More than 6 million Syrians fled their homeland during that country’s almost 14-year-long civil war. Other nations took them in. It was the humanitarian thing to do.

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Sir John Verity lost his job because he won an argument. It was in his ninth year in office as Chief Justice of colonial Nigeria. Sir John arrived Nigeria in October 1945 from the British Guyana, ...

His vision for education converged with that of the Africans fighting for political liberation from colonial domination.

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Under the auspices of the Aga Khan Development Network, he founded and supported multiple education programmes ...

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Commendable as it is for initiative, this bill is plainly misguided for many reasons.The crisis of appellate throughput and its consequences which presently afflicts Nigeria's Supreme Court is too ...