Trump may cancel 259th US anniversary concerts after artists drop out
Photo credit: CBC US President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s considering cancelling a series 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…
Trump may cancel 259th US anniversary concerts after artists drop out
Photo credit: CBC US President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s considering cancelling a series of concerts commemorating the country’s 250th anniversary after several artists dropped out , and he may give a speech instead. CBC News reports that Trump said on social media that he was considering giving a speech and rally instead, and called…
Clash erupts over migration in Hungarian parliament
Photo credit: Euro News Prime Minister Peter Magyar and opposition politicians clashed in parliament this week over how long the Tisza government could resist the European Commission’s migration pact. The Budapest Times reports that László Toroczkai, leader of the right-wing Mi Hazánk party, told the prime minister that he could not continue presenting himself domestically…
For 50 years, Filipino nuns worked in factories and lived in slum areas, accompanying people at the margins
Photo credit: Global Sisters Report A nun in a blue veil sweeps fallen leaves at Queen Memorial Circle. Around her, couples linger on benches. It’s not the kind of place where one would expect to find a religious sister at work. A report in the Global Sisters Report states that one day, a nun from another…
Obelawo – Adewale Sobowale
I am not necessarily a gourmet. And this could be because I am no gourmand. Something tells me it’s because I eat sparingly. In fact, I’m not the best of customers to food sellers. That’s why I always wonder when people say they are going to have a seven course meal. I know they may…
On Adedoyin! – Adewale Sobowale
That Ramon Adedoyin has been sentenced to death is no news. However, I’m more concerned about what he and his fellow felons had intended using the corpse for. I learn, he is a medical doctor. Could he have intended using the body or the vital organs for an insane experiment? Did he need the corpse…
CULPRITS: The Indictment Nigerians Were Never Meant to Read by Khaleed Yazeed
Dele Ogun’s “Culprits: The People and the Paper That Made Nigeria” is not a history book. It is a murder investigation. And the body is still warm. For two hundred years, we have been told that the Fulani jihad was a religious reformation. For a hundred years, we have been told that the 1914 Amalgamation…
Human rights panel accuses Canada of genocide against Indigenous population
Photo credit: Canada’s National Observer An international human panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal. CTV News reports that the Permanent People’s Tribunal was mandated to look at missing and disappeared children and unmarked graves at Canada’s residential school sites, as…
