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Dambazau: IPOB, OPC similar to Boko Haram they don’t believe in Nigeria Abdulrahman Dambazau, a former chief of army staff, says the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) share similarities with Boko Haram.Advertisement He said the.
Prison officials injured as inmates attempt jailbreak in Bauchi Two officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) in Bauchi have sustained injuries, after a riot at the facility. Advertisement Abubakar Adam, NCS spokesperson in the state, in an interview with.
Okonjo-Iweala: Access to COVID vaccine biggest economic stimulus for developing countries Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), says the biggest economic stimulus for developing countries is access to COVID vaccine.Advertisement She spoke during the last session of the.
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After the Capitol was cleared of insurrectionists last week, there was work to be done and it wasn't lost on many that cleaning up the mess would fall largely to Black and Brown people.
Imagine the first-generation students who end up at one of the top colleges in the country. They are largely from lower-income families and more likely to be minority students than the entire student body. They enter universities with amazing potential to provide academic and other resources. But are they well served? Are they happy? Should the universities be doing more? These are some of the questions Rachel Gable answers in
The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities (Princeton University Press). Gable, director of institutional effectiveness at Virginia Commonwealth University, conducted more than 100 interviews with first-generation students at Harvard and Georgetown Universities. She answered questions about the book via email.
In the debate over whether or not China will soon rise to challenge the United States as the world’s hegemon, it is often assumed that states with large aggregate economies are necessarily more militarily powerful ones.
This stems from decades-old methods that remain popular among scholars and pundits who write on international relations and foreign policy.
The theory goes like this: states that rule over economies with a large gross domestic product (GDP) have more access to resources. This means more access to weapons, food, personnel, and a variety of other resources necessary to carry out military operations or project power in the international sphere.