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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 ]
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 ...
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 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 ...
One passenger died and 71 people were injured when their Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore encountered severe turbulence Tuesday, throwing passengers and crew around the cabin and ...
8world News is a department which produces news, current affairs, and info-ed programmes for two Mediacorp channels aired in Mandarin, Channels 8 and U. Prior to 2010, the news were presented in three timeslots - News 8 At One (Chinese:1點新聞), which airs daily; Singapore Today (Chinese:獅城6點半), and News 8 at 10. (Chinese:10點新聞 ...
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