On 4 January, the conservative lawyer John Eastman was summoned to the Oval Office to meet Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Within 48 hours, Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election would formally be certified by Congress, sealing Trump’s fate and removing him from the White House. The atmosphere in the room was tense. The …
Trail’s end: the days of roaming free are over for Nigeria’s herders by Emmanuel Akinwotu
The still of the vast Damau grazing reserve is broken by the gentle noises of Abubakar Umar’s cattle as he herds them a few kilometres from the clusters of brick huts that house his steadily growing community of pastoralists from across northern Nigeria. For many of them, settling here in Kaduna has meant turning their backs …
VERBATIM: What retired naval officer said on Channels TV about Boko Haram, NDA attack by CableNg
Kunle Olawunmi Kunle Olawunmi, a retired commodore of the Nigerian Navy, is currently in the news following his recent comments on Nigeria’s security challenges when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television. Olawunmi, who is currently the head of the department of criminology and security studies at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun state, …
Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African childrenBy James Gallagher BBCHealth and science correspondent
Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease. Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants. Having a vaccine - after more than a century of trying - is among medicine's …
Africa: The Terrible Cost of Vaccine Inequality by Prinesha Naidoo
A crippling shortage of coronavirus vaccines in sub-Saharan Africa isn’t just a health risk, it’s having a major impact on economic growth. While richer countries roll out booster shots from their abundant supplies, only 3% of people in the region are fully inoculated. That risks the emergence of new, more virulent strains of Covid-19 that …
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