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Team Nigeria secured gold in the women’s 4x400m relay at the African Athletics Championships held in Accra, Ghana, on Sunday. The Nigerian quartet consisting of Esther Okon, Toheebat Jimoh, Jecinter Lawrence and Patience Okon-George put in an impressive performance, finishing in 3:29.25 to claim first place. Nigeria crossed the finish line comfortably ahead of Ethiopia, who took silver, while Kenya …

TAPPITA, Nimba County, May 15, 2026 — Businessman William F. Kotee Jr. has called for increased national investment in Liberia’s health workforce, warning that persistent shortages of nurses and midwives, coupled with ongoing maternal health challenges, continue to threaten the country’s healthcare system and future development. Kotee made the remarks during the International Nurses and Midwifery Week celebration held at …

May 15, 2026 marked the 80th birthday of one of Nigeria’s most enduring revolutionary intellectuals, Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu: mathematician, journalist, Marxist theorist, archivist, teacher, agitator and organizer. For more than fifty years Edwin Madunagu has stood firmly on the side of workers, students, women, farmers and the oppressed. While governments changed, dictators rose and fell, and many abandoned radical politics, …

New cracks emerged in the Labor Party as the party leadership warned candidates and supporters against purchasing nomination forms from former National Chairman Julius Abure, insisting the documents lacked legitimacy. The warning was issued on Sunday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ken Asogwa, amid renewed tensions over the party’s leadership crisis ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a …