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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020 | Federal News Network

… the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black … . Chadwick Boseman, 43. He played Black American icons Jackie Robinson and James … New York City’s first African American mayor but was doomed to …

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Sierra Leone Telegraph nominated for 2020 National Entertainment Award

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2020: Sierra Leone’s most widely read online newspaper - the Sierra Leone Telegraph, has been nominated to receive the 2020 National Entertainment Award in Sierra Leone, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to bringing the news to the people of Sierra

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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020 - Black News Channel

By BERNARD McGHEE Associated Press In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie

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Nigeria: Soyinka Accuses Nigerian Govt of Kidnapping Nnamdi Kanu

[Premium Times] "You can say intercepted as much as you want but for me Kanu was kidnapped and that is wrong internationally and it is wrong morally."

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Nigeria: Exclusive - How AfDB Ethics Committee, Whistleblowers Clashed During Adesina's Probe

Indications have emerged that there was a mild disagreement between a group of whistleblowers and the ethics committee of the board of directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) during the probe of its embattled president, Akinwunmi

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Nigeria: Over 30 Vehicles Razed in Tanker Accident On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

[Premium Times] Motorists on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are locked in a gridlock following the tanker accident.

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First Black British woman to host her own TV show was accused of theft in Tesco - Voice Online

CHRYSTAL ROSE told The Sunday Mirror she was accused of shoplifting at a Tesco supermarket.... The post First Black British woman to host her own TV show was accused of theft in Tesco appeared first on Voice Online.

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Nigeria: How to Tackle Nigeria's Power Crisis, Challenges - Minister, Experts

[Premium Times] The experts, who brainstormed on the nation's energy sector crisis, agreed that urgent reforms were needed to bring the sector to par with global standards.

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Even the election dubbed 'the fraud of the century' doesn't compare to Trump's 2020 attempted election theft: historian

… full freedom and equality that Black Americans had taken since the end … violence throughout the South against African American voters to try to … make … abandonment of approximately four million African Americans living in the South. Both …

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Nigeria: NBET Boss Amobi Violates Code of Conduct Law, Runs Private Business

The Managing Director of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company, Marilyn Amobi, has continued to run and direct her private company in the United Kingdom, in what is clearly a contravention of Nigeria's code of conduct for public officers, PREMIUM TIMES can

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Somalia: CIA Officer Killed in Somalia Blast

[Shabelle] A CIA officer died during a raid in Somalia last month targeting a key extremist thought to be responsible for an attack that killed an American soldier in Kenya last year, local intelligence officials have told the Guardian.

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Kenya: Gor Mahia Fans Want to Attend APR Game in Exchange for 60,000 BBI Signatures

[Nairobi News] A section of Gor Mahia fans have promised to deliver 60,000 signatures for the BBI process if the government allows them to attend the return leg of the Caf Champions League preliminary round match against APR at the Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday.

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Nigeria: Interview - Cost of Nigeria's Oil Production Unsustainable - Sylva

At my inauguration in August 2019, our ministry was given eight mandate areas - to curb crude oil theft and products smuggling; completion of the gas flares commercialisation programme; increasing crude oil production to three million barrels per day; reducing the cost of crude oil production by

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Nigeria: Older People Often an Invisible Casualty in Conflict With Boko Haram

[AI London] Older people have suffered in unique ways from the conflict that has raged for almost a decade in Northeast Nigeria, with many starved or slaughtered in their homes or left to languish and die in squalid, unlawful military detention, Amnesty International said in a new report today.

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Africa: Success of AfCFTA Depends On Africa's Ability to Combat Corruption

[This Day] The President of the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Okey Oramah, has anchored the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on the ability of the continent to stem the tide of corruption and illicit financial flows.

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Prince's 'Sign o' The Times': A Timeless Masterpiece | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — After releasing “Around the World in a Day” in 1985 and “Parade” in 1986, to little excitement (compared to “Purple Rain”), critics and some fans opined that Prince had reached his creative peak. — Then came “Sign o’ The Times.”

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Nigeria: Flooding Affects 129,000 Across Nigeria, Kills 68 - NEMA

[Premium Times] An official says flooding affected 320 local government areas in 35 states, including Abuja.

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Eight African highlights to stream on Showmax this December

From 'Rogue' and 'Her Mask', here are eight African highlights to stream on Showmax this December.

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Nigeria: Bandits Attacks - Presidency Announces 'Major Proactive' Military Operation in Katsina

A day after scores of residents of a Katsina community blocked a highway to protest incessant attacks by armed bandits, the presidency announced the commencement of a major military operation to sweep bandits and kidnappers out of the

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Grandmaster Jay of Pro-Black Activist Group NFAC Arrested by the FBI

“Grandmaster Jay," founder of pro-Black activist group NFAC has been charged with assaulting federal task force officers for aiming a rifle at them

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Prince’s ‘Sign o’ The Times’: a timeless masterpiece -

'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name/by chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same…' That's how one … Source

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Nigeria: NDDC Crisis - Senator Threatens to Sue Buhari's Aide, NDDC Spokesperson

A Delta State senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, who was recently accused of contract fraud by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has threatened to sue an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, demanding a retraction and apology over a social media post he considers

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Prince’s ‘Sign o’ The Times’: A timeless masterpiece | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent “In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name/by chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same…” That’s how one of the greatest albums in history opened. The title track to Prince’s “Sign

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Nigeria: Ogun Residents Raze Fulani Settlement Over Abduction of Woman By Suspected Herdsmen

[Premium Times] The settlement was reportedly razed following incessant kidnappings in the area.

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Nigeria: Food Scarcity Looms as Nation's Reserves Decline - Report

[This Day] A surge in attacks on Nigerian farmers is having a knock-on effect on the country's food reserves, Bloomberg has reported.

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Nigeria: Jonathan Refuses to Rule Out 2023 Presidential Ambition

[Premium Times] Some APC governors recently held a private meeting with the ex-president in Abuja.

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Nigeria: Why Abidemi Rufai Should Not Be Granted Bail - U.S. Govt.

[Premium Times] "If he does escape to Nigeria, extradition will be extraordinarily difficult or impossible because of his ties to the Nigerian government."

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Lafarge braces for 30% sales plunge

SWISS-BASED cement maker Lafarge Holcim’s local unit, Lafarge Zimbabwe says it expects sales volumes to plunge 30% year-on-year in the second quarter of the year due to the COVID-19-induced

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Nigeria: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Nigerians React As Fela Loses to Tina Turner, Jay-Z

[Premium Times] The news comes as a surprise for Fela's fans because he placed second in the fan vote category on the last day of voting.

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Cameroon: Regional Elections Ends Despite Interruptions By Armed Separatists

[Ghanaian Times] Cameroon's first ever regional elections polling ended on Sunday evening despite interruptions by armed separatists in the country's English-speaking regions.

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