US and Iran conclude peace talks after Trump threats
Photo credit: Thr Guardian “Positive and constructive” talks between the US and Iran in Switzerland have…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
There’s nothing to beat the communal life of Africans. This is most especially exemplified by the Yoruba. If they don’t see someone in a day, by midday that person would have received, at least, half a dozen callers. They would have come to see if he is ok. Amongst the Yoruba, greetings are very important….
In my innocence, I used to think grey hair and baldness went with riches and wisdom. Not until I started having both did I realise my belief was nothing but a ruse. The grey hair started with an obscure strand. But it is all over me now, even in the unlikeliest of places. What’s more,…
The minimum wage issue has been a topic of discussion in Nigeria for quite a while. Organized labour discussed the matter with the governments and the private sector. The labour first asked for around a million naira, but the government said it wasn’t willing to pay that whopping amount. The government said it was only…
Instead of the argument going on in Nigeria on whether or not Mr Tinubu supported the annulment of the June 12, 1993, election, I think it would have been better if the “debaters” found something else to do. Yes, my stance remains that justice must be served concerning the best election to have taken place…
Photo credit: Thr Guardian “Positive and constructive” talks between the US and Iran in Switzerland have wound up after a tense opening marked by Tehran’s announcement it had again closed the Strait of Hormuz and US President Donald Trump repeating his threats of more attacks on Iran. The New Daily reports that a joint statement on Monday…
Photo credit: Kurdistan24 An explosion at a factory in Qatar injured 54 people and left 18 missing, the Gulf state’s interior ministry said Monday. Gulf News reports that according to the ministry, a “technical incident” caused the blast on Sunday in Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial zone. The ministry added that authorities were searching for the…
Photo credit: AP News Cape Verde’s magical start to its first \World \cup isn’t over. It might just be getting started. AP World Cup reports that the tiny island nation that stunned tournament favourite Spain last week did it again against Uruguay – a two-time World Cup champion – on Sunday, coming from behind for…