Within the past week, serious tensions flared up again between Israel and Palestine, after Hamas, the leading militant group in Gaza, staged a terrorist attack on Israel. The attackers killed nearly 1,000
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July 10 and 11 2023, witnessed celebrations in commemoration of the 20 years of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women, also called
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The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ahmed Mustapha Habib, on Saturday, July 15 held a high-level media capacity building workshop for journalists. The workshop is part of government’s
MoreAlmost every day, humanity confronts emergencies in forms of natural and man-made disasters. Disasters are so named because of the scale of impacts on human lives and environment, property, finances and future.Earthquakes,
MorePresident Bola Tinubu on Sunday emerged as the new chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). With this, he becomes
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The recent collapse of a seven-story building in Banana Island, Lagos, was one tragedy too many for a country that is now the worst rated in such incidents in Africa. Not surprisingly,
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In every civil society, social institutions like the courts stand as the final and important arbiters in social relationships, especially when they go sour. However, in Nigeria, ‘go to court’ has recently
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Nigeria and Russia have had a mixed bag of relations, which often sweetened or soured based on the direction of support of incumbent regimes. As of 2021, trade between the two nations
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From Obasanjo through Jonathan/Yar’Ardua to Buhari, Nigeria’s democratic experience since 1999 has been a spending spree on bogus and wasteful national projects. Power, transport, petroleum, refineries, foreign exchange, industrial production, inflation control,
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Last Friday, former British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, resigned from parliament. He had learned of the damning report of the House of Commons Privileges Committee, which investigated a Covid-era parties he organized
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