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I want to be Nigeria’s first female vice-president — Fateemah Mohammed
Tribune Online
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June 22, 2025
Hon. Fateemah Mohammed believes she can achieve any task and fulfil her dreams no matter how tall they seem. Mohammed, who is passionate about women’s empowerment, speaks with Yetunde Ajanaku about her campaign for justice and opportunity for all...
President Erdoğan receives Grand Youth Award from top OIC body
Daily Sabah
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June 22, 2025
Grand Youth Award of Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF), an affiliate of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) based in Istanbul, was presented to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Friday. Erdoğan received the award at a ceremony held at...
World Refugee Day: Ghana, three others host 160,000 refugees and asylum seekers – EU
Joy FM
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June 22, 2025
As conflict continues to uproot communities across the Central Sahel, the European Union (EU) has announced €10 million in new funding to support forcibly displaced people and the communities hosting them in the neighbouring coastal countries of...
DepEd targets K-3 learners to fix crisis
Philstar
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June 21, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd) is ramping up efforts to strengthen foundational learning from Kindergarten to Grade 3 as part of its strategy to address the country’s learning crisis. Education Assistant Secretary for...
Uzbekistan studying option of a four-unit VVER-1000 plant
World Nuclear News
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Friday, 20 June 2025 Rosatom has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan's Uzatom Atomic Energy Agency to study a possible gigawatt-scale nuclear power plant featuring two or four VVER-1000 units. (Image: Strana Rosatom) The announcement came at the...
Democracy Dividends, GDP Growth, Poverty, And Insecurity In Nigeria (2)
Daily Independent
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June 19, 2025
1 After twenty-six years of unbroken democratic practice in Nigeria (1999 to date), the masses had hoped that by now they would be reaping the dividends of democracy—envisioned as the alleviation of poverty and the elevation of prosperity. But to...
As Benue Burns: 'enough Not Enough', Mr President, Do Something!
The Nigerian Voice
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Once again, communities in Benue State – the acclaimed "Food Basket of the Nation – are under attack, with death and destruction everywhere. Naturally, the survivors, from crying, moaning and wailing, will run to seek refuge and shelter in...
African Presidents Who Died in Exile/Abroad with Disputed Burials
Zambian Observer
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June 21, 2025
African Presidents Who Died in Exile/Abroad with Disputed Burials By Brenda Zulu If the former sixth President of Zambia Edgar Changwa Lungu is finally buried in South Africa as the family wishes, he will join a list of African leaders whose...
The List Of NPP's Proposed Invincible Projects: Where Did Th...
Modern Ghana
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The NPP, the opposition government, not only embezzled and looted state properties and laundered money to put many institutions in debt or bankruptcy, but it also cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue from projects either approved...
Bishop Okonkwo At 80, Urges Tinubu To Leave Legacy, Offers Free Cataract Surgeries
Daily Independent
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June 22, 2025
1 As part of activities leading to his 80th birthday celebration scheduled for September 6, 2025, Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Dr. Mike Okonkwo, on Monday called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to seize the moment to...
Here Are The Countries With The Highest Rabies Risk As Doctors Warn UK Holidaymakers
HuffPost UK
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June 20, 2025
Plane window Speaking on This Morning, Dr Zoe Williams recently advised holiday makers to “check which countries you’re at risk for rabies.” Whether you’ll be going for a long period of time, expecting to work with animals, or hoping to try some...
UBS Wealth Report 2025 exposes exponential growth of inequality internationally
World Socialist Web Site
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June 20, 2025
A homeless man pushes a shopping cart full of his belongings across an intersection in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. [AP Photo/Jae C. Hong]The recently released UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 provides an irrefutable statistical indictment of...
European Union steps up support for people displaced by the ...
Modern Ghana
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As conflict continues to uproot communities across the Central Sahel, the European Union (EU) has announced €10 million in new funding to support forcibly displaced people and the communities hosting them in the neighbouring coastal countries of...
Spare us from Big Men with big wallets, bigger lies and biggest egos
Daily Maverick
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June 20, 2025
Ah, Chief Dwasaho. I was not going to write this letter today. I have exhausted my mental strength with human beings, the lies, deception, broken promises, rape, murder, genocide, missiles, bombs, drones, crime, corruption and obfuscation. There...
The road to Rafah
Africa is a country
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On June 9, 2025, a convoy of dozens of buses and hundreds of cars carrying several thousand volunteers departed from the Tunisian capital city of Tunis on a more than 2,500km journey to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Palestine. Dubbed...
ANALYSIS: African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics
Premium Times
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June 20, 2025
The number of displaced Africans has doubled since 2018. For the 14th consecutive year, conflict and climate change have driven record numbers of people from their homes. Changes in national priorities, economic uncertainty and donor fatigue have...
Deacon O’Donnell’s ‘normal’ faith life led to priestly vocation
Catholic Review - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
Archbishop William E. Lori will ordain five men to the priesthood June 21 at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. The following is a profile of one of those future priests. New profiles of the other new priests will be added to...
African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics
Institute for Security Studies
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African refugees bear the brunt of shifting global politics On World Refugee Day, displaced Africans face the worst conditions yet as conflict and disasters increase, aid plummets and borders tighten. The number of displaced Africans has doubled...
The Gambia at the crossroads again
The Standard Gambia
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June 20, 2025
- Advertisement - By Abdoulie Mam Njie “The ballot is stronger than the bullet” — Abraham Lincoln “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” — Martin Luther King Jr A legacy in the balance I write this article as a former public...
Minister warns against economic dependence on former colonial powers
Punch
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June 19, 2025
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Council of Ministers, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has warned against continued economic dependence on former colonial powers. Tuggar gave the warning at the...