Toronto food banks’ rice shipment struck near Iran
Photo credit: The Star Effects of the Mideast conflict are now reverberating in Toronto after a shipment of…
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…
Toronto food banks’ rice shipment struck near Iran
Photo credit: The Star Effects of the Mideast conflict are now reverberating in Toronto after a shipment of rice meant for the city’s Daily Bread Food Bank was struck on Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz near Iran, the food bank’s CEO says. CBC News reports that, according to the CEO, Neil Hetherington, “All of the details are still being…
Cuba to release 51 people from prison
Photo credit: NPR Cuba’s government said on Thursday that it would release 51 people from prison in an unexpected move. The Canadian Press reports that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the release in the upcoming days stems from a spirit of goodwill and close relations with the Vatican. The government did not identify who it would release except to…
Migrant surge heats up New Zealand’s housing market
Photo credit: moamag New Zealand’s migration cycle is turning higher again, with ASB highlighting that stronger-than-expected inflows could add to demand and inflation pressures, which in turn may influence mortgage rates and borrowing capacity. NZA reports that ASB economist Wesley Tanuvasa notes that “there is growing evidence that the migration cycle is on the up” with permanent…
Oju Ekun Npon! – Adewale Sobowale
I’m never shy to declare the rather obvious fact that I attended a public primary school. In fact, I still remember some of the songs we used to sing in school then. I also remember some of the tales. And the games! Yeah, the games!! One of them was Ekun meran! It was all about…
Ko ni buru titi…! It won’t be so bad…! – Adewale Sobowale
There’s this Yoruba saying that It won’t be so bad for someone to be pleading with their dead ward to come to save them on earth. But as things are, our wards aren’t dead. In fact, they’ve stopped being “lazy” and hearkened to our helplessness in doing what’s right. They’ve obviously realized that we are…
UN condemns “$1 billion-a-day” cost of war in Middle East
Photo credit: Economic Times The UN’s emergency relief chief on Wednesday condemned the “$$1 billion-a-day” cost of the war in the Middle East, at a time when humanitarian needs are soaring, and aid funding is falling dangerously short. “We’re seeing the consequences spread faster than we can respond”, warned the UN emergency relief chief, Tom Fletcher, as violence…
Wartime Winners and Losers
Photo credit: Spectrum News Governments around the world agreed to release 400 million barrels from emergency oil reserves to ease surging global energy prices on Wednesday. Bloomberg reports that it’s the largest discharge ever made by the International Energy Agency. With that amount of oil, one could theoretically fill 25,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools of 20 NFL stadiums, fuel a…
