
Trump targets Canada’s digital service tax!
Photo credit: Toronto Star US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new trade policy, dubbed…
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…
Photo credit: Toronto Star US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new trade policy, dubbed the “Fair and Reciprocal Plan,” aimed at countering what he calls unfair international trade practices. ic reports that part of the plan takes specific aim at Canada’s Digital Service Tax (DST), which the US claims unfairly targets American tech companies. According to the…
All hell was almost let loose in Nigeria as the federal government and some former diplomats on Thursday condemned Canada’s decision to deny visas to top military chiefs, including the Chief of Army Staff. An apparently frustrated Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s national security adviser, at the maiden annual lecture of the National Association of the Institute…
Photo credit: the Guardian Zimbabwean migrant workers in the UK are among those heavily exploited in the European nation, a new report has shown. News Day reports that in its new titled Caring at a Cost: A Survey of Migrant Care Staff Working in the UK, UK trade union UNISON found out that Zimbabwean migrants…
Photo credit: BBC Some people might not know I’ve given up on Buhari. Why shouldn’t I? Ore kinni’pa se fun’di? A kuku’joye san j’enu mi o ka’lu lo! I believe he’s either being wicked or he’s not aware of the situation of things in the country he’s failed to rule well. I don’t want to…
The so-called celebration of love is manifesting itself in various ways in Nigeria. I’ll keep on saying it that the European experience just can’t be summarily imposed on Africans. Not because Africans are less human, but because cultures tend to differ from place to place. When we call our traditional rulers kings, I would rather…
I beg to be different!Adewale SobowaleYeah!! As far as being straightjacketed is concerned, I’m just too old to change! I’ll not be caught, except when necessary, doing aso ebi, uniform, for social functions. I certainly won’t be caught going to church only on Christmas day. I have stopped going to church only on New Year’s…