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• Switch to Solar and start saving with BrightestHomes! May 16, 2024
  Embrace solar for a brighter future!
• Young middle-class Nigerians are desperate to leave the country: insights into why May 3, 2024
  Since the 1980s, migration has been a part of the Nigerian middle-class psyche, catalysed by the usual suspects: high unemployment, security concerns, infrastructure gaps, and poor governance. Migrants tends to be middle-class since one needs
• How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa May 1, 2024
  To begin with, Winnie and Nelson mythologised themselves. Both intuitively understood that their greatest talent lay in public performance. Not just any public performance, but the sort that is exemplary, that embodies a collective spirit, a set of
• 30 years after genocide: Rwanda’s older generations fear a return of ethnic tensions, but youth feel more united April 12, 2024
  It’s 30 years since a genocide ripped through Rwandan society, leaving up to a million Tutsi and non-extremist Hutu dead. Every year in early April, the country enters a 100-day period of commemoration during which Rwandans are asked to remember and
• Government urges public to Stop! Think Fraud April 6, 2024
  Against the backdrop of data which shows that: fraud accounts for approximately 38% of all crime in England and Wales, the UK Government has launched ‘Stop! Think Fraud’ - a new national campaign against fraud which urges everyone to stop and think
• The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 620 (April 3 - 16 2024) April 3, 2024
  The Gambia may allow Female Genital Mutilation again
• The Gambia may allow female genital mutilation again – another sign of a global trend eroding women’s rights April 2, 2024
  The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) since 2015 is under threat. Proposed changes before parliament could permit medicalised female genital cutting and allow it for consenting adults.
• The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 619 (March 20 - April 2 2024) March 20, 2024
  Why children are prime targets of armed groups in Northern Nigeria.
• The casualties of Okuama March 19, 2024
  No one is safe. When a people turn against the same men who have been assigned to protect them, there can be no stronger proof of the failure of the State. The murder of four officers and 13 other ranks in Okuama is as President Bola Tinubu has
• Why children are prime targets of armed groups in northern Nigeria March 19, 2024
  Due to growing insecurity, Nigeria is gradually becoming one of the most dangerous places to live. The 2020 Global Terrorism Index identified the country as the third most affected by terrorism. There was a sharp increase in Boko Haram’s targeting of