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Queen Elizabeth inspect the soldiers of the Nigeria Regiment during her first visit Queen Elizabeth II (96 years) had been to Nigeria only two times after she was crowned England's monarch in 1953 The first time the then-young queen visited Nigeria was in 1956 three years after she ascended the throne After this, Queen Elizabeth …
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Gathered outside the door of the Cheshire venue in the sweltering almost Lagosian heat, I adjust my dress, which is a Nigerian Barbiecore remix of Lily James’s 2022 Oscars gown. There are drummers punctuating the songs sung in my grandmother’s tongue by two women who stand at the entrance of the doorway. They ask us to fill …
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Liz Truss expected to make James Cleverly foreign secretary, Suella Braverman home secretary and Kwasi Kwarteng chancellor For the first time in Britain’s history, there will not be a white man in one of the four great offices of state. Prime minister-in-waiting Liz Truss, who beat Rishi Sunak in the Conservative leadership contest, is expected to appoint …
A NEW DAYSupreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wears an Aliétte coat. Fashion Editor: Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 2022. “P lease tell me you saw Ketanji Brown Jackson in that hearing last night.” “I did! Wasn’t she just incredible?” What I thought but did not say, as my client and I settled into the …
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