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The hoover herbivore of the prehistoric Sahara
AS
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June 26, 2025
During the Cretaceous period 110 millions of years ago the world looked a lot different than it does to today. The continents were accelerating their drifting away from each other after the breakup of Gondwana and large areas of them were covered...
Top UK universities forced to cancel projects as Trump pulls funding in ‘assault on science’
LBC
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26 June 2025, 15:10 | Updated: 26 June 2025, 15:15 Leading British institutions have been forced to scrap research projects as Donald Trump ramps up his battle on universities. Picture: Getty Leading British institutions have been forced to scrap...
Bago tasks corps members on hard work, determination
News Diary Online
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June 13, 2025
Umaru Bago of Niger has urged members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to embrace hard work and the willingness to succeed throughout their service year. By Rita Iliya Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger has urged members of the National Youth...
Gov Radda markets Katsina’s investment prospects at China-Africa Economic Summit
Premium Times
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June 25, 2025
Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umaru Radda has pitched various investment potentials in the state to global investors at the Fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Conference. Speaking at the prestigious 3-day summit held from 12 – 15 June, 2025,...
Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Thursday, 26th June, 2025
Naija News
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June 26, 2025
Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Thursday, 26th June, 2025 The Presidency has disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will, on Thursday, sign into law four tax reform...
Show compassion on Nigerians grappling hardship – Former lawmaker, Madaki to political leaders
Daily Post
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June 13, 2025
Former Niger State lawmaker, Malik Madaki Bosso, representing Bosso constituency, has urged political leaders to show mercy to Nigerians who are grappling with hardship as the country marks 26 years of democracy. Bosso in a statement to mark the...
Democracy Dominoes: When Neighbours Fall, Who Stands Last?-...
Modern Ghana
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In an increasingly precarious West African neighbourhood, Ghana appears outwardly calm—but the tremors at its borders raise urgent questions. Military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have overthrown constitutions with ease, while civilian...
Again, bandits strike in Sokoto, kill 8, injure one
New National Star
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June 26, 2025
No fewer than eight people have been confirmed dead from a brutal attack by suspected bandits in two farming communities in the Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State. According to the spokesperson of the Sokoto State Police Command, DSP...
‘Auntie’: The life and times of Sekinat Adunni Adebajo
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 27, 2025
Losing a mother is like losing your life’s anchor. You are cast adrift, and all at sea. Following the death from her injuries of his mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, after being thrown by soldiers from a second-floor window, a depressed Afrobeat...
Trump defunds UK university research projects in ‘assault on science’
The Times
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More than 20 research projects at leading UK universities have been cancelled or suspended because of sweeping funding cuts imposed by President Trump. Days after taking office on January 20, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders that froze or...
IOM Ramps Up Emergency Response Amid Deadly Flooding in Nigeria
IOM - UN Migration
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June 11, 2025
Geneva/Mokwa, 11 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in close coordination with the Government of Nigeria, is responding to severe flooding in Niger State, Nigeria, that has left more than 200 people dead and nearly...
Zakat foundation empowers 136 widows across Nigeria, donates tools, cash in Ogun
Tribune Online
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June 27, 2025
THE Zakat and Sadaqat Foundation marked the International Widows’ Day on Monday, 23 June, 2025, by empowering 136 widows from across Nigeria with economic tools and startup capital worth over N23 million. The agency made the presentation to the...
3,000 vulnerable persons get free urology surgery in Katsina
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 25, 2025
Katsina State-born business mogul and philanthropist, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, has sponsored urology surgeries and treatments for more than 3,000 vulnerable patients within and outside the state. The surgery sponsorship was made possible through his...
Reflections: How Arab Monarchies Enable Western Aggression Against Defiant Leaders, By Yushau A. Shuaib
News Diary Online
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June 26, 2025
For decades, the specter of a Third World War loomed large in my mind, fueled by youthful readings of Nostradamus’s prophecies and shaped by early global events when I was a student of Bayero University Kano (BUK). One defining moment was Saddam...
The climate crisis has a gender
The Times of India
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June 24, 2025
Climate change may be global, but it is not gender-neutral. And the faces most affected are not the ones most heard. Floods, droughts, wildfires, storms – climate disasters are growing in frequency and ferocity. But behind the statistics and...
Kenyan Police Attack Youth-led Demonstrations Against Brutality
News Ghana
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June 26, 2025
At least 16 killed in protests marking the first anniversary of mass actions against tax hikes and the continuing repression by law-enforcement agents Political Review Social unrest in the East African state of Kenya accelerated during mass...
Bandits kill eight, injure one in Sokoto villages
Punch
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June 26, 2025
The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed that eight people were killed and one other injured in a brutal attack by suspected bandits on two farming communities in the Tangaza Local Government Area of the state. According to the command’s...
Nigeria, DRC lead global ranking of countries with most people without electricity access
Business Insider Africa
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June 26, 2025
New data from the World Bank report titled Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025, shows that a majority of the countries with the highest electricity deficits are in sub-Saharan Africa, further emphasizing the continent’s persistent...
How Arab monarchies enable Western aggression against defiant leaders, by Yushau A. Shuaib
Eagle Online
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June 26, 2025
For decades, the spectre of a Third World War loomed large in my mind, fuelled by youthful readings of Nostradamus’s prophecies and shaped by early global events when I was a student of Bayero University Kano (BUK). One defining moment was Saddam...
Employee compensation scheme: NSITF laments non-compliance by states
Tribune Online
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June 25, 2025
The Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye, has lamented the low level of compliance by state governments in enrolling their workers in the Employee Compensation Scheme (ECS). Barrister...