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Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who...

The legacy of Eliza Moore,...

The legacy of Eliza Moore, one of...

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson

Belinda Sutton: The remarkable Ghanaian slave who won the first reparation petition, by Gift Luckson Belinda Sutton (born 1713 in Africa), also known as Belinda Royall, was a woman born in what is now Ghana who was enslaved by the Royall family at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Background Additional details of Sutton's family life are under ongoing research. Baptism records for a son Joseph, and a daughter Prine, appear in church records. Belinda was abandoned by Isaac Royall Jr. when he fled to Nova Scotia at...
Mercy Adaje -
Business & Economy

Analyst proffers solutions...

Kenneth AFOR, LAGOS  Analyst proffers solutions to Nigeria's rising inflation  According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigeria's inflation figure in the month of June...
Kenneth Afor -
Business & Economy

Conversation with a...

Conversation with a friend on NNPC commercialisation, by Bashir Mahmoud Baffa Ahmad: they said the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) was commercialised not privatized as...
Aisha Auyo -
Feature

Miyetti Allah holds...

Miyetti Allah Holds Maiden Policy Dialogue in Abuja to tackle security challenges in the North Story from Aisha Auyo, Abuja The conference was said to be...
Aisha Auyo -
Feature

True concept of...

True concept of marriage, by Aisha Musa Auyo God created marriage for lifelong pleasure and happiness. Beyond any other human relationship, marriage has the potential...
Aisha Auyo -
Feature

Remembering 3 Potiskum...

Remembering 3 Potiskum airforce Pilots who died flying Plane Story from Aisha AUYO, Abuja Potiskum, the largest or 2nd largest town, in Yobe State, has lost...
Maryam Umar -
Crime

My Account from...

My Account from the Boiling Cauldron of Death, by Turaki B, Jalingo­′ I would have been seven days dead, close to that, or more than,...
Maryam Umar -
Columns

Journey to Grenada...

Journey to Grenada and reparations for slavery, by Azu Ishiekwene Conversation with Azu Nigeria’s spectacular crises in almost every facet of its national life are inescapable....
Salim Sani -
Feature

With N50 drug...

Yakubu Mohammed In Lagos, the proliferation of hard drugs is on the high with young minds, particularly girls being robbed of their brilliant future. In...
Kenneth Afor -
International

Nigerians In Diaspora:...

Nigerians In Diaspora: Meet Onyika Jackson, first Black woman, to serve as US Supreme Court Judge The United States Senate has confirmed Kentanji Onyika Brown...
Salim Sani -
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