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Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Ndongo Samba Sylla (accra, ghana) Wednesday, April 03, 2024 Inter Press Service ACCRA, Ghana, Apr 03 (IPS) – Developing countries are being blamed for having borrowed and spent irresponsibly. But they have only been doing what foreign powers and financial interests have urged them to do. …

Davido’s aide, Israel Afeare, better known as Israel DMW, has gone on Instagram to place curses on his estranged wife again.   The logistics manager told his estranged wife that no business she lays her hands on would prosper and any man who touches her would die on the same …

Former Minister of Work, Babatunde Fashola, has said that calls for President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the ongoing political crisis in Rivers and Ondo states isn’t needed as the constitution does not allow such.    Speaking at the Nigerian Air Force Officers Mess Honourary Members Forum 2023 Annual Lecture …

The Biden administration has 43 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation in the Senate as Congress prepares to break for the holidays, a delay that is putting American national security and foreign policy interests in jeopardy around the world, the State Department said on Friday. Any nominee not confirmed before the …

Joe Ajaero expresses concern for Tinubu administration as previous government’s failed agreements with various groups remain unresolved. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has expressed his prediction that the incoming government of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, would encounter several industrial crises as a result of the …

Mangroves in Tai O, Hong Kong. Coastal wetland protection and restoration is an example of the kind of multifunctional solution that is needed to address multiple global crises together. Credit: Chunyip Wong / iStock Opinion by Paula Harrison – Pamela McElwee – David Obura (bonn) Thursday, March 02, 2023 Inter Press …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, says the current scarcity of fuel and naira notes is the handiwork of sabotuers.    Gbajabiamila made this known at a political gathering in Lagos state on Tuesday, February 14.   He said the fuel crisis and the lingering scarcity of …

Hong Kong CNN  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a virtual meeting Friday that their partnership was more important than ever in the face of “unprecedented pressure” from the West, as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine leaves it increasingly isolated on the global stage. While …

The 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Opinion by Azza Karam (new york) Wednesday, November 09, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Nov 09 (IPS) – In this year’s COP 27 two-weeklong summit in Egypt, which concludes November 18, a rough count indicates there will …

The  Muslim community in Kwara State has suggested that the names of all schools formerly owned by Muslim and Christian proprietors in the state should be changed as part of solutions to the hijab crisis in the state.   In a letter addressed to the State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the Muslim …