At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in central Pakistan early Sunday when a fire erupted after crowds rushed to collect fuel from an overturned oil tanker. Here are the most serious such incidents around the world over the past decade. In many of the most deadly of these, people were trying to […]
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Fossils of Homo sapiens discovered in Morocco are the oldest known remains of our species, scientists say. The bones, about 300,000 years old, were unearthed thousands of miles from the previous record-holder, found in fossil-rich eastern Africa. The new discovery reveals people from an early stage of our species’ evolution, with a mix of modern […]
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Exactly a day like today, 30 May 1967, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria declared the sovereign state of Biafra in a speech that got Ndigbo fighting for self independence from Nigeria. For three years, the defunct Country, Biafra, fought Nigeria in a civil war that claimed millions of lives. […]
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Boko Haram militants freed 82 of more than 200 schoolgirls they kidnapped from the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014 in exchange for prisoners, the government said on Saturday. Three years ago, the abduction of the girls from their secondary school by the jihadist group Boko Haram sparked global outrage and a celebrity-backed […]
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Human trafficking can mean captive labor on the seas to domestic workers trapped in private homes and children and women forced to suffer sexual violence. Here are 10 facts about human trafficking around the world: 1. Trafficking is considered the exploitation of men, women and children forced to work against their will through the use […]
Read MoreIn the above video tweeted by the President of Nigeria; Muhammadu Buhari showed the Vice President stating clear his role as the Vice. He said: “My role and my commitment as Vice President is to support President Muhammadu Buhari in every way, to ensure the Administration succeeds.” VP @ProfOsinbajo: "My role and my commitment as […]
Read MoreThis short clip was curb from twitter and it on how the rift between the major oil producing company in Nigeria ‘Shell’ and ‘The Ogonis’ all started and still going on up until today. What is the permanent way out?
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Fossils unearthed in India that are 1.6 billion years old and look like red algae may represent the earliest-known plants, a discovery that could force scientists to reassess the timing of when major lineages in the tree of life first appeared on Earth. Researchers on Tuesday described the tiny, multicellular fossils as two types of […]
Read More“Do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person”. The writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s advice to her friend Ijeawele about how best to raise her daughter as a feminist. Interviewer: channel4news Presenter I think Chimamanda's opinion was spot on, she couldn't have said it any better.. https://t.co/jetYRdB02X — AnchorMan❗️ (@BlissKingg) March 11, 2017
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Barcelona became the latest soccer team to pull off the seemingly impossible. Trailing 4-0 after the first leg, Barcelona scored a half dozen goals on Wednesday to beat Paris Saint-Germain 6-1 and advance to the Champions League quarterfinals 6-5 on aggregate. The last three goals, two scored by Neymar and the other set up by […]
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The family of 97-year-old twin sisters who died in freezing temperatures after falling outside one of their homes says the two lived with charm, grace, kindness and style. Police say Jean Young Haley and Martha Young Williams died after they fell outside Haley’s house in Barrington on Friday and became stranded in the frigid cold. […]
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