UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy
Photo credit: The Guardian Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from…
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…
UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy
Photo credit: The Guardian Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, Eritrean diplomats will face restrictions on their movement outside London. Fast-track visas will also be stopped for VIPs. Ministers have previously pressured other…
North Korea tests two submarine-launched missiles
Photo credit: Aljazeera North Korea had test-fired two types of submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the sea off its east coast, state media KCNA reports. The test-fire on Wednesday aimed to examine the reliability of war deterrents and improve the navy’s skill in performing strategic missions, the outlet said. One of the missiles fired was a Pulhwasal-3-31,…
Libya executing people based on secret trials
Photo credit: the independent Libya has executed at least 31 people since late August following military trials, marking the country’s first known executions since 2010, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The Associated Press reports that the rights group said it had documented the executions carried out by the self-styled LIbyan National Army (LNA) as of…
Open Letter to Fela – Adewale Sobowale
Kalakuta Annex,Heavenly Kingdom. Kalakuta Republic,Idi Oro,Nigeria. Eleniyan,How you dey? Se all de Lady dey ok. I mean your queenly queens. I sure say you no be Gentleman for heaven. In your last letter, you talk say Expensive Shit dey worry you. Maybe na because of the Water No Get Enemy wey you take. Wetin go…
Did We Waste Them? – Adewale Sobowale
If Fela had been alive, he ought to have been seventy nine today. I mean our own Fela would have been seventy nine years old today. He lived his life struggling. Indeed, the struggle, our struggle, was his life. Good enough, he did not walk the treacherous way alone. He did in the company of…
Abami Eda! – Adewale Sobowale
A leta to Fela!! Dear Baba 70, I wan jollifficate with you on your eightieth birthday. You know say all de tins wey you sing about still dey happen for Nigeria, even Africa. Dem com dey yarn say you be prophet. Dem no know say na angel you be. Sebi dem tell you say na…
Buhari’s Foolishness! – Adewale Sobowale
At least, I’ve not said he’s dumb. I wouldn’t want to incur the wrath of a valued friend But isn’t it foolishness for Mr Buhari to announce his willingness to reform the police? It’s not an unexpected pity that he couldn’t see that youth are not only fighting for the end of SARS. Indeed, they’re…
