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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 Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the fourth-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world .
Online newspapers have also been able to bypass government restrictions because content can be shared without the need for any physical infrastructure. The result has been a disruption of the traditional sources of news which have dominated the media industry. Recent online newspapers include Sahara Reporters, Ripples Nigeria, and Premium Times ...
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 ]
Elephind was a search engine for digitized versions of newspapers from various countries, with the goal of making it possible to search all digitized newspapers from a single website. [1] As of July 2021, 3,600,000 newspapers were accessible on the website, many of them not accessible through Google. The website was shut down mid-October 2023.
In 2005, the government of India unveiled a bold scheme to bring its poorest citizens into the 21st century. It would commission a series of coal-fired power plants — each with seven times the capacity of its average U.S. counterpart — that would provide cheap electricity in a country where one-third of the population lives off the grid.
The Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act 2005 comes into force in India. BBC News; India signs a fresh contract with Russia to buy 330 T-90S main battle tanks in CKDs for local assembly. Daily News & Analysis; 2006 ICC Champions Trophy: West Indies beats India by 3 wickets in a thriller ninth cricket match at Ahmedabad. (CricInfo.com)
Adiamoh was born in Ibadan to a teacher and architect. The second of six children, he attended Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan and Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho, Nigeria. He left Nigeria during the Abacha administration and settle in the Gambia, where he established himself as a business journalist with the Daily Observer Newspaper.