Wednesday, June 18, 2025

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Nigeria campus queen for Paraguay beauty pageant

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a camera after he released cheetahs following their translocation from Namibia, in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, September 17, 2022. India’s Press Information Bureau/Handout via REUTERS

Cheetahs return to India after 70-year absence

A glacier is pictured calving into the river, in Queulat National Park, in Aysen, Chile September 9, 2022. Courtesy Surreal Travel/Handout via REUTERS

Mountain glacier in Chile's Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures

Tea tins featuring pictures of Queen Elizabeth II are displayed for sale at a gift shop in London, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Just days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, unofficial souvenirs have rolled out at royal-themed gift shops in London and online marketplaces like Amazon and Etsy. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A piece of the queen: New souvenirs mark monarch’s death

People

Nico: In Search of peace through lens of the media

Anambra: Amorka community celebrates New Yam festival

Anambra: Amorka community celebrates New Yam festival

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Orosanye report: Four years ago and today

Empty chairs are seen on a beach which is usually full of tourists, amid fear of coronavirus in Phuket, Thailand March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

Thailand targets $11 bln tourism revenue in H2 as COVID controls ease

Performers dance during the Family Day at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Sunday Aug. 28, 2022. The Carnival returned to the streets for the first time in two years, after it was thwarted by the pandemic. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Notting Hill Carnival returns to London streets after hiatus

Secretary to Bauchi State Government Barr Kashim Mohammed

We will privatise Yankari Game Reserve, Bauchi govt insists as APC kicks against process

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INAC: How Nigeria networked the world

Cultural diplomacy will address Nigeria’s challenges – Runsewe

Cultural diplomacy will address Nigeria’s challenges – Runsewe

A Tasmanian tiger photographed in Australia’s Hobart Zoo (undated)

Tasmanian tiger: Scientists hope to revive marsupial from extinction

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Looted artifacts: From light to darkness

FILE – In this July 22, 2019, file photo provided by Rodrigo Vargas, a boat moves through Cristalino II State Park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. There was an uproar in recent days after a state court invalidated the huge park. But the court backpedaled Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, and reopened the lawsuit. The judicial reversal is a setback for a cattle rancher dubbed the single worst destroyer of rainforest on record. (Rodrigo Vargas via AP, File)

In reversal, Brazil court reopens case of rainforest park

In this photo provided by the University of Arizona and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a male jaguar photographed by motion-detection wildlife cameras in the Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona on April 30, 2015 as part of a Citizen Science jaguar monitoring project conducted by the University of Arizona, in coordination with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. According to Borderlands Linkages, a binational collaboration of eight conservation groups, this cat is known as “El Jefe,” or “The Boss,“ is one of the oldest jaguars on record along the border and one of few known to have crossed the border. (University of Arizona and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

‘El Jefe’ the jaguar, famed in US, photographed in Mexico

Asa Day Worldwide, FG to hold 2022 Asa Day in Canada

Asa Day Worldwide, FG to hold 2022 Asa Day in Canada

Seaweed covers the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. A record amount of seaweed is smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados as tons of brown algae kill wildlife, choke the tourism industry and release toxic gases, according to the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Record amount of seaweed is choking shores in the Caribbean

FILE- Benin bronzes objects are displayed at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, June 29, 2022 .African countries’ efforts at restitution of artifacts from institutions in Europe are now blossoming with the return of pieces that once were thought unattainable. But many objects are still out of reach, and some officials worry they don’t even know the true extent of what was taken abroad. (Bernd Weissbrod/dpa via AP, File)

Africa sees some artifacts returned home but seeks far more

A view of a 2014 stone with runic inscription in memory of Danish 10th century King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, in Wolin, Poland, Saturday, July 30,2022. More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a Danish king whose nickname is known to the world through the Bluetooth technology is at the center of an archeological dispute. A Polish researcher and a Swedish archeologist claim that they have pinpointed the probable burial site for King Harald Bluetooth Gormsson in a small village in northwestern Poland, an area that once had ties with the Vikings. (AP Photo Monika Scislowska)

Is Danish king who gave name to Bluetooth buried in Poland?

The Mona Lisa hangs inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. The museum benefits from one of Paris’ best-kept secrets, an underground cooling system that’s helped the Louvre cope with the sweltering heat that has broken temperature records across Europe. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Why Louvre’s Mona Lisa keeps a smile: Paris’ cooling system

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Nigerian tourism and its Many Odds

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Benin artefacts: Group accuses Obaseki of stoking crisis with proposed EMOWAA

Prof Rasaq Ojo Bakare

Choosing Ekiti as venue of 2022 Mr and Miss Nigeria pageant will boost state economy, investments - Commissioner

Fish swim near some bleached coral at Kisite Mpunguti Marine park, Kenya, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Officials are meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, as part of the continent’s first ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the protection of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and many existing conservation areas in the region being of low quality. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Africa’s wildlife parks managers meet to boost conservation

Hon Ademola Ige, Special Adviser to Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State with delegates from the Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN)

Oyo partners with FTAN on tourism promotion, investment drive

Gabon’s Marauding Forest Elephants Test Public Patience with Green Agenda

Gabon's Marauding Forest Elephants Test Public Patience with Green Agenda