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On 18 December 2024, 35 children died in a crowd crush during a Christmas funfair event in Ibadan, Nigeria. The incident occurred at the Bashorun district's Islamic High School, where thousands of children and family members had gathered for advertised cash handouts and food distributions. Six other children required hospitalization following ...
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...
Established in 1949 by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, it is the oldest privately-owned Nigerian newspaper still in circulation. [ 1 ] During the colonial period, the Nigerian Tribune served as a platform for promoting Obafemi Awolowo’s welfare programs and represented the interests of the Yoruba community during a time of ethnic competition. [ 2 ]
That year, Today had a circulation of 300,000, with more than half of its readers being professionals, managers, executives and businesspeople. [8] It was the second-most-read English-language newspaper in Singapore, after The Straits Times. [9] In April 2017, Today discontinued its weekend
“This happened a couple of times before she’s like, ‘Just give me the code,’” he recalled. “So I gave her the code.” Shortly after, Egle wrote, the driver told them they’d gotten ...
In 1980, chief editor Seah Chiang Nee announced the proposed launch of a new English-language broadsheet daily newspaper in 1981. [1]Sin Chew Daily had a 26 percent stake in the newspaper [2] and had planned to construct new buildings at Genting Lane, Singapore, to house both the Singapore Monitor and Chinese newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau.
tabla! is a weekly English language newspaper in Singapore, published by Tamil Murasu. [1] Launched on 10 October 2008, [2] it marked its third anniversary in October 2011 with the launch of the tabla! Community Champion Award. [1] tabla! also presented the Taj Express, a Bollywood musical that made its world premiere here in Singapore, on June ...
This tradition firmly established newspapers as a means to advocate for political reform and accountability, roles they continue to fulfill in Nigeria today. Until the 1990s, most publications were government-owned, but private papers such as the Daily Trust , Next , Nigerian Tribune , The Punch , Vanguard and the Guardian continued to expose ...