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Onakoya: Playing Chess from The Slum to World Record

This Day 23 Apr 2024
Nigerians have every reason to be proud of him ... The idea of the slum as place and metaphor is a strong referent in Nigerian popular imagination more so the fact that great things do happen in small places ... Nigerians love opportunities.
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Chibok Girls, 10 Years After: Matters Arising 

This Day 23 Apr 2024
The CRA guarantees Nigerian children the right to basic education which it made free, compulsory and universal ... by finding the missing Chibok girls, and ensuring safe schools for Nigerian children.
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B.C. massage school must pay Muslim man $10,000 in discrimination case

North Shore News 23 Apr 2024
... most recently referring to ‘evidence of Islamists killing, raping and torturing Nigerian women and children over [Christmas] 2023,’” according to tribunal documents.
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A Nigerian chess champion plays the royal game for 60 hours - a new global ...

Korea Times 21 Apr 2024
Tunde Onakoya, center, a Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, plays a chess game in Times Square in New York, Friday ... Among the dozens who cheered Onakoya on at the scene was Nigerian music star Davido.
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Nigerian chess champion plays for 60 hours to set global record

The Grio 21 Apr 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
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United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Nigerian Media Leaders Sign Groundbreaking Partnership to Boost Children’s Rights Advocacy

Capital Ethiopia 20 Apr 2024
“This partnership with the Nigerian Guild of Editors and DAME harnesses the media’s immense potential as an advocate for the welfare of children.
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Nigerian chess pro sets new global record with 60-hour marathon

Arab Times 20 Apr 2024
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
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A Nigerian chess champion plays the royal game for 60 hours — a new global chess record

The Call 20 Apr 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
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Nigerian chess champion breaks world record, plays for 60 hours

Gulf Today 20 Apr 2024
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
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A Nigerian chess champion plays the royal game for 60 hours — a new global ...

Springfield News-Sun 20 Apr 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City's Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon.
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Nigeria’s army rescues a woman abducted from Chibok as a schoolgirl, and her 3 children

The Grio 20 Apr 2024
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers rescued a woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok, the army said Thursday. Her three children were also rescued.
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Nigerian chess champion breaks record after playing nonstop for 58 hours

The Guardian 20 Apr 2024
Tunde Onakoya, who beat previous record of 56 hours, hopes to raise $1m for ...
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UNICEF, Guild of Editors Sign Partnership to Boost Children’s Rights Advocacy

This Day 20 Apr 2024
“This partnership with the Nigerian Guild of Editors and DAME harnesses the media’s immense potential as an advocate for the welfare of children.
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North-west worst hit as child forced labour passes 24m in Nigeria — NBS

Business Day Online 19 Apr 2024
Over 24 million Nigerian children were involved in child labour, while 14.3 million children were engaged in hazardous work in. read more North-west worst hit as child forced labour passes 24m in NigeriaNBS ... .
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