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October 6 and 7, 1967 will ever remain unforgettable to Asaba people. They were the days the Nigerian Army led by late General Muritala Muhammed, attempted to wipe out all the male indigenes of Asaba because they were seen as Igbos and relations of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, leader of the 1966 coup that claimed …
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SIXTY years after independence, the abject condition of the Nigerian state is everywhere in evidence; rancour, distrust, fear of implosion and deprivation are the talking points. Hitherto sanguine believers in the myth of “unity in diversity” are joining the majority to agitate that the country reverts to genuine federalism. In the borderlands and rural abodes …
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... Government officials offer to arrange persons to stand in for returnees at laboratories for tests IHUOMA ChiedozieOn Sep 25, 2020 ALLEGATION of fraud and other forms of sharp practices are trailing the COVID-19 repeat tests being carried out on passengers who arrived in Nigeria on international flights from abroad. Nigerians in the Diaspora and …
Kim Darroch speaks during an annual dinner of the National Economists Club at the British Embassy in Washington on Oct. 20, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Kim Darroch, Britain’s ambassador to the United States from 2016 to 2019, watched the Trump presidency unfold from one of the best seats in the house. Then the spotlight turned …
In November 1881, a jury in Clarke County, Alabama, convicted Tony Pace, a black man, and Mary Cox, a white woman, under section 4189 of the Alabama Code, which criminalized "fornication" and "adultery" between persons of different races and outlawed interracial marriage. Pace and Cox were sentenced to two years in prison. On January 29, …
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