Category: HISTORY
WHY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY’S BILLS AGAINST FREE SPEECH ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL by HURIWA
Introduction Freedom of expression is one of the fundamental rights provided in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amendRead More…
Foreign nations ‘violating Libya arms embargo’
A confidential UN report accuses Jordan, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates of regularly violating the arms embargo on Libya, news agency AFP reporRead More…
Operation Safe Corridor hands over 86 Boko Haram child fighters to Borno State Rehabilitation Centre
In an effort to ensure that minors and other repentant Boko Haram fighters in the North East are given the necessary support and opportunity to embraRead More…
Man with 5 wives, 23 kids offers three-year-old son for N5m after selling daughter
Nasarawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a 42-year-old polygamous suspect for attempting to sell his threeRead More…
On this day: 6th Nov
In 1429 the seven-year-old Henry VI was crowned King of England. In 1431 he was crowned King Henry II of France. He was the youngest person toRead More…
National Portrait Gallery to close for three years
The National Portrait Gallery in London, United Kingdom is to close for three years, threatening the future of its renowned portrait award and its coRead More…
Ancestral homeland of modern humans in Botswana, study finds
Region south of the Zambesi river was once home to a enormous lake, roughly twice the area of modern-day Lake Victoria Scientists claim they have Read More…
Nigerian youths debate national re-construction at Superbowl 6
Students of the University of Ibadan will today and tomorrow debate the need for national reconstruction at this year’s edition of the oratory compRead More…
Cross River Assembly seeks death penalty for cultists
The Cross River House of Assembly has commenced the process to amend the Anti-Cultism Act passed into law by the Donald Duke government in April 2Read More…
Scientists find glacial rivers absorb carbon faster than rainforests
‘Total surprise’ finding overturns conventional understanding of rivers In the turbid, frigid waters roaring from the glaciers of Canada’s hRead More…