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Africa 

Cyclone Freddy slams eastern Mozambique with exceptional rainfall

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Tropical cyclone Freddy dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique Friday (Feb. 24) as the storm continued to wreak havoc across southern Africa, the UN weather agency said. Freddy made landfall in the coastal town of Vilanculos with wind speeds of a hundred thirteen kilometers damaging trees and housing. Residents sheltered at a primary school, terrified. “It was a… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Mr. & Ms. Military Pageant Reveals Celebrity and Veteran Judges Ahead of Event Honoring Service Members on Feb. 24

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Mr. & Ms. Military Pageant Reveals Celebrity and Veteran Judges Ahead of Event Honoring Service Members on Feb. 24 – Music Industry Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for music industry professionals · Saturday, February 25, 2023 · 618,991,929 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Whether it’s in Nigeria or Canada, police encounters haunt me

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This First Person column was written by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, who lives and works in Calgary. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.  There is no unrest or riot in Imo state, Nigeria, but the police presence is always heavy. We’ve already meandered past two police checkpoints and  there are more checkpoints along the road.… Read More
Europe 

Ukraine: 18 million need support as war enters second year

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“Since the start of the full-scale war we, along with our humanitarian partners in Ukraine, have made every effort to ramp up operations to provide life-saving support to those who need it most,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York.  Last year, thousands of convoys delivered vital supplies to people in all regions of the country, he said,… Read More
Africa 

Cameroon lashes out at media coverage of murder of radio journalist

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Cameroon’s government has lashed out against international media coverage of the murder of a radio journalist last month in a case that has got the attention of much of the country. Government spokesman Rene Emmanuel Sadi said Arsène Salomon Mbani Zogo’s killing is now being used as a pretext to put the state of Cameroon itself on trial – and… Read More
Africa 

Kano in northern Nigeria might prove decisive in the elections

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As Nigerians prepare to head to the polls on Saturday, the city of Kano, the second largest city in Nigeria’s Muslim north might prove decisive in picking a winner. Here, more than a million people voted twice for Muhammadu Buhari hoping their lives could improve.  Shoe vendor Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019. Now… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Singer Madonna, Darnell split after five months

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  Madonna and her model boyfriend Andrew Darnell, who is 41 years her junior, are rumoured to have called it quits after less than a year of dating, DailyMail reports. Following their split, the Material Girl singer, 64, is reportedly experiencing a ‘crisis of confidence’ over their breakup and recent ‘ageist and misogynistic’ criticism of her appearance earlier this month. “It was only… Read More
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AS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COMES TO AN END: Envisaging the post-election Nigeria youth

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What 2023 election has revealed to Nigeria politics since Mr. Peter Obi entered the presidential race was unprecedented. The old guards — PDP and APC were preping their campaign jingles on the usual rhetorics of humongous promises of unrealistic projects. But as the Youths (with yours sincerely in frontline) through various means including media call-outs brought in the third force… Read More
Africa 

2023 Election: Nigerians on the impact of the #ENDSARS movement

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The 2020 Endsars protest saw thousands of Nigerian youths storm the street to protest against police brutality and extrajudicial killings. The protests across major Nigerian cities began on 4 October 2020 after a viral video showing Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) dragging two men from a hotel and shooting one of them outside. Days into the protest the SARS unit was… Read More
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