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It took 27 years after Barack Obama became the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review for another milestone to be reached, this time, with a Black woman at the helm. In 2017, ImeIme Umana made history as the first Black female president of the prestigious 130-year-old journal, a role regarded as one of …
ABUJA— The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declined to legalise prostitution in the country, even as it dismissed a suit that sought to enforce fundamental rights of commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice James Omotosho, while describing prostitution as an immoral act …
As women all over the world celebrate International Women’s Day, 4 Communities by Communities (4CbyC) is shining a light on the incredible stories of women fighting cervical cancer. … for my graduation, wedding As panic set in, Ene asked, “Will she make it? Long enough for my graduation? My wedding?” However, Funke promised that they …
Nigeria joins the world in celebrating International Women’s Day with gender activists mourning the decimation of their numeral strength in governance. The 1999 Senate had three women: Senators Florence Ita-Giwa, Stella Omu, and Khairat Gwadabe. However, 25 years later, it is a mark of the nation’s disrespect for gender equality that the IWD would be marked with …
After rejecting what the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said was a final offer, representatives of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) called a strike for all the union’s members to begin at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on March 7, 1988. The origins of the strike went back to late 1987, when producers began …
The New Republic publishes Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The poem, beginning with the famous line “Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village though,” has introduced millions of American students to poetry. Like most of Frost’s poetry, “Stopping by Woods” adopts the tone of a simple …
Just one day after the death of long-time Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov is named premier and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Malenkov’s tenure was extremely brief, and within a matter of weeks he was pushed aside by Nikita Khrushchev. Malenkov was one of the few old-time Bolsheviks who had survived Stalin’s bloody purges …
On March 4, 1974, actress Mia Farrow from The Great Gatsby graces the cover of the inaugural issue of People, a weekly celebrity and human interest magazine spotlighting the personal lives of notable and intriguing people. People remains one of America’s best-selling weeklies. People’s founding editor Richard Stolley came from the newsweekly LIFE, where he’d been assistant managing editor—and gained fame for acquiring the Zapruder film of J.F.K.’s …
At the turn of the 20th century, enterprising showmen were eager to exploit the emerging technology of motion pictures. In fact, the very first venues for showing motion pictures in America weren’t theaters, but “amusement halls” and penny arcades. In the late 19th century, the public often got its first taste of new technologies at coin-operated …
The Jigawa State and Local Governments Contributory Pension Scheme Board has commenced the disbursement of N733,517,011.13 million as terminal/death benefits to 281 retirees and relatives of deceased civil servants. TodayPriceNG reports that this significant payout is part of the state government’s efforts to honor the hard work and dedication of civil servants upon their retirement. …