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<img src="https://lawakhigbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/img_1787.jpg?w=1024&quot; alt="<p>Various organisations and members of the public attended the protest at 1pm in Parliament Square Gardens, London. Various organisations and members of the public attended the protest at 1pm in Parliament Square Gardens, London. (The Independent) Protesters have condemned Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill as a “tool to divide” during a demonstration in Westminster. …

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President Muhammadu Buhari will enter the last full year of his term facing some familiar challenges. He’ll be looking to sustain a fragile recovery of Africa’s biggest economy while trying to curb rising insecurity in both the northwest and northeast. Meanwhile Nigeria’s political parties will conduct primaries to select presidential, governorship and national assembly candidates for the …

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The Igue festival is the biggest and most flamboyant of all the festivals celebrated by the Oba and people of Benin Kingdom. It is normally celebrated with a lot of pomp and pageantry during the first half of the month of December (first fourteen days of the month) of every year. The Igue festival is …

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Those promised rewards for Britain of leaving the EU should surely be with us by now. What have been the costs and gains of ‘taking our country back’? On New Year’s Day the UK will have been fully out of the European Union for a year: out of its political and legal structures, out of its single market, …

Continue reading "Brexit one year on: so how’s it going? By Toby Helm"

Nigeria Overview:  Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa continued attacks against government and security forces and civilians in the Northeast, which resulted in deaths, injuries, abductions, and the capture and destruction of property.  Boko Haram attacks did not discriminate between civilians and government officials, whereas ISIS-WA generally, but not always, focused attacks on government and security forces.  …

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