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A body of water that has carried the same name for centuries has become the newest front in the deepening quarrel between the United States and Canada, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” in American federal records. The order, signed at the Oval Office on Thursday,…
Chelsea have added a World Cup winner to their squad, completing the signing of Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez from Aston Villa in a move that says as much about the club’s long unsettled goalkeeping department as it does about the player’s decorated record. The 33-year-old, who turns 34 in early September, has agreed a…
A proposed law to place every foreign grant entering Nigeria under a single new regulator has hardened into one of the sharpest civil liberties disputes of the current National Assembly, with rights advocates now threatening to go to court if the bill becomes law. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and the Nigerian…
Fresh figures from Nigeria’s health authorities have laid bare the scale of a diphtheria outbreak that began almost four years ago and still refuses to end, with the overwhelming majority of victims turning out to be children who never received a single vaccine against a disease that is entirely preventable. The Director General of the…
Nigeria has recorded more than 10,000 confirmed diphtheria cases in 2026, a fresh indication that a disease preventable through routine vaccination remains a significant public health problem nearly four years after the country’s major outbreak began. The latest figure, disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) Director General, Dr Jide…
A five year sentence handed to former Ecuadorian President LenÃn Moreno over a bribery scheme linked to the country’s largest hydroelectric plant has brought renewed scrutiny to a project that was once presented as a cornerstone of Ecuador’s energy independence, but has also faced technical problems, contractual disputes and years of unresolved questions over…
The death toll from the catastrophic floods that struck Nepal and China’s Tibet region has climbed sharply, but the more important story emerging from the disaster is what it reveals about the growing vulnerability of communities, hydropower infrastructure and mountain economies to sudden climate and geological hazards. At least 626 people have been confirmed…
The dispute over the Nigeria Democratic Congress governorship ticket in Plateau State has moved beyond an internal party disagreement. With the 2027 election calendar advancing, the controversy is becoming a test of whether the relatively new opposition platform can convert its national political profile into a coherent structure at state level. The immediate issue…
The controversy over a Federal High Court judgment that briefly threatened the legal existence of five political parties has moved beyond the parties themselves. It has become a test of a more fundamental question in Nigeria’s justice system: what happens when a lower court is accused of proceeding despite an order from a superior court…
Atiku Abubakar’s age has returned to the centre of Nigeria’s 2027 presidential contest, but the more important question may not be whether the former vice president is old enough to lead. It is whether age, experience, health, succession and the ability to build a winning coalition will shape how voters judge his latest bid…