Unless a miracle happens, Team Nigeria may lose the battle to win the ongoing 2023 African U-18 and U-20 Athletics Championships in Ndola, Zambia, to South Africa. Team Nigeria won eight more gold medals yesterday, but they may not be enough to beat the South Africans to the number one spot. Nigerian athletes were everywhere, yesterday, winning eight more gold medals to take their total medals haul, so far, to 12 gold medals. Two more finals were yet to be concluded as at press time yesterday. Tima Godbless earned gold in the U-20 women’s 200m, while Grace Oshiokpu won the U-20 women long…
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/ Shows / Across Africa Issued on: 04/05/2023 – 22:39 12:08 Across Africa © FRANCE24 Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by Sudan’s conflict. But some civilians have also had to stay in Khartoum as a war rages around them and even say they have no choice but to still head into work Also Congolese communities in the country’s east say that successes claimed by the east african force sent in to reign in M23 rebels, have been overblown. And dozens of beninese craftsmen brush up on the skills needed to restore the royal palaces of the former kingdom of…
Bible reading Let me ask you to turn your Bibles to the Book of Revelation 1. Revelation 1:1-20, I’m reading from the English Standard Version. “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep…
American civil rights activist George Houser was also active in Africa’s anti-colonial struggle. To write his biography, Sheila Collins widely read 20th century African political history. George Houser in Angola, 1962 (Photo: African Activist Archive, Michigan State University). I was fairly conversant with the history of the US Civil Rights Movement when I decided to write Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents as a post-retirement project. As the executive secretary of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Houser pioneered civil rights organizing several years before the eruption of the Civil Rights Movement…
Some commentators consider labelling Tinubu as an Awoist or social democrat as nonsense. They instead see him as a neo-liberal in the same vein as most politicians in Nigeria. This predominant group of politicians believes the market and the private sector are the solution to all ills in government, economy, and the larger society. Tinubu is also shrouded in much controversy regarding his age, origins, health and constitutional fit for the office of president of Nigeria. A newspaper report from 1998 states that he was 52, but in 2023 Tinubu officially marked his 71st birthday, leaving a six-year gap. Demands…
The opening passages of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man introduce a nameless protagonist to the reader. We come to learn in those first pages that the eponymous character cannot be seen by others because of a “matter of construction of their inner eyes”. Such a condition has motivated the protagonist to seek refuge underground. In this hole, underground, he escapes the darkness which would render him unseen above the surface. Underground, his hole is “full of light”. Ellison’s description of alienation under white supremacy, what some writers refer to as black existentialism is certainly instantiated by the subject matter in…
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, leave to serve writ of summons on Meta platform, the social media giant and owner of Facebook. The court gave the nod pursuant to an application by ARCON in a pending N30 billion suit against the social media giant for violation of the extant advertising laws of Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the writ is to be served at the United States corporate headquarters of Meta which also owns Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp social media platforms. While Meta is the first defendant…
Comment on this storyCommentYou’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.Despite repeated declarations of cease-fires, the fighting in Sudan won’t stop. Battles between forces loyal to two prominent generals have convulsed the country of 46 million people, paralyzing its teeming capital city Khartoum and prompting a panicked flow of refugees along an arduous journey to Sudan’s borders. Conservative estimates suggest more than 500 people have been killed, with more than 4,000 wounded.The numbers…