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Fifty Years of Gowon’s Overthrow, by Eric Teniola
Prompt News Online
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July 4, 2025
Tuesday, July 29,2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on the same Tuesday, July 29, 1975. Most of us remember where we were at 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday, July...
Liberia: Major/Attorney At Law Danicious Kwia Returns Home After Distinguished Service With The United Nations In South Sudan
Front Page Africa
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July 4, 2025
During his time with UNMISS, he played a pivotal role in supporting the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan. Monrovia, Liberia – Major and Attorney-at-Law Danicious Kwia has returned to...
Leading, not Lagging: The protection and promotion of human beingness in AI opportunity
Sierra Leone Telegraph
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June 24, 2025
Liu Chen Beijing: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2025: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to create significant value across sectors, and global economy has an opportunity to achieve leapfrog development on this transformative technology....
Fifty years of Gowon’s overthrow
The Cable
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July 4, 2025
Tuesday, July 29,2025 will be the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of General Yakubu Gowon GCFR. He was overthrown in a bloodless military coup on the same Tuesday, July 29, 1975. Most of us remember where we were at 6.00 a.m. on Tuesday, July...
Manchester City and OGC Nice reach agreement over Juma Bah loan
Get French Football News
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June 24, 2025
10According to a report from Fabrizio Romano, Manchester City and OGC Nice have reached a verbal agreement for defender Juma Bah (19) to join the Riviera club on loan. Les Aiglons overtook Olympique Lyonnais for the 19-year-old with the...
Eight men sentenced to lengthy jail terms for their part in biggest ever cocaine seizure in Ireland
The Journal
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July 4, 2025
EIGHT MEN HAVE been sentenced to a range of prison terms ranging from 20 years to 13 years for their part in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs seizure. The men were all arrested after a spectacular Garda, Revenue Customs and Defence Forces operation...
Africa must help steer the world away from deep-sea mining
Institute for Security Studies
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Africa must help steer the world away from deep-sea mining Unilateral deep-sea mining, such as that planned by the Trump administration, could have grave impacts on Africa. Under President Donald Trump, the United States’ (US) rush for critical...
Real Leadership Is How a Government Treats Its People – Influencer Hamza Koroma Tells SLPP Supporters
Sierraloaded
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June 23, 2025
Hamza Koroma, a Sierra Leonean youth leader and social media influencer, has urged citizens to stay grounded as political conversations around President Julius Maada Bio’s appointment as ECOWAS Chairman continue. In an open letter shared online,...
Southampton faithful will be thrilled by ambitious transfer targets - the future is bright: View
Football League World
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June 23, 2025
If the current transfer rumours are anything to go by, Southampton fans will be thrilled by the ambition being shown by the club. The future is bright. As the main summer transfer window enters another week, Southampton fans will be delighted by...
Pawtucket Police Log June 30 - July 3
The Blackstone Valley Call & Times - Rhode Island
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At 10:25 a.m., police took into custody Ramon Adorno of 127 Harrison St. (Apt. 1), Pawtucket, on a warrant at Black Lives Matter, 225 Main St. At 12:19 p.m., officers apprehended Carlos Acevedo Cardona of 80 Hedley Ave., Central Falls, for...
Pupils come together in Leamington for International Day of the African Child
Warwickshire World
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July 3, 2025
More than 500 enthusiastic pupils from schools across the Warwick district came together to celebrate the International Day of the African Child. The annual joyful and educational event highlights cultural diversity and global friendship. The...
NDC Launches Fancy Colored Diamonds Report
INSTOREMAG
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July 3, 2025
(PRESS RELEASE) As the world’s most prestigious and visionary Maisons prepare to illuminate Paris Couture Week with their dazzling creations featuring the rarest, most exquisite, fancy color diamonds, the world’s spotlight is on the astonishing...
ECOWAS: As Tinubu’s two years of robust leadership comes to an end, By Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe
Premium Times
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June 23, 2025
President Tinubu handing over the chairmanship of ECOWAS to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone The exit of President Tinubu as ECOWAS chairman will be profoundly felt. His contribution to making ECOWAS a stable, peaceful and united...
Headteacher's idea for bored schoolboys turned them into 'best' pupils
Liverpool Echo
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July 4, 2025
50 years ago today, a group of bored sixth form students at St. Anselm's College, a boys grammar school in Birkenhead, approached their headmaster Brother Kerrigan. They requested they be able to start a youth club at the school on Friday nights....
Juma Bah Fuels Manchester City Transfer Speculation
Sierraloaded
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June 18, 2025
Sierra Leonean footballer Abdulai Juma Bah has hinted at an imminent move to Manchester City, posting images on social media that suggest his arrival in England for a potential signing and unveiling. Bah shared an Instagram story featuring both an...
AS PRESIDENT BIO HEADS ECOWAS
This Day
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July 3, 2025
If there is renewed commitment to leadership, West Africa can surmount its pressing issues, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE The 67th Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States ended last...
Ivory coast man held in Mumbai for smuggling cocaine worth Rs 11.39 cr
Daijiworld News
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mumbai Mumbai, Jun 23: In a major drug bust, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested an Ivory Coast national who had ingested 67 capsules of cocaine valued at Rs 11.39 cr. The accused had arrived in Mumbai...
Mpox Cases Decline in Africa, But Vaccine Shortages Threaten Progress
teleSUR
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July 3, 2025 Hour: 2:57 pm The African continent has seen a notable decline in mpox cases over the past week, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). However, the agency warns that severe vaccine shortages...
Today-History-Jul03
Coast Reporter
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July 3, 2025
Today in History for July 3: In 1608, Samuel de Champlain established a settlement at Quebec City. He called it Kebec, an Algonquin word meaning "place where the river narrows. Today in History for July 3: In 1608, Samuel de Champlain established...
ECOWAS elects new chairman as Tinubu hands over
Eagle Online
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June 22, 2025
The President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, has emerged as Chairperson of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. The outgoing Chairperson, Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, announced this at the 67th Ordinary Session of the...