An advertisement for Fox News outside the News Corp. headquarters in New York on Feb. 6. (Bloomberg News) Obvious in broad strokes but now confirmed and with a sense of scale. But this top-line assessment of the face most associated with the right-wing cable network misses an important secondary assessment included in the Martin-Burns reporting. …
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File copy: The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) THE terrorists, who last week staged a series of attacks in the Northern states, including assaulting the Kaduna-Abuja train and ambushing and killing military troops confirmed that undoubtedly, Nigeria is at war. The country is assailed from within by expanding armies of well-armed terrorists and criminals, …
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Dowry is the money paid by a prospective suitor to the family of the girl he is proposing to marry. It is the single most important item in the list of traditional marriage requirements. The importance does not lie in the weight but the worth. It is a sum of money in the medium of …
(Courtesy Oriiz Onuwaje) LAGOS, Nigeria — “The Benin Monarchy: An Anthology of Benin History” is a one-of-a-kind book on the kingdom of Benin in what is now southwestern Nigeria and whose history dates back to the 900s. The Benin empire is one of the world’s oldest royal dynasties, which was also one of West Africa’s most powerful kingdoms …
Under the banner of Inclusive Britain, the equalities and levelling up minister, Kemi Badenoch, on Thursday set out a raft of measures (68 in all) aimed at reducing disparities between black and minority ethnic people and the white population. She also committed the government to a new approach to data and language in this area: the term …
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