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The Ankara material is always in demand year in, year out particularly among Africans. Clients, designers and stylist are always eager to impress and stand out with creative ideas and designs created with the Ankara materials. Check them out below: \ Photo Credit: Fashion and Styles Zone, Lacesnmore (Naijanews)

The Ankara wax print, more simply and popularly known as ‘Ankara’ is already known worldwide to represent the African culture. Over the years, fashion designers and stylists strive to create the best style and fit for their clients which means constantly, all stakeholders, including the clients, are always on the lookout for latest styles and designs. Check them out below: Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles Latest Ankara Styles (NaijaNews)

By Akanimo Sampson Initiatives developed through the International Labour Organisation (ILO)-supported Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) programme and the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) have been recognised in the 2019 Future Policy Awards. Senegal’s National Strategy for the Promotion of Green Jobs was selected from 67 nominated policies from 36 countries as one of the two winners of the Future Policy Vision Award. The ILO supported the Senegalese government in creating and implementing the strategy, which has created 2,000 green jobs. South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) received the Bronze award in the category for Decent and…

By Akanimo Sampson Arguably, little remains of the once bustling Benin City, the base of the great Benin Kingdom, and the capital of Edo State in Southern Nigeria today. The once-mighty city is currently the main sender place of origin of the socio-economic harassed Nigerians migrating irregularly towards Libya in search of greener pastures in Europe. Without the doubt, the city of Benin was once the capital of the legendary Edo Kingdom of Benin, one of the oldest states in West Africa. It dates back to the 11th century. In a bid to clean up its ugly present situation, the…

By Akanimo Sampson The impeachment of Kogi State Deputy Governor and subsequent swearing in of another has attracted a barrage of condemnation from many Nigerians. A constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has accused the Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nadir Ajana, of aiding “constitutional vandals’’ to set the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ablaze. According to him, “Ajana swore to uphold the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but that constitution has been set ablaze by constitutional vandals in Kogi State, aided by the Chief Judge of the State.’’ Ajana on Monday swore…

By Nestor B. Udoh In my secondary school days, we used to take turns scrambling to read RAY EKPU’s column in the Sunday Chronicle. We would wait expectantly for the newspaper to appear, read the column excitedly and look forward to seeing new English words in his write-ups. The most interesting part is that he coined some of those words. And the mechanical accuracy of his grammar would make you think he may have been an English man in his last incarnation. I still have the first edition of Newswatch magazine he co-founded with the late Dele Giwa, one of the…

Donald Trump referred to impeachment proceedings against him as a “lynching” in a Tuesday morning tweet, sparking condemnation for using such a racially charged word to describe his political predicament. “So some day,” the president wrote, “if a Democrat becomes president and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the president, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!” The tweet fit with Trump’s history of racist remarks and his strategic use of cruelty, and some saw…

After four years of legal sparring and finger-pointing, oil-industry giant Exxon Mobil went to court on Tuesday for charges that the company lied to shareholders and to the public about the costs and consequences of climate change. The case turns on the claim that Exxon kept a secret set of financial books that seriously underestimated the costs of potential climate change regulation while claiming publicly that it was taking such factors into account. It follows a sprawling investigation that included millions of pages of documents and allegations of a chief executive’s secret email account. It is only the second climate-change…

South Africans living in Mpumalamga province have attacked Nigerians in a fresh wave of xenophobic violence. Channels Television correspondent in South Africa reports that further information concerning the attack is still sketchy as the crew is on its way to the province for details. The leadership of Nigerian Citizens In South Africa (NICASA) and Nigeria’s Consular General to South Africa are also on their way to Witbank in Mpumalanga province to gather more information on the attack. This fresh attack comes a few weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa, and called for the protection of Nigerians and other…

The early passage and publication of budget is now a brisk business to any tier of government in Nigeria wishing to benefit from a foreign financial windfall. Consequently, Mr. Akan Okon, Commissioner for Economic Development and Ibom Deep Seaport speaking during a one-day public hearing on A bill to appropriate monies out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and Capital Development Fund to the service of Akwa Ibom State Government and for other matters connected therewith organised by House Committee on Appropriation and Finance wants the House to speedily pass the budget into law. Okon presenting a position paper of his…