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State Department: Nauert Out As Pick For UN Ambassador

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Nigeria's Candidates Blame Each Other In Surprise Vote Delay

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California May Sue Trump Over Emergency Wall Declaration

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Court Filing: Manafort Faces More Than 19 Years In Prison

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In Nigeria, Election Spectacle At Odds With Rampant Poverty

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'Everybody Suffers Too Much:' Nigeria Heads To The Polls

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Nigeria in last day of campaigning warned to 'choose wisely'

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Amazon Dumps NYC Headquarters And Its Promised 25,000 Jobs

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Stevie Wonder, John Legend Headline Motown Tribute Concert

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Europe Names And Shames Nigeria, Panama And Saudi Arabia Over Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing

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Nigeria At The Ballot Box

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Philippine Agents Arrest Journalist Critical Of President

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Nigeria In Battle Against Fake News Ahead Of Elections

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Any Party That Is Not Committed To Restructuring Does Not Wish Nigeria Well —Umeh

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Call Me By My New Name: Balkan Nation Is North Macedonia Now

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National Debt Hits New Milestone, Topping $22 Trillion

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UN Forum Says People Of African Descent Still Face Discrimination And Attacks, Urges Reparations

Morris Griffin of Los Angeles, speaks during the public comment portion of the Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, Calif., on March 3, 2023...(Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP, File) BY EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. body formed to promote respect for and protect people of African descent around the world says in its first report that they continue “to be victims of systemic racial discrimination and racialized attacks” and calls for reparations. The report, which was delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, says reparations are essential to rectify past injustices against people of African descent and are “a cornerstone of justice in the 21st century.” Epsy Campbell Barr, chair of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, said at a news conference Tuesday the report underlines that “the legacies of colonialism, enslavement and apartheid are still alive today.” These legacies still have a real impact on the lives of millions of p

Voting In Unconstitutional Districts: US Supreme Court Upended Decades Of Precedent in 2022 by allowing voters To Vote With Gerrymandered Maps Instead Of Fixing The Congressional Districts First

Evan Milligan of Montgomery, Ala., is among the voters and advocacy groups who filed a lawsuit challenging the redistricting that watered down Black representation in the state. AP Photo/Vasha Hunt BY SAM D. HAYES VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY AND LAW, TRINITY COLLEGE For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of Black citizens. A 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in February 2022 let Alabama use these illegal districts during the election while the court heard the state’s appeal on the case known as Allen v. Milligan . In that case, voters had sued Alabama, arguing that its new congressional district map violated the Voting Rights Act by unfairly reducing Black voting power. Only one of seven congressional districts on Alabama’s new map had a majority Black population, despite Black residents making up a quarter of the state’s population. Th

Arizona’s Now-Repealed Abortion Ban Serves As A Cautionary Tale For Reproductive Health Care Across The US

AUTHORS: SWAPNA REDDY CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN HEALTH POLICY, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY MARY SAXON LAW DEGREE CANDIDATE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on April 9, 2024, that the state’s Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions was enforceable , it brought into stark reality the potential impacts of leaving reproductive rights up to the states to regulate, and the related consequences for women’s health. The ruling, set to go into effect in late June 2024, will only remain active for a few months because Arizona lawmakers repealed the law on April 30 . Starting in the fall, a previous state law banning abortion after 15 weeks will be reinstated. The rapidly changing legal landscape and conflicting information has fueled fear and confusion for women, families, hospitals, physicians and other health care providers, and had a chilling effect on abortion services. We are a health policy expert who studies how laws and policies affect health outco

How Cannabis And Psilocybin Might Help Some Of The 50 Million Americans Who Are Experiencing Chronic Pain

BY KEVIN F. BOEHNKE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANESTHESIOLOGY, U NIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency announced in late April 2024 that it plans to ease federal restrictions on cannabis , reclassifying it from a Schedule I drug to the less restricted Schedule III, which includes drugs such as Tylenol with codeine, testosterone and other anabolic steroids . This historic shift signals an acknowledgment of the promising medicinal value of cannabis . The move comes in tandem with growing interest in the use of psilocybin, the active component in magic mushrooms, for treatment of depression , chronic pain and other conditions . In 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted a breakthrough therapy designation to psilocybin , meant to expedite drug development given that preliminary studies suggest it may have substantial therapeutic value over currently available therapies for treatment-resistant depression and major depressive disorder . Both of these deve

BOOK REVIEW: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s Penetrating Essays Explore The Power Of Female Friendships

This cover image released by Dial Press shows "First Love" by Lilly Dancyger. (Dial Press via AP) BY ANN LEVIN Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic upbringing marked by her parents’ heroin use and her father’s untimely death when she was only 12. “First Love: Essays on Friendship” begins with a beautiful paean to her cousin Sabina, who was raped and murdered at age 20 on her way home from a club. As little kids, their older relatives used to call them Snow White and Rose Red after the Grimm’s fairy tale, “two sisters who are not rivals or foils, but simply love each other.” That simple, uncomplicated love would become the template for a series of subsequent relationships with girls and women that helped her survive her self-destructive adolescence and provided unconditional support as she scrambled to create a new ide

What America’s First Board Game Can Teach Us About The Aspirations Of A Young Nation

The title and printer’s address for the game. The copyright notice of July 12, 1822, appears in small type at the bottom. Library of Congress BY MATHEW WYNN SIVILS PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Board games are booming: In 2023 alone, the industry topped US$16.8 billion and is projected to reach $40.1 billion by 2032 . Classics like “Scrabble” are being refreshed and transformed , while newer inventions such as “ Pandemic ” and “ Wingspan ” have garnered millions of devotees. This growing cardboard empire was on my mind when I visited the American Antiquarian Society in August 2023 to research its collection of early games . As I sat in that archive, which houses such treasures as the 1640 Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in British America , I beheld another first in American printing: a board game called “The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States.” This forgotten game, printed the year after Missouri became a state , has a lot to say about America’s

Why Some People Receiving Federal Benefits Don’t Consider Themselves Poor − Even Though Poverty Rates Have Increased Since The COVID-19 Pandemic

Free food is distributed in February 2024 to residents in Brooklyn, N.Y. Spencer Platt/Getty Images BY SHERRI LAWSON CLARK ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CULTIRAL ANTHROPOLOGY WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY For the past 25 years, my research as a cultural anthropologist has taken me into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in cities and rural communities throughout the U.S. To better understand their day-to-day lives, I also have spent time in grocery stores, churches, nightclubs, parks and health clinics. I’ve asked countless questions, ranging from how many times they had moved to the types of social services they received. But of all the answers, none has perplexed me more than the one I receive when I ask, “Are you poor?” Not one has ever answered yes. One mother was almost indignant. “My kids have food in their bellies, a roof over their heads, and clothes on their backs, so, no, I’m not poor,” she told me. A decent standard of living Who, then, decides who is poor in America

Future Pandemics Will Have The Same Human Causes As Ancient Outbreaks − Lessons From Anthropology Can Help Prevent Them

The first emerging infections followed the rise of intensive agriculture. mikroman6/Moment via Getty Images BY RON BARRETT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, MACALESTER COLLEGE The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century. Since 2000, the world has experienced 15 novel Ebola epidemics , the global spread of a 1918-like influenza strain and major outbreaks of three new and unusually deadly coronavirus infections: SARS , MERS and, of course, COVID-19 . Every year, researchers discover two or three entirely new pathogens : the viruses, bacteria and microparasites that sicken and kill people. While some of these discoveries reflect better detection methods, genetic studies confirm that most of these pathogens are indeed new to the human species . Even more troubling, these diseases are appearing at an increasing rate . Despite the novelty of these particular infections, the primary factors that led to their

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Indicted Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana Loses Seat in House Runoff Election The investigation of Jefferson began in 2005 when Jefferson was videotaped by the FBI receiving cash in leather briefcases in Virginia for a deal in Ghana that he wanted a financial stake in. The money was to be split with the Nigerian Vice President to insure that their contracts would go forward. READ MORE>>> Nigeria opposition doubts Yar'Adua's electoral reform Lagos, Nigeria - Angered by the recent praises heaped on the embattled Nigeria's electoral boss Maurice Iwu by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the country's opposition has expressed doubts that the government is serious about its much touted electoral reform. READ MORE>>> Jailed: The prayer group fraudster who swindled worshipers out of tens of thousands of pounds A pensioner who used 'prayer sessions' to help defraud a church minister and a worshipper out of tens of thousands of pounds, has

How 19th-Century Spiritualists ‘Canceled’ The Idea Of Hell To Address Social And Political Concerns

An 1841 painting ‘Pandemonium’ by John Martin, based on John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’ where Pandemonium is the capital of Hell. John Martin via Wikimedia Commons BY LINDSAY DICUIRCI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, drivers pass a billboard on Interstate 71 that has achieved some internet fame. Since 2004, a black sign has risen from this flat stretch of highway declaring “HELL IS REAL.” The H in “Hell” is painted in red, a color Christians have long associated with sin and Satan. The developer who erected the warning, Jimmy Harston, has similar signs scattered across the Midwest, including ones that ask, “If you died today, where would you spend eternity?” For years, this confrontational sign was mostly a local attraction. But it gained wider notoriety when Ohio’s two Major League Soccer teams, Columbus Crew and FC Cincinnati, dubbed their 2017 matchup “Hell is Real.” The sign has now spawned TikTok content , T-shirt design

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2015: Leadership and Sins of Nd'Igbo

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: BIAFRA: Relative Discourses

I signed up because I had little experience in Africa, after having served in the United Nations forces in Congo. Also upset about what happened in Biafra and Czechoslovakia, I did not want to stand next to and just watch.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: JULIUS KPADUWA

The problems that confront Imo State are really not unique. It is the same problem that confronts almost every state in Nigeria, and it's one of economic development. The primary thing or my clear vision for the people of Imo State will be getting all the able-bodied men and women back to work, so that we can begin to have the quality of life that has so far eluded the people of Imo State.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Where We Met

But seeing a Nigeria headline on my screen it then occurred to him I must either be a Nigerian or perhaps a curious minded fellow who is reading to find out about the notorious Boko Haram, if they have captured more of their victims, or if there's an ongoing battle between the insurgents and the nation's security forces. Elevating my head up and starring at each other, I told him I was Igbo

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Otokoto Saga Interview

Now, the main question is about eleven year old Ikechukwu Anthony Okonkwo whose head was found dripping with blood with the convicted murderer Innocent Ekeanyanwu on a police tip-off inside a traveling commercial bus at Eziama in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE AMBROSE EHIRIM-CHIKA UNIGWE INTERVIEW

Every writer has to be able to live in the head of her characters. I had to make myself a blank blackboard for the characters to inscribe their lives on me. I had to wipe off that board every time a new character had to be created and totally surrender myself to that new character.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: THE SYLVESTER MENSAH STORY

The idea of writing a book had always engaged my thoughts based on reflections and the desire to share my experiences. The motivation was however triggered after reading the book of a gentleman l consider the busiest in Ghana, H. E. John Dramani Mahama

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: DR. APOLLOS NWAUWA

Contrary to what many think, the Igbo Diaspora is not really a homogenous, coherent group. Like other ethnic nationalities in the USA, the Igbo Diaspora consists of peoples from all walks of life separated by everything and only united by the fact that they are all Igbo. Serious social class disparity exists between them; therefore, presenting a united front in influencing or engineering actions at home continues to be a challenge.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: INTERVIEW: OZO'S KENI SAINT GEORGE

It was indeed a very boisterous, purpose driven, well-to-do Royal family. I come from a lineage of Royals and a well groomed family unit. My Father, Chief George Ozuloke, was a Court Judge for all of 18 years. He was both a Christian and Animist. He had 7 wives of which my mother was the first. I went to St. Martins Primary School and later to a wonderful School – Abbot Secondary Grammar School in Ihiala, my town. I even did a stint in Ihiala Seminary trying to be a Catholic Priest

Sovereign National Conference: A Symposium

A sovereign nation is born when, out of civilization, any such populations of human assemblage pledge loyalty and confide their trust to a governing body which they elect to oversee to their security, welfare and yes, to their happiness. The ensuing system of governance thrives and becomes sustainable by the wishes of the people whose interests it caters for.

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In the fourteen years of said democracy, things that never happened in the past - the way it had now turned out - started happening at an alarming rate and spooky by its nature.......Click on image to read full story

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