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Stakeholders Advocate Regulatory Alignment to Improve WAPCo’s Efficiency
This Day
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July 14, 2025
Stories by Peter Uzoho Key figures from Nigeria’s oil and gas sector have reaffirmed their commitment to improving the efficiency of the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo) with a call to strengthen regulatory alignment and...
Edo: PDP screens aspirants for Senate, House of Reps by-elections
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 16, 2025
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has screened aspirants vying for the Edo Central Senatorial District and Ovia Federal Constituency seats ahead of the August 16, 2025, by-elections. The Independent National Electoral...
2027: ‘Remove Tinubu From Power’ – PDP Tasks Edo Citizens
Naija News
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July 15, 2025
Naija News reports that the State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Tony Aziegbemi, made this known during a stakeholders’ meeting of party members, leaders, stakeholders, and critical supporters held in Benin City. Aziegbemi stated that...
How schools are being built for extreme heat – without airconditioning
The Indian Express
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July 16, 2025
When prize-winning architect Francis Kere was growing up in Burkina Faso he spent his schooldays in a gloomy classroom that was so stifling he says it would have been better suited to making bread than educating children.Years later, while...
Edo secures N1.2bn grant for indigent AAU students
Punch
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July 14, 2025
The Edo State Government has secured a N1.2bn education grant from OPay Digital Services for Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. This followed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Edo government and OPay on Monday, in Benin, the...
How schools are being built for extreme heat - without aircon
Context
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What’s the context? As climate change brings record heatwaves, architects are innovating to keep temperatures down in the classroom. Heat threatens children's education Aircon fuels global warming Architects turn to passive cooling LONDON - When...
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...
NBA superstar Kawhi Leonard to grace the 2025 Giants of Africa Festival
Citizen TV Kenya
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July 16, 2025
Two-time NBA champion and multi-time all-star Kawhi Leonard has been added to this year's star-studded lineup for the Giants of Africa Festival 2025, which is scheduled for July 26th - August 2nd, 2025. The LA Clippers forward will mentor youth...
Liberia: Community Land Protection Program Coordinator at SDI Calls on Actors in Land Sector to Take Advantage of NELGA Alumni Program
Front Page Africa
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July 16, 2025
Mr. Daniel B. Wehyee: Photo Credit: The event organizer ACCRA, Ghana – The Coordinator of the Community Land Protection Program (CLPP) at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) is calling on CSOs and individuals working in the land sector of...
A Giant Leap for African Unity: Kenya’s historic Visa-Free policy and the Trans African tourism and unity campaign
Joy FM
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July 15, 2025
Today, July 13, 2025, marks a historic milestone in Africa’s journey toward unity and free movement. Kenya has taken a bold and transformative step by eliminating all visa requirements and the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) for citizens of...
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...
Buhari was an exceptional soldier, Onoja says
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 16, 2025
• He degraded Boko Haram terrorists, Buratai affirms • Northern youth hail Tinubu for honouring Buhari Former Principal General Staff Officer (Chief of Staff), State House, Maj-Gen Lawrence Onoja (rtd), has said he found former President Muhammadu...
MoneyBadger secures R7m to bolster crypto adoption
ITWeb
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July 15, 2025
Carel van Wyk, CEO, MoneyBadger. South African Bitcoin and crypto payments solution provider MoneyBadger has closed a $400 000 (roughly R7 million) pre-seed funding round. The funds will be used to drive up adoption of Bitcoin and crypto among...
Real and fake antidotes to Trump's latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
CADTM
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July 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base –...
Sam George unveils bold digital vision for Ghana: AI Trainin...
Modern Ghana
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Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Hon. Sam George, has unveiled an ambitious digital transformation plan that promises to reshape the country’s technological future. Speaking during a comprehensive sector briefing,...
“Our Plan Is To Remove Tinubu From Aso Rock” – Edo PDP
Information Nigeria
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July 15, 2025
Edo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, has said that its agenda for next political dispensation is to stop President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. Edo State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Tony Aziegbemi, made this...
Coalition: Former APC Chair, Oyegun Joins ADC
Point Blank News
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July 15, 2025
Former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Edo State, Chief John Oyegun, has officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Edo State. Oyegun, a former governor of Edo State recently joined...
Mass job losses, insecurity risks over CBN’s BDC recapitalisation policy
The Sun Nigeria
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July 10, 2025
From Adanna Nnamani, Abuja The Arewa Economic Forum has warned that the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) new Bureau De Change (BDC) recapitalisation policy could wipe out northern participation in the sector, displace thousands of small business...
Metering gap persists amid 187,000 Q1 installations
Punch
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July 14, 2025
Despite the various initiatives aimed at tackling estimated billing and enhancing customer satisfaction, over half of Nigeria’s electricity consumers remain unmetered, The PUNCH reports. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission said in its...
THE REVIEW OF THE BOOK TITLED ‘THE RISE AND FALL OF INDIGENOUS CHIEFTAINCY INSTITUTION IN THE NIGER DELTA,’ AUTHORED BY...
Newswriter
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July 15, 2025
Samuel Marshall The review, authored by Samuel Marshall, a renowned cartoonist, book illustrator, and editor, was composed in June 2025. INTRODUCTION The book provides an insightful, non-fictional historiographical analysis of the rise and...