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Nigeria cracks down on ‘end Sars’ protesters, alleging terrorism by Emmanuel Akinwotu

Authorities suspend accounts of supporters and fine media for ‘exaggerated reporting’ Nigerian authorities have enforced a sweeping crackdown of “end Sars” protesters against police brutality in recent weeks, charging prominent supporters of financing terrorism and sanctioning coverage of recent abuses by security forces. Authorities have suspended the bank accounts of prominent supporters, fined media agencies …

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New portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter unveiled by Mark Brown

Painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta part of English Heritage project to highlight overlooked black figures Show caption Her birth name, historians believe, was Aina but in the high society of 19th-century England she was Sarah Forbes Bonetta, an enslaved little girl from what is now the west African country of Benin who became Queen Victoria’s …

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DSS Appoints 535 Northerners, 93 Southerners In Latest Recruitment Exercise Bridget Edokwe

The Gazette’s findings obtained over a period of two weeks show that the North has a massive share of the roughly 1,300 Nigerians currently undergoing cadet training at two different camps of the secret police in Lagos and Bauchi. Of the total 628 cadet trainees who had resumed at the Bauchi facility as of September …

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US election 2020: What is the electoral college? By BBC

Getty Images The US presidential election takes place 3 November. But it's possible the candidate with the most votes from the public won't be the winner. This is because the president is not chosen directly by the voters, but what's known as the electoral college. So who are Americans voting for? When Americans go to …

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AMERICA’S TRIBES GO TO THE POLLS AMIDST UNCERTAINTY By K. Sakyi-Addo

Millions of American tribesmen and women are voting today to elect a president and lawmakers. Two white tribal elders are contesting to rule the Covid-ravaged wheat-exporting former British colony for the next four years. They are the incumbent Donald J. Trump of the ruling Republican Party and Joseph R. Biden of the opposition Democratic Party, …

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