Canada to temporarily ban foreign nationals travelling from Congo over Ebola risk
The Liberal government in Ottawa will bar foreign nationals who have set foot in the…
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…
Canada to temporarily ban foreign nationals travelling from Congo over Ebola risk
The Liberal government in Ottawa will bar foreign nationals who have set foot in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past 21 days from entry to Canada due to the risk of importing the deadly Ebola virus. The Canadian Press reports that, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, the new temporary measure will come…
Nigeria’s trust deficit by Adewale Sobowale
I must confess that the current administration in Nigeria wowed me with the way the Oriire abductees were rescued or released. Some might be surprised by my conclusion, but given what I’ve observed so far, I believe it’s real. We have a saying that there’s no way a portion of a dog’s thigh would be shared…
Cockroach party supporters face police batons as they march in Delhi
Photo credit: Aljazeera Indian police baton-charged hundreds of protesting students and activists on Monday to prevent them from launching a march to the parliament. The Independent reports that the protesters are demanding the resignation of Education Minister Daharmendra Pradhan over a series of botched national exams. Ahead of the scheduled march, hundreds of people thronged Jantar Mantar in the…
Elder & Cow! – Adewale Sobowale
The Yoruba have a saying that concerns the elderly. The saying goes thus, ‘ogbon gbon lagbalagba fi nsa fun malu’. It literally translates to the fact that it’s with style that the elderly runs away from the ox. However, the deep meaning is that the elderly will always look before they leap. I thought OBJ…
Se Da Mo? Recognize It? – Adewale Sobowale
The way Nigerian politicians manipulate billions makes me wonder how many Nigerians have ever seen not to talk of being in control of a billion Nigerian Naira. I’m not even referring to the masses. If you’re not a big time contractor or a very affluent person, I very much doubt if you could have come…
Repented Terrorists… – Adewale Sobowale
We need to thank the APC for seeing to the repentance of terrorists. You see, I’ve always had this nagging thought that the problems of terrorism in Nigeria can only be solved through religious means. I was even playing with a thought that since the two foremost candidates of the APC look like terrorists, they’ll…
Searching for the Messiah! – Adewale Sobowale
Yoruba tradition is so replete with wise sayings. One of them is of a person that goes to the palm tree without doing anything while expecting his mouth to be filled with sweet syrupy palmwine. O sa’gi l’ogbe, o t’oguro l’ofa, o de’di ope, o gbenu s’oke, ofe nii nro na? A former president of…
