AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas sun was just beginning to rise over central Austin as groups of neatly-dressed law students arrived at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, a beige monolith plopped on the southwestern corner of the University of Texas’s sprawling campus. Once inside the lobby, the students ascended two flights of stairs, crossed a […]
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ABIJOHN.COM ADS SEARCH ENGINE DIRECTORY VIEW ALL ARTICLES LATEST Ibrahimovic, 41, Becomes Euro Qualifying’s Oldest Player Mbappe Gets Off To Winning Start As France Captain Woman Burned Alive By Boyfriend In Peru Organ Harvesting: Ekweremadu, Wife, Doctor To Be Sentenced On May 5 Nigeria Air To Begin Operations Before May 29 — FG No Meeting […]
Read MoreNaira Devaluation Looms as Banks Cut FX Sales
Indications have emerged that the Nigerian naira could be heading for a devaluation as the nation battles foreign currency (FX) scarcity, forcing the authority to ration the United States (US) dollars to citizens with eligible demand. Last week, deposit money banks (DMBs) announced a decision to cut personal and business travelling allowance to customers by […]
Read MoreIs the United States Creating a ‘Legion of Doom’?
Moscow has directed a lot of vitriol toward the West over the past year. The volume of that rhetoric sometimes drowns out an awkward fact about Moscow’s foreign policy reorientation away from the West and toward allies like China and Iran: Russian elites are not exactly thrilled with their new partners. In my conversations with […]
Read MoreBiden issues first veto, knocks Marjorie Taylor Greene
President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed his first bill, blocking the repeal of a Labor Department rule that permitted retirement investing tied to environmental and social goals. The veto was expected, after the Biden administration fought Republican-led efforts to pass the rollback three weeks ago. The House and Senate votes attracted support from three Democrats, […]
Read MoreWhen Silicon Valley Libertarians Realized They Needed the Government, and Vice Versa
For years, Silicon Valley and Washington have been going through an acrimonious political divorce. An industry that had long been subsidized by government investment, going back to the inventions of the internet and the computer itself, became ever more libertarian in its orientation. The capital fell out of love with the culture and products of […]
Read MoreOpinion | The Lessons of the Great Depression Are Being Ignored
President Franklin D. Roosevelt could teach today’s regulators and politicians a lot about how to deal with a banking crisis. Two aspects of his leadership from his first year in office stand out. First, FDR understood the danger of excessive government protection of banks and would be dismayed by the extent of it today. He […]
Read MorePat Schroeder Mastered Using Humor in Politics, Long Before Social Media
Pat Schroeder was never supposed to win her congressional seat. As she recounted in her 1998 book 24 Years of House Work … and the Place Is Still a Mess — a title that hints at the irreverent public figure she cut in Washington — she was recruited as a “kamikaze” anti-war candidate for Colorado’s […]
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Ramadan begins on Thursday – Sultan of Sokoto says
The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Saad Abubakar, has confirmed the sighting of the new crescent, marking the beginning of Ramadan 1444AH. The Sultan disclosed this in a live broadcast held on Wednesday evening, March 22, calling on Muslims to pray for Nigeria during the […]
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27-year-old woman and her Nigerian boyfriend arrested with drugs in South Africa
A woman and her Nigerian boyfriend were arrested with drugs by members of the East London Tactical Response Team (TRT) in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The provincial spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, in a statement on Wednesday, March 22, said Promise Uchechukwu, 29, and his girlfriend, Anihle Sikade, 27, […]
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