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…