, ‘e pepper for mouth’ from the streets. I am not an ‘area boy’, neither am I an ‘area father’. Indeed, the only celebrated area father I know is C. Boy! However, I always say I am streetwise. But something happened to me in 1999 that put my so-called street wisdom…
Arresting Rural -Urban Migration in South Western Nigeria – Adewale Sobowale
I have a farmland somewhere in the southwest. We used to cultivate the land there and rear some birds in the not too distant past. However, for reasons that will be explained on another occasion, we no longer work there, at least, for now. Call me an absentee farmer if you like. In my active…
Carney pledges $2.7B for new affordable housing measures in Toronto
Photo credit: CBC The federal government is pledging $2.7 billion over three years to build more than 18 housing projects across the city of Toronto, Prime Minister Mzark Carney announced Wednesday. CBC reports that the partnership between the government of Canada and the city of Toronto inclides 5,600 rental homes, 1,800 of which will be “deeply affordable,” supportive or rent-controlled,…
Iran and the US say a Strait of Hormuz deal is close
Iran said Wednesday it is in the “final stage”: of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and US President Donald Trump has said a deal could be announced this week. Asia One reports it could potentially reopen the critical waterway, ease pressure in the world economy and help bring an end to the war. But…
