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At 54 pounds, this meteorite is Earth’s biggest piece of Mars. It could sell for millions
KESQ-TV - California
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July 16, 2025
By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million. It’s up for auction at Sotheby’s. Known as NWA 16788, the meteorite weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms), massive compared...
Goïta’s indefinite mandate raises alarm over Mali’s democratic future
Daily Trust
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General Assimi Goïta, Mali’s junta leader, has signed a controversial law granting himself a five-year presidential mandate — renewable indefinitely and without election — sparking widespread concern over the country’s democratic trajectory. The...
Gender-Discriminatory Nationality Laws are Fueling Poverty & Violence Against Women
Inter Press Service
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July 16, 2025
Democracy, Featured, Gender, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Maithreyi Kamalanathan is Global Media Coordinator, Equality Now NEW YORK, Jul 16 2025 (IPS) - Around a quarter of...
Tinubu, Shettima, dignitaries bid farewell as Buhari is laid to rest
Nigerian Current
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July 16, 2025
Former President Muhammadu Buhari has been laid to rest at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, following funeral prayers and interment attended by numerous dignitaries led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Large crowds lined the streets of Daura...
OBITUARY: From khaki to kaftan — Buhari, the change patron who said he belonged to everybody and nobody
The Cable
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July 14, 2025
He walked like a whisper through a marketplace of noise, unshaken by applause, unbent by insult. The Buhari in us rises early, eats humbly, and acts when both heart and head agree. He wore power like plain clothes, no embroidery, no excess, only...
Buhari's far-north hometown prepares to bury late Nigerian l...
Modern Ghana
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Funeral preparations were underway Monday in the hometown of former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, as his hometown of Daura readied to bury the one-time military leader and twice-elected democrat. Children were turned away from schools as...
The Silent Exodus from Sabon Birni in North West Nigeria
HumAngle
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July 10, 2025
Since late 2019, families fleeing relentless violence in eastern Sokoto in Nigeria’s northwestern region have poured into the Guidan Roumdji Department of the Republic of Niger, carrying little more than the trauma of survival. Sabon Birni, a...
A journey rooted in conviction and nationhood
Daily Trust
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July 16, 2025
As I reflect on the life and legacy of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, I do so with immense gratitude, humility, and a sense of patriotic pride. My first encounter with him was not in a political meeting room, but rather in the...
Renewed Hope Agenda providing opportunities, prosperity for Nigerians – Idris
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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July 10, 2025
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu is a practical framework for national transformation, built on real and measurable opportunities for prosperity across all...
Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma
Media Monitors Network
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July 14, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal becomes the ninth country in WHO’s African Region to have achieved this feat. “I commend Senegal for freeing its population...
3 projects exemplifying the uptake of digital solutions in Africa
ESI Africa
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July 14, 2025
Beninese, Nigerian and Kenyan projects have been selected among The Elites nominees into how digitalisation forms the backbone of smart solutions, changing the way that people in Africa interact with power, energy and water. Planning and...
Renewed Hope: Tinubu empowers 900,000 traders as 300, 000 students get loan
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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July 10, 2025
The steady implementation of the 8-point Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu has begun to yield fruitful results as 900, 000 Nigerians have already benefited from Presidential Conditional Grant and Loan Scheme, supporting small...
Etsu Nupe hosts colloquium on agriculture, unveils endowment fund
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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June 28, 2025
Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, the Etsu Nupe and Chairman, Niger State Council of Traditional Rulers, on Saturday, in Abuja, organised a ‘Colloquium on Agriculture’ and an Endowment Fund Launch of the Etsu Yahaya Abubakar Foundation. The one-day epochal...
Tinubu, Shettima, Dignitaries Bid Ex-President Buhari Farewell As He’s Interred In Daura
This Day
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July 15, 2025
Deji Elumoye in Abuja Former President Muhammadu Buhari was on Tuesday evening laid to rest at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, following funeral prayers and interment attended by numerous dignitaries led by President Bola Tinubu. Large...
Samsung Unpacked preview: What to expect amid AI push and rising competition
The National News
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Samsung is expected to unveil its new foldable smartphones at its Unpacked event, as it seeks to regain leadership in a market it once dominated and expand its AI ambitions across lines of its mobile devices. The South Korean company is widely...
A CURIOUS COALITION OF POLITICIANS
This Day
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July 14, 2025
BAMIDELE ATOYEBI reckons that the ADC is a coalition of expired ambitions A new political front has emerged loud, self-righteous, and curiously united. But what binds them isn’t ideology. It isn’t patriotism. It certainly isn’t love for the...
Sotheby’s poised for red hot bidding battle as largest Martian meteorite goes up for auction in NY
The Print
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July 15, 2025
Bengaluru: The largest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction Wednesday in New York. The bid amount for this meteorite collision remnant is set to open at USD 1.6 million, according to Sotheby’s auction house. The NWA 16788 was discovered...
How KIKE Technologies Green Energy Network Is Empowering Women With Clean Biofuel Solutions
Daily Independent
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July 11, 2025
1 Lilian Aremu, Vice President of Operation Green Energy Biofuels and Co-Founder of Kike Technologies, is a social entrepreneur and transformational leader. In this interview with SEYI TAIWO-OGUNTUASE, she speaks on the organisation’s pioneering...
Former President Buhari buried in Daura amid prayers, tributes
Eagle Online
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July 15, 2025
Former President Muhammadu Buhari was laid to rest on Tuesday evening in his Daura residence in Katsina State in a solemn ceremony that drew dignitaries from across the nation and beyond. His body was committed to Mother Earth at about 5:50 p.m....
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The New Hampshire Gazette
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July 11, 2025
2003—Condi Rice lies about White House knowledge of Joe Wilson’s Niger investigation; Ari Fleischer outs Valerie Plame as a CIA officer; Karl Rove lies to Time about Wilson’s wife, Plame; and CIA head George Tenet takes the rap for the White...