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Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma
Media Monitors Network
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July 14, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal becomes the ninth country in WHO’s African Region to have achieved this feat. “I commend Senegal for freeing its population...
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
Consortium News
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July 15, 2025
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order. Cover art by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. By...
Buhari: UN, EU, Saudi, Moroccan kings, Etsu Nupe pay tributes
The Sun Nigeria
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July 16, 2025
The entire world literally stood still for the late Nigerian president, Muhammad Buhari, whose remains were laid to rest, yesterday. Major global bodies and leaders paid glowing tribute and eulogised his sterling qualities. The roll call included...
Myanmar exports over 400 tonnes of honey in April-May
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 15, 2025
One of the beekeeping and crop-integrated farming businesses in Myanmar. Myanmar exported over 480.82 metric tonnes of honey valued at US$0.72 million in the first two months of the current financial year 2025-2026 beginning 1 April, said U Myo...
OPS: Buhari drove reform agenda against economic headwinds
Punch
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July 16, 2025
The Organised Private Sector has described the late former President Muhammadu Buhari as a reform-minded leader whose administration pursued long-overdue structural changes with “strategic patience and political courage” amid difficult economic...
Buhari Buried in Blaze of Glory With Full Military Honours
This Day
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July 16, 2025
•Tinubu goes above and beyond to honour his predecessor, creating new presidential precedent DejiElumoye, ChuksOkochain Abuja, Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa, Francis Sardauna in Katsina and Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos Two days after he passed away at a...
A journey rooted in conviction and nationhood
Daily Trust
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July 16, 2025
As I reflect on the life and legacy of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, I do so with immense gratitude, humility, and a sense of patriotic pride. My first encounter with him was not in a political meeting room, but rather in the...
Nigeria’s ex-President Muhammadu Buhari dies in London aged 82
Al Jazeera
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Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari has died in London at the age of 82 following a long illness. “President Buhari died today in London at about 4:30pm (15:30 GMT) following a prolonged illness,” President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson...
Nigerians say government failing on security, floods, and food access — June poll
Business Day
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July 9, 2025
A growing number of Nigerians no longer believe their government can protect them from violence, hunger, or provide them succour in the aftermath of natural disasters. BusinessDay’s June TalkExchange poll gauged public opinion on the state of...
Mokwa flood caused by railway barrier, says NIRSAL MD
The Cable
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July 11, 2025
Aliyu Abdulhameed, managing director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), says the recent flood in Niger state was caused by railway embankment. More than 200 persons were reported dead after a...
Largest Mars Meteorite Heads To Auction Block
The Weather Channel
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July 15, 2025
Mars Chunk Expected To Fetch Up To $4 Million Who would pay several million dollars for a hunk of red, brown and gray rock? Well, when that rock is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth, there may be plenty of candidates. Sotheby’s will be...
Trump’s disrespect for African states persists
Sabah
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July 15, 2025
Forging a diplomatic endeavour among many states aims to achieve a quid pro quo status in international relations. While these relations strive to be on equal footing, mutual respect is highly encouraged among leaders, especially in their...
NSE inducts 261 engineers, urges integrity
News Diary Online
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July 15, 2025
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has inducted 261 engineers as Fellows, urging them to uphold integrity, ethical standards, and contribute actively to national development. By Angela Atabo The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has...
Renewing hope through innovation: Tunji-Ojo’s interior ministry agenda
Business Day
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July 15, 2025
Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, is a trained engineer, tech entrepreneur, and former legislator known for championing transparency and accountability. Appointed in August 2023 by President Bola Tinubu, the London-educated ICT...
Three Years After MVP Honour, Rt. Hon. Dekor Remains an Impactful Lawmaker
National Network
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July 15, 2025
Three years after he bagged the Most Valuable Parliamentarian (MVP) Hall of Fame award by OrderPaper Nigeria in 2022, the member representing Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Dumnamene Robinson Dekor has...
The Canadian Government Just Slapped The World's Hottest Country With A Travel Advisory
The Travel
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July 15, 2025
The Canadian government's travel advisory comes in four levels: Level 1 (exercise normal security precautions), Level 2 (exercise a high degree of caution), Level 3 (avoid all non-essential travel), and Level 4 (avoid all travel). The U.S. is...
African rail connection: A path to multimodal freight optimisation
Rail Freight
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July 11, 2025
Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing economies globally, and there is an urgent need to expand its infrastructure to ensure this growth aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With rapid urbanisation and population increases...
THE EMERGENCE OF REGGAE CULTURE IN 1970s PORT HARCOURT: A CULTURAL AWAKENING ROOTED IN IDENTITY AND LIBERATION
Newswriter
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July 15, 2025
Samuel Marshall In the mid-1970s, Port Harcourt experienced the rise and flourishing of reggae culture, a phenomenon that deeply resonated with the city’s residents. This cultural movement was characterized by its unique blend of African...
Scholarship: PTDF Screens 400 Candidates In N/East
News Investigators Nigeria
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July 14, 2025
News Investigators/ The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), has begun the 2025 overseas scholarship selection exercise of 400 candidates in the North-East. Its Executive Secretary, Ahmed Galadima, said this while supervising the...
Borders without consent: Why Post Colonial nations still bleed? EXPLAINED
Asianet Newsable
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July 15, 2025
Colonial borders still shape today’s global conflicts. Drawn without consent, these lines continue to fuel wars, identity crises, and political instability across Africa, Asia, and the Middle EastIt has been more than 70 years almost that the sun...