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As an Israeli volunteer who recovers corpses, Moti Bukjin has worked at horrific disaster sites for decades, but nothing readied him for the carnage Hamas gunmen unleashed on a desert music festival on Saturday. “It turns out things can be much, much worse,” he said. He was among the first responders to the site of…
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The Council of Europe on Monday awarded its top rights prize to jailed Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has come under repeated attack from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The decision drew an angry response from Ankara, but was cheered on by groups that have long expressed worries about Turkey’s deteriorating human rights record under Erdogan.…
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Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State has offered a permanent and pensionable appointment to a casual worker at the state Pilgrims Welfare Board, Dayyabu Haladu, who returned missing $16,000 during the last Hajj operation in Saudi Arabia. This is contained in a statement by his Press Secretary Malam Bature Dawakin Tofa in Kano on Tuesday.…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it plans to challenge Monday’s disqualification of its Bayelsa governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, from the Nov. 11 poll. Mr Perry Tukuwei, the Director, Media and Publicity APC Bayelsa Gubernatorial Campaign Council, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Yenagoa. “The party has briefed its lawyers to appeal…
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TAF Africa, an international non-governmental organisation, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the 36 states governors, to consider appointments of People With Disabilities (PWDs) as Ministers and Commissioners, saying that, a group that constitutes 35million of the Nigerian population cannot be ignored. The NGO which is currently working to strengthen institutions on governance…