Gentleman of the media, we greet you as we start a new phase in our twelve year old strategic civil liberty advocacy campaigns. This new campaign is to monitor proceedings in the courts of law and to highlight areas that infringes on the human rights of citizens and undermines judicial integrity. Today, we are beginning […]
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By Emmanuel Onwubiko The constant xenophobic violence unleashed on Nigerians living in South Africa has a constant reminder for the millions of Nigerians who subscribed to the paid television services of the wholly South African operated Multichoice television otherwise known as DSTV. This reminder that the series of xenophic attacks on Nigerians in South African […]
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The film industry in the United States of America otherwise known as Hollywood is currently in an emotional turmoil following the outbreak of massive public disclosures of serial sexual harassment and cases of sexual abuses made against one of America’s top rated king makers in the industry known as Mr. Harvey Weinsteins. As I put […]
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From the top of the six-story lighthouse, water stretches beyond the horizon in every direction. A foghorn bleats twice at 22-second intervals, interrupting the endless chatter of herring gulls. At least twice a day, beginning shortly after dawn, researchers climb steps and ladders and crawl through a modest glass doorway to scan the surrounding sea, […]
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It’s become a familiar and somewhat pastoral sight in the area of Henrico’s Twin Hickory subdivision — a meandering pig. Police responded to Nuckols Road after 8 a.m. on Tuesday to nab the animal that was running back and forth in the road, said Lt. Shawn Sears, with the Henrico AnimalProtection Police. The pig, which officers cornered off the road, is […]
Continue ReadingWith mouths aghast, millions of Nigerians and friends of Nigeria from around the globe watched as President Muhammadu Buhari granted his first most important international media interview and made a frightening disclosure. This was barely weeks after he was inaugurated on may 29th 2015 when he honored an invitation extended to him by the then […]
Continue ReadingIggy is being cared for at the SSPCA’s Lanarkshire centre after being found at the side of a road. Photograph: Scottish SPCA/PA A giant iguana more than 1.5 metres (5ft) long is being cared for by animal welfare experts after he was found in a layby in Scotland. The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty […]
Continue ReadingStomach-churning symbols of the environmental calamity facing China have never been in short supply: exploding watermelons, toxic running tracks, rivers that flow the colour of blood. Now, the world’s number one polluter brings you: porcine mass graves. That was the foul-smelling surprise environmental inspectors unearthed in the eastern province of Zhejiang last month during an inspection linked to Beijing’s much-vaunted […]
Continue ReadingAustralia’s live export trade has seen 4,000 sheep and over 500 cattle die in the first half of 2017. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters Nearly 4,000 sheep and more than 500 cattle died while being shipped overseas in the first half of 2017, a report tabled to federal parliament has said. One particularly deadly voyage, where almost […]
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