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Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin, 53, has become the first black woman to deliver an Inaugural Lecture in the almost 190-year history of King's College London, the fourth oldest university in England. 'Not before now has a black woman grown and risen through the ranks at King's to become a professor and to give an Inaugural Lecture …
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Since the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a rapt global audience has followed in real time a spectacle usually reserved for the most senior levels of government: the fashioning of an exculpatory fig leaf for an atrocity. That work is almost done. Saudi Arabia appears on the verge of getting its story straight, …
Editorial The name of Bata is now part of the Yoruba language as Bata is the word for shoe This week’s trip Down Memory Lane takes a look at Batas and its long history in the area. In 1930 Thomas Bata completed the purchase of farm land just north of the old village of East …
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A United state governor, Jay Inslee governor of Washington state, has appointed a Nigerian man Edirin Okoloko, as judge as the Snohomish County Superior Court. “Edirin has a clear dedication to the legal profession and a successful history of bringing justice to some of our state’s most vulnerable crime victims,” Inslee said. “He will be …
Chris Christie noticed a piece in the New York Times – that’s how it all started. The New Jersey governor had dropped out of the presidential race in February 2016 and thrown what support he had behind Donald Trump. In late April, he saw the article. It described meetings between representatives of the remaining candidates …
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