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Greg Mills: Strength and resilience key to Ukraine’s support in Africa
Ukrainian Week
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June 27, 2025
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine has been working to raise its profile across Africa—building political ties and opening new embassies across the continent. But there’s still a long road ahead. What will it take to make these...
Lakurawa kills 6, injures 1 in Sokoto
The Sun Nigeria
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June 27, 2025
From Shafa’atu Suleiman, Sokoto Suspected Lakurawa bandits have launched a deadly assault on Baidi and Sabiyo villages in Tangaza Local Government, Sokoto State, killing at least six villagers and injuring one. According to local sources, the...
Romania govt set to establish mining company in Kebbi
Tribune Online
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June 27, 2025
Kebbi State Government is set to enter into collaboration with the Government of Romania to establish a mining company in Yauri and Ngaski Local Government Areas in the Yauri Emirate Council. Governor Nasir Idris, disclosed this Thursday during a...
Tinubu’s unfinished national surgery: Compelling case for 2nd term
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 26, 2025
As we consider the next chapter in Nigeria’s story, it’s clear that President Bola Tinubu’s experience, leadership and vision are essential to our continued progress. A second term would provide the stability and continuity needed to build on the...
EFSCRJ raises concerns over the 67th ordinary session of Ecowas
The Standard Gambia
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June 26, 2025
- Advertisement - By Madi Jobarteh The Edward Francis Small Centre for Rights and Justice hereby expresses its deep concern at the outcome of the 67th ordinary session of Ecowas leaders held on 22 June 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria. After reviewing the...
Ecuador Revokes Visa-Free Transit for 34 African Countries
News Central TV
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June 23, 2025
Ecuador has officially revoked visa-free transit privileges for citizens of 45 countries, including 34 from Africa, in a sweeping overhaul of its immigration and border control policies. Under the new directive, travellers from the affected...
Blood in the middle belt: Enough of the slaughter
The Cable
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June 25, 2025
BY NNAA KALU NTO They come at night. Sometimes at dawn. Guns in hand, machetes sharpened, torches lit. Entire villages razed. Children thrown into wells. Families were burned alive in their homes. This isn’t a warzone in a foreign country. It’s...
The U.S. Is Making Prison Deals in Other Countries
Esquire
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June 26, 2025
Is it possible for a nation of Reichstags to develop a world full of gulags, or does that stretch historical analogies beyond the breaking point? Let’s let the Intercept settle this question. An Intercept investigation finds that the Trump...
Experts wary as food prices defy 22.97% inflation drop
Punch
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June 23, 2025
Despite the deceleration in the headline inflation over April and May, economic watchers have expressed fears regarding food inflation. According to the last Consumer Price Index released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the headline...
Critical interventions in Nigerian tertiary education
Tribune Online
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June 25, 2025
By Adagher Tersoo WHEN Arch. Sunday Echono was appointed Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) on March 18, 2022, he inherited a vital agency tasked with reviving Nigeria’s public tertiary education. With over three...
ECOWAS Authority Appreciate Gambia Gov’t Efforts in Creating Budget Line for SSR
The Voice Gambia
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June 25, 2025
By: Lamin B. Darboe The Sixty-seventh Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on 22 June 2025 in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the chairmanship of H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR), President of the...
Turkey is stepping up its influence in west Africa – what’s ...
Modern Ghana
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Turkey is stepping up its influence in west Africa as the geopolitical and economic landscape in the region shifts. In Senegal, the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation has entered a key partnership in the oil and gas sector. Meanwhile,...
SSP Diaries | Cessation of ticketing for running lights a logical decision
The Gleaner
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June 26, 2025
RECENTLY THE commissioner of police made a most welcome and logical public announcement, namely the cessation of ticketing motorists for running lights that are permanently on, day or night. An increasing number of motor vehicles over the last...
The Bloodbath in Benue
This Day
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June 23, 2025
The recent extermination of over 300 lives in Benue State has come as one too many, in the series of calculated bloody attacks in the State and environs, including Plateau and Taraba. Many are of the view that the Federal Government hasn’t done...
Iraq confirms drone attacks on radar systems at military bases
The National News
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At least two radar systems were attacked by unidentified drones on Tuesday early morning at military bases in Iraq, a government spokesman confirmed, while there was no claim of responsibility for the attacks. The first drone hit the radar system...
Turkey is stepping up its influence in west Africa – what’s behind its bid for soft power
The Conversation
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June 24, 2025
Turkey is stepping up its influence in west Africa as the geopolitical and economic landscape in the region shifts. In Senegal, the state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation has entered a key partnership in the oil and gas sector. Meanwhile,...
'It makes us all safer': Nato hails Trump over Israel-Iran ceasefire
The National News
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Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte has backed US President Donald Trump's intervention in the war between Israel and Iran, and subsequent ceasefire efforts, as the alliance's leaders gathered in The Hague for a summit. The summit's initial focus on...
Govt clueless about Namibians in conflict-hit Iran
Windhoek Observer
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Justicia Shipena The Ministry of International Relations says it has not received any reports of Namibian nationals currently in Iran or struggling to leave the country. The ministry’s executive director, Ambassador Penda Naanda, said no...
Trump’s Global Gulag Search Expands to 53 Nations
The Intercept
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June 25, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump administration could resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured. This may clear a legal path for the...
$1bn strategic pact: Nigeria, Brazil sign MoUs on defence, energy, drug control, agric
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 25, 2025
Vice President Kashim Shettima has applauded the over $1 billion Green Imperative agricultural initiative, saying it is a milestone in Nigeria’s renewed strategic alliance with Brazil, grounded in mutual respect and practical cooperation....