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Entertainment Lifestyle 

Davido: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Village Reporter,
NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month by featuring four weeks of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and playlists by Black artists spanning different genres and generations each week. The lineup includes both emerging and established artists who will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. This celebration highlights the beautiful cornucopia of Black music… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

With love, from Nigeria: ‘Namaste Wahala’ filmmaker Hamisha Daryani Ahuja on her journey

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Express News Service Hamisha Daryani Ahuja has donned many hats over the years–that of an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker, an author… But a decade ago, when she launched her restaurant Bistro 7 in Nigeria, might she even have dreamed that she would eventually make a Bollywood- style Nollywood film? Typically, filmmakers say no, but the dreamer that Hamisha always has… Read More
Human Rights 

Pandemic recovery presents historic opportunity to ensure human rights for all: Guterres

Village Reporter
The UN chief addressed ambassadors exactly one year after he issued a Call to Action for Human Rights, a seven-point blueprint aimed at boosting equality and reducing suffering everywhere.  Amid budget cuts and financial crisis, he appealed for support for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and related bodies, noting that funding is critical to achieve… Read More
Health Advice Lifestyle 

No-fault compensation programme for COVID-19 vaccines is a world first

Global Author
New programme makes compensation available to eligible individuals in 92 low- and middle-income countries without need to resort to law courts This is the first and only global vaccine injury compensation mechanism The programme is funded by a small levy on each dose supported by the Gavi COVAX AMC   The World Health Organization (WHO) and Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB), through… Read More
Health Advice Lifestyle 

Improving understanding of and response to infodemics during public health emergencies

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Following the first global infodemiology conference held in July 2020, WHO and partners coordinated a joint call for papers  with 5 academic journals representing different scientific fields, all related to components of the science behind managing infodemics. This week the first of these academic journals published its special infodemic feature. The research findings contribute to filling the knowledge gap identified through the WHO public health research agenda for managing infodemics released earlier this month. In the issue published by Health Security, you’ll… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Onyi Moss tells Pulse Nigeria about her career, journey, dreams, music and photography [Interiew]

Village Reporter,
Her nursery, primary and education got completed in Abuja. She went to All Saints Primary School and Gifted Secondary School in Gwagwalada. For university, she attended Madonna University Okija where she studied Accounting. Afterwards, she completed NYSC in Abuja and worked for Zenith Bank in Maitama for two years before pursuing her Chartered Accountancy Qualification (ACCA) at the London School… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Southern Arizona organ guild honors Black composers with special concert

Village Reporter,
Sunday’s concert will be performed by five local organists. Getty Images Cathalena E. Burch African-American composers will take the spotlight on Sunday, Feb. 28, when the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists hosts a special Black History Month virtual concert. The program for the concert, which begins at 3 p.m., includes works by Florence Price, the first… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

New Musical Short “Can’t Have It Both Ways” from New Mexico Latina Filmmakers Address Need to Embrace Solidarity for All

Village Reporter,
New Musical Short “Can’t Have It Both Ways” from New Mexico Latina Filmmakers Address Need to Embrace Solidarity for All – Music Industry Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for music industry professionals · Wednesday, February 24, 2021 · 535,819,565 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Ghana receives first historic shipment of COVID-19 vaccinations from international COVAX facility

Global Author
Confirming the news on Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that further supplies of the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab will reach Côte d’Ivoire later this week. These are the first coronavirus shots from the COVAX scheme to be distributed outside India, where the vaccine is being produced under licence. Further supplies will be shipped to the other members as the global… Read More
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