Terrorism after the Christmas Day bombings, By Abimbola Adelakun

Anyone who expected Nigerians to push back against foreign intervention in the country’s insecurity and insist that their national sovereignty be respected would have found themselves awfully wrong by now. Not only did people seem excited, but the euphoria that accompanied the Christmas Day bombings in Sokoto showed how quickly we can set aside partisan […]

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Christmas Day becomes an official nationwide holiday in Iraq

The Iraqi government has eventually made Christmas Day, December 25, an official nationwide holiday, to mark the ‘occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ’. The announcement was made Tuesday, after the Iraqi Cabinet approved an amendment to its national holiday’s law which creates a new official one ‘on the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ‘. A tweet […]

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