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The battle for control of the western city of El Fasher has intensified over the last few days.
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After initiation rites – including circumcision – the boys leave their families to take charge of the herds, driving them high into the mountains. It's a way of life that climate change is testing.
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded plans to receive fresh loan funding from the World Bank, with approval expected for loans totalling $2.25bn on June 13, 2024. The funding will be received via two major development projects. The first project is the Nigeria Reforms for Economic...
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The 10th edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA), was held amid pomp and pageantry at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos State last night. Ik Osakioduwa returned as the host for the 10th consecutive year. Chimezie Imo won the Trailblazer Award, while Industry Merit Awards were...
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Aviation industry experts have raised heavy concerns after an aircraft belonging to XeJet Airline skidded off the runway at the domestic wing of Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos State yesterday. According to a terse statement released by the airline on Sunday morning, there were no casualties. In...
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It was a heated moment as dozens of Virginia Commonwealth University students walked out of their graduation ceremony yesterday, partly over a speaker’s response – the state governor – to campus protests. It happens as US school administrators prepare for potential disruptions of...
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The immediate past governor of Rivers State and the incumbent Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, apologized to the people of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area to forgive him over the mistake he made in picking Governor Siminalaye Fubara to succeed him as Governor. Wike who...
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Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced a ban on dollar transactions at foreign embassies in Nigeria, warning that anyone who engages in such henceforth will be severely dealt with The anti-graft agency said that the Nigerian local...
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The over 750-kilometre-long line is the first electrified transnational railway in East Africa.
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Prince Uche Secondus, a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has attributed the lingering political crisis in Rivers State to the pursuit of selfish interest by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. While speaking to journalists in Abuja on Sunday,...
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Vice President Kashim Shettima has asserted that Nigeria’s tax reforms under the administration of President Bola Tinubu are targeted at improving the system for the overall benefit of all Nigerians and not to frustrate them as insinuated by the opposition. He said contrary to speculations in some...
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The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti has called on the founder of CSS Global Integrated Farms, Nasarawa State, John-Kennedy Opara to establish an agricultural farm in the state, assuring him that the state is business friendly. Otti made this call on Saturday, while speaking at a capacity-building...
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On a three-day visit to Nigeria to promote his Invictus Games, Prince Harry on Saturday played a seated volleyball match with army veterans, most wounded in battle against the country's Islamist insurgency.
Experts from ECOWAS member states held a meeting in Lomé, Togo, precisely between May 6 and 8, 2024, to examine in detail, the draft supplementary Act relating to cooperation in suppressing illicit maritime activities in the ECOWAS region. In order to guarantee that comprehensive, accurate, and...
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The Labour leader confirmed he would scrap the Rwanda scheme in his Dover speech, then confusingly blurred his own argument
Could Keir Starmer “Make Asylum Boring Again”? That would be the ultimate test of success for his claim that he can grip the issue that has caused...
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The Duchess was speaking at an event in Abuja to highlighted the importance of female leadership and empowerment.
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Tunis, Tunisia — Tunisian security forces stormed the bar association in Tunis and arrested the lawyer and political commentator Sonia Dahmani after she made comments on television about the state of the country, her lawyers said.
The arrest late Saturday was covered live by the France 24 news...
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The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) held a validation workshop for the ECREEE 2023-2027 Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan Report the 9 May 2024 in […]
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On May 10th, Yin Chengwu, Chinese Ambassador to Liberia, met with Ms. Bintia Stephen Tchicaya, the Representative of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The two sides exchanged views on strengthening multilateral cooperation in the […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside their school in Kenya's capital. They hoped the fully grown bamboo would help to filter filthy air from one of Africa's largest trash dumps next door.
More than 100 bamboo plantings dot the...
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