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UK: Photo-documentarist, Bolaji Alonge takes ‘Iconic Lagos’ to Brighton Fringe 2023
Iconic Lagos – Brighton Fringe – Poster
NIGERIAN photographer Bolaji Alonge, Eyes of a Lagos Boy, presents his exhibition ICONIC LAGOS at this year’s Brighton Fringe!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Lagos boy, Mufutau Yusuf, makes wave in Irish dance circuits
Piece originally tiled: "In Lagos, dancing was life. In Ireland, it was a career. In New York, it made him a star
Mufutau Yusuf is to debut his first hour-long solo show at the!-->!-->!-->…
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Tejumola Olaniyan… Foundation launched in honour of beloved University of Wisconsin-Madison…
(Orignal title: Family, colleagues & community celebrate life of beloved UW professor and launch of Tejumola Olaniyan Foundation)
By David Dahmer
'Olaniyan was an!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Anthony Joshua will return stronger — Abike Dabiri
THE Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has sent words of encouragement to boxer Anthony Joshua following his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk on!-->…
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UK: The torso in the Thames: A 20-year mystery
In this report, the BBC details the decades-long murder and the events that have followed ever since
By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith
IT'S the longest unsolved child!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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How Asian, African migrants are lured by job promises to be enslaved in Cambodia
Trafficking people for forced labor as internet scammers has become a globalizing criminality - particularly people rendered desperate for migration by the pandemic.
By Matt!-->!-->!-->…
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US: Ojewuyi, theatre academic, appointed Dean of College of Arts and Media at Southern Illinois…
OLUSEGUN Abayomi Ojewuyi, one of Diasporan-Nigerian academics, has been announced as Interim Dean of the newly-founded College of Arts and Media at the southern Illinois!-->…
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Coarseness is not African
HAVE you ever opened the door for a lady, only to be told by another African… that that is not African?
Have you ever arrived punctually or waited patiently for your turn, only to!-->!-->!-->…
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Flashback 2018: A year of quiet Rebirth
I DON‘T even remember 2018 at all. I know I lived through it. And when I look through my blog I see evidence of the fact that I was alive in that year and all the things I wrote. But I!-->…
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Covid-19… a tale of two countries
In Nigeria, for every 1 million people, 5,737 tests have been conducted, while in Hungary, for the same number of people, they have conducted 311,000 tests. I wondered why testing was!-->…
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