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Remember, early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, the speculation as to how apocalyptic it would be if this disease hit the African continent? I do. There was deep anxiety about what it would mean for countries with lower income populations, dominant but harder-to-regulate informal economies and far fewer healthcare facilities than the UK or Italy. …
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacists. On Wednesday, he appeared to blame suburban, low-income people of color for…Trump blames low-income people, minorities for 'ruining' suburbia
In recent past, many of our young Nigerians have died or have been hospitalised due to colon cancer. We then ask the question, why? Nobody likes to talk about bowel movements or cancer and nobody likes to get a colonoscopy, but according to the American Cancer Society, “Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed …
We stand in the shadow of one of the darkest chapters of our Nation’s history surrounded by the artefacts and monuments to a terrible conflict. This is neither the time nor the place for rehashing the polemics of justification and recrimination, and claims and counterclaims about the remote and immediate causes of the war. Many …
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