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Rice harvest: Kebbi now haven to millers, buyers

A major turnaround in the cultivation of rice is occuring in Kebbi State   Given the bountiful  harvest that is being recorded by farmers du

India’s forgotten African tribe

An African-origin ethnic tribe of about 20,000 people has been living in near total obscurity in India for centuries. The past few months in India hav

How polio returned to Nigeria

Borno state health commissioner, Haruna Mshelia, left Maiduguri for Abuja on Wednesday. Then the whispers began filtering. It was wild poliovirus, and

One-time slave Harriet Tubman to be new face of US $20 bill

The one-time slave turned abolitionist Harriet Tubman was recently named  as the new face of the $20 banknote, the first time an African American

Ladduga: Where 50,000 nomads face kidnapping, cattle rustling

Ladduga grazing reserve is one of the grazing reserves out of the 26 gazetted by the then  government of northern Nigeria. Now a district, it is