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REPORT: Oxford dismisses ‘fake’ Nigerian professor over misogyny, fraudulent book launch with David Hundeyin
Onyeka Nwelue, a Nigerian author, has had his Academic Visitor status at Oxford University terminated after misusing the university’s logos and premises for commercial purposes, an investigation by Cherwell has found. Nwelue is also facing complaints of misogyny towards students and the spread of racist, classist, and sexist content online. The Fake Professor Nwelue, a self-published author and filmmaker, held…
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Israeli minister’s call to ‘erase’ Palestinian village an incitement to violence, US says
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call for a Palestinian village to be “erased” amounted to incitement to violence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must publicly disavow it, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. An ultranationalist in Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition, Smotrich made the comments at a conference on Wednesday amid a spate of deadly Palestinian attacks and Israeli settler violence…
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SCOAN’s partners donate £10,000 to Turkey earthquake relief
The Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) and its Emmanuel TV partners have donated £10,000 as relief support to victims of the recent earthquake that devastated some parts of Turkey and Syria. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake which occurred on February 6, 2023, and the aftershocks that followed, led to the death of more than 47,000. Some 4.6 million children…
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Justin Welby rejected as leader by conservative Anglicans over same-sex blessings
A group of Anglican leaders from around the world have rejected the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as their leader after the Church of England backed prayers of blessing for same-sex couples. Archbishops representing 10 of the 42 provinces in the Anglican Communion have signed a statement saying they no longer consider Mr Welby “leader of the global communion”. They…
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Buhari to brief successor on Nigeria-Comoros ties as he gets AU praise on respect of term limit
President Muhammadu Buhari says he takes the existing good neighborly relations between Nigeria and the Union of Comoro Islands to be very important, for which reason he will be briefing his incoming successor on the need to keep them.Speaking to Azali Assoumani, the President of the Union of Comoros who just took over as the Chairperson of the African Union…
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How Erdoğan’s obsession with power got in the way of Turkey’s earthquake response
When Ali Nusret Berker started seeing Twitter videos posted by people trapped under the rubble of the two Feb. 6 earthquakes in southern Turkey, they brought to mind the cousin he had lost when a massive earthquake hit his hometown near Istanbul in 1999. An avid cave explorer who just passed an exam to become an ambulance driver, the 33-year-old…
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Biden visits Kyiv, Ukraine’s embattled capital, as air-raid siren sounds
President Biden made a surprise trip to the embattled capital of Ukraine on Monday, traveling under a cloak of secrecy into a war zone to demonstrate what he called America’s “unwavering support” of the effort to beat back Russian forces nearly a year after they invaded the country. Mr. Biden arrived early Monday morning to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky,…
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Ukraine war: Russia must be defeated but not crushed, Macron says
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he does not want to see Russia crushed by a defeat in Ukraine. Speaking to French media, Mr Macron urged Western nations to increase military support for Kyiv and said he was prepared for a protracted war. “I want Russia to be defeated in Ukraine, and I want Ukraine to be able to defend…
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Jimmy Carter to begin receiving home hospice care
Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia, according to a statement from The Carter Center on Saturday. “After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has…
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Buhari canvasses suspension of blanket visa ban by UAE
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for a lifting of the blanket visa ban clamped down on Nigerians by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The President canvassed this position on Monday during a telephone conversation with the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who doubles as the Emir of Abu Dhabi. President…
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