When a failing chemical tank at a California aerospace plant forced 50,000 people to flee with nowhere certain to return to Dennis Christian grabbed his dog, Rue, stuffed what he could into a bag, and walked out of the only home he knew in Garden Groove, California. He did not know when — or whether […]
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Inside the Ebola epidemic tearing through eastern Congo — where burying the dead has become a death sentence They came to bury a neighbour. They left carrying a virus. That is how Ebola has always moved through eastern **** — not only through blood and fever, but through grief itself. Through the hands that wash
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A Federal High Court has upended Nigeria’s 2027 election timetable on Thursday. May 21, striking down INEC’s strict deadlines and giving political parties until September 2026 to finalize registers and candidates. Justice Mohammed Garba Umar, of the Federal High Court, ruled that INEC overstepped its authority by imposing early cut‑offs. He affirmed that the Electoral
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Nigeria’s education sector has entered a historic new phase following the appointment of Segun Aina as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. At just 39 years old, Prof Aina becomes the youngest individual ever appointed to lead the examination body, succeeding Is-haq Oloyede, whose tenure ends on
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Democracy is often celebrated as government by popular consent. Yet, in many emerging democracies, the real struggle is not whether elections are conducted, but whether political participation remains genuinely competitive. In contemporary time, this tension is increasingly reflected in the growing culture of “consensus candidacy” within political parties — a practice that, while legally permissible
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Arsenal moved to the brink of the Premier League title on Tuesday night, defeating Burnley 1–0 at the Emirates Stadium to open a four-point lead over Manchester City with one game remaining. The decisive goal arrived in the 37th minute as Mikel Arteta’s side controlled the contest with authority, dominating possession and limiting Burnley to
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Third on the continent by GDP, thirtieth by per capita income, twenty-ninth by human development — Nigeria’s economic story is a monument to extraction dressed as progress. TMN Editorial Board | May 2026 Nigeria has long worn the title “Giant of Africa” with ceremonial confidence. The numbers increasingly suggest something far less triumphant: a giant
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Nigeria’s security crisis has outgrown the capacity of conventional state institutions. From insurgency in the North-East to banditry in the North-West, kidnapping across the South-East and Middle Belt, oil theft in the Niger Delta, and urban criminality in major cities, the Nigerian state is confronted by a multidimensional threat environment that has stretched the Police,
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Johannesburg — South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to authorise a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into an alleged R2 billion revenue shortfall in the City of Ekurhuleni. The party said the alleged shortfall raises serious concerns about financial accountability and governance within one of South Africa’s largest metropolitan
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Goma/Kinshasa — Conservation officials have announced the rare birth of twin mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, describing the event as a major conservation milestone for one of the world’s most endangered species. The twins were born to an endangered mountain gorilla in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, home to part of the remaining
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