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Bulldog Barks and Bytes : Diamond Dawgs Baseball 

Can smu win the acc?

This is incredible. *SMU (6-1, 3-0) *has already beaten Florida St, Louisville and Stanford in ACC conference play this season, and appears to have the inside track to playing Clemson in the ACC title game in December. Yeah, the Mustangs still have 5 conference games left --and anything can...

The Punch 

Ganduje, APC govs woo aggrieved aspirants for Aiyedatiwa

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, governors and party leaders at various levels were in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Sunday, to galvanise support for its governorship candidate, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, ahead of the November 16 election. At the meeting, which was attended by Aiyedatiwa and aspirants with whom he contested

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The Punch 

INEC rejects PDP’s request for Ondo REC’s redeployment

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has insisted on its call for the removal of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, over her indigeneship. The party, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission’s failure to mention her state of origin

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The Punch 

New listings push market cap to N59tn

The bullish run that the Nigerian Exchange enjoyed in the past week propelled the market capitalisation to almost N60tn mark, closing at N59.43tn. The market gained N3.34tn last week despite closing in the red in three of the five trading sessions. The All-Share Index rose 0.48 per cent week-on-week to 98,070.23 points as the year-to-date

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The Punch 

Canada-based nurse, two bizmen nabbed for alleged drug trafficking

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Canada-based Nigerian nurse, identified as Usman Grace Khadijat Olami and two businessmen, identified as Ihejirika Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Victory, for alleged drug trafficking. Ihejirika, who frequently travels to Thailand, claiming to import fish into Nigeria, was arrested on October 15, 2024, while attempting to

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«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

President Biden and first lady toast a reimagined White House tour that she's unveiling on Monday

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday toasted the unveiling of a long-awaited reimagined public White House tour. The couple held a dinner in celebration of the first lady’s update of the White House public tour. The updates will be unveiled on Monday. President Biden, who is not seeking reelection, said in a speech to guests that he and the first lady hope to “inspire future generations to write the next chapter” of the White House's history after their last four years as “temporary... Читать дальше...

Nytimes.com 

How Aleksei Navalny’s Prison Diaries Got Published

In his posthumous memoir, compiled with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny faced the fact that Vladimir Putin might succeed in silencing him. The book will keep “his legacy alive,” Navalnaya said.

Eurasia Review 

The Geopolitical Transformation Of The Middle East – OpEd

The murder of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is in line with the elimination of Hamas and Hezbollah’s leaders. This plan of eliminating the leaders of the so-called axis of resistance is apparently part of Israel’s strategy to cut off the arms of Iran in the region as a precondition to isolate Iran and possibly defang Tehran of its nuclear program.

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Public Discourse  

Defending Capital Punishment: A Response to Dennis Uhlman

Is Uhlman’s position that all executions for murder violate pro-life principles, or only executions for which there is some residual doubt of guilt, however small? In any system run by fallible human beings, however well-intended, mistakes are possible. Is the mere possibility of error enough to reject the death penalty in its entirety? Or is his position that wrongful executions are so common in the United States that the pro-life advocate should reject capital punishment as applied in this country at this time? Читать дальше...