Protesters threaten to storm Lagos streets from Monday if

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  288 words  |  Martina Birk

One of the coordinators of the protest, Hassan Soweto, a member of the Youth Rights Campaign, said this while addressing the gathering at the Gani Fawehinmi Park on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a court order obtained before the start of the nationwide action had restricted all protests in the state to the park. The protesters would be defying the court order if they carry out the threat. [Read More]

Putin Sees Himself as Part of the History of Russia's Tsars

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1458 words  |  Tandra Barner

In the Kremlin room with that long white table where Putin entertains his foreign visitors there is a quartet of statues of the tsars he most admires. Their achievements are his benchmark of success. The first two statues are dedicated to the eighteenth-century rulers who established Russia as an empire on the European continent: Peter the Great, who conquered the Baltic lands in his wars against the Swedes; and Catherine the Great, who swallowed half of Poland, extended Russian power to the Black Sea through her wars against the Turks, and annexed the Crimea, from which the Russian navy dominated the Near East. [Read More]

Religion: At Princeton | TIME

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  440 words  |  Martina Birk

TIME November 1, 1926 12:00 AM GMT-5 As at many another U. S. institution, the name of Frank N. D. Buchman was only a name at Princeton, vaguely signifying personal interviews on religion, until last fortnight when Mr. Buchman’s approach to religious problems, through his subjects’ autoerotic tendencies was first made generally public (TIME, Oct. 18). Princeton men remembered that Mr. Buchman had been forbidden to practice his calling upon their campus two years ago, but not until last fortnight did they realize why. [Read More]

Ruth Kadiri welcomes 2nd child with hubby

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  35 words  |  Tandra Barner

The movie star took to her Instagram page on Thursday, July 21, 2022, where she announced the arrival of her second child.

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Stanbic IBTC Bank, Easybuy partner to make smartphone ownership accessible

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  270 words  |  Billy Koelling

This, therefore, limits the ability for many to maintain seamless virtual communication and conduct online personal and business transactions. Recognising this barrier to meeting this dire needs, Stanbic IBTC Bank has partnered with Easybuy, a retailer of smart devices, to offer partial financing solutions for individuals who need to purchase smartphones. This collaborative effort aims at facilitating ownership for individuals aged 18 to 59, irrespective of their economic background. [Read More]

The Little Prince: The True Events Behind the Story

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  423 words  |  Martina Birk

With The Little Prince coming to Netflix on Friday, more than 70 years will have passed since TIME, in reviewing the story on which the film is based, called author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry the “most metaphysical of aviators.” And, though the story of the Little Prince and his voyages among the planets is clearly fiction, Saint-Exupéry’s own experiences as a pilot helped inspire that tale. On the most obvious level, the plane crash that begins the story, through which the narrator meets the title character, mirrors a real mishap that left the author stranded in the Sahara in the mid-1930s, while on his way from Paris to Saigon on an airmail run. [Read More]

The Naked and the Dead

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  553 words  |  Kelle Repass

I like nudity. I like musicals. So what, I figured, could be better than a combination of the two, assuming Nathan Lane wasn’t involved? You can imagine my dismay in discovering that not only does the movie Moulin Rouge contain absolutely no nudity but the characters sing unmusical rock songs like Up Where You Belong and Smells Like Teen Spirit. I hadn’t felt this disappointed since learning that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a children’s movie. [Read More]

The role of Abobaku in the Yoruba Royal Monarchy

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  301 words  |  Patria Henriques

The Abobaku title is a form of chieftaincy that, like kingship, is peculiar to some certain families. Abobaku lives and enjoys the same luxurious life as the king; whatever the king eats or drinks, he has the same. When the king is on official or royal duties and is needed to travel, whether outside the town or country, the Abobaku chief follows. Safe to say, whatever luxury the king gets, he gets the same; wherever the king goes, he follows. [Read More]

Tucson, Ariz.: Worlds Greatest Places 2023

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  264 words  |  Patria Henriques

March 16, 2023 6:00 AM EDT There’s something revolutionary cooking in America’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Last year, Barrio Bread’s Don Guerra won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker, and he’s on a mission to revitalize Arizona-grown heritage grains. First brought here by 17th century Spanish missionaries, white Sonora wheat now crops up on the menus at restaurants like Maynards and the just-opened Bata and even in a Southwestern-inspired hefeweizen from Borderlands Brewing Co. [Read More]