After eight months’ strike, one of the longest in the country’s history, university teachers finally returned, at gunpoint, to the classrooms on Monday.
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Back in the day, weather forecasts were a joke. And I mean literally. The weather forecast segment which used to come at the end of the news bulletin on Nigeria’s national broadcaster, NTA, was the butt of cruel jokes amongst folks.
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There is fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup that removed military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
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When the row between Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), spilled onto the streets after the party’s presidential primaries…
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The stakes to play for are not only high, they are dangerously seductive for two contenders – the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the PDP candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar – two deep pockets who may well be taking their last shot at the nation’s top job.
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If large sections of the British press needed any proof that Meghan killed the Queen her Saturday visit to Windsor confirmed it.
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In six African countries, the heads of government have been in power for 20 years or more.
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Everyone has their meal of the day, and mine happens to be dinner. Having dinner, for me, is a ritual, but one that has evolved over the years.
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The cold blast of the air conditioner from the room hit me by surprise as I opened the door. I wasn’t expecting a draught from inside at eight on a damp morning. .
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I’m not sure Atiku Abubakar expected this amount of pushback when he chose Okowa over Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike. But just as it is with the ruling APC too…
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