The World Food Programme (WFP) said the funds were needed to sustain life-saving aid for the next six months
The lifeline is to aid three million people in Kano, Abuja and Lagos in addition to the Federal Government’s social protection schemes.
The Guardian
The top US military officer says he was wrong to have joined President Donald Trump during his controversial walk to a damaged church near the White House.
The 1 June event created "a perception of the military involved in domestic politics", Gen Mark Milley said.
Mr Trump walked to the church and held up a Bible after a peaceful protest at the death of African American George Floyd was forcibly dispersed.
The use of troops to tackle the protests has provoked fierce US debate.
Mr Trump has regularly referred to "law and order", calling in the National Guard to the US capital, vowing to deploy the military to other cities and condemning violent protests.
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Nigerian prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a 15-year-old girl detained after killing a man who had attempted to rape her.
Police said she stabbed the man, a friend of her father's, in March when she had gone to his house to do chores.
But state prosecutors in the commercial capital, Lagos, say there is no evidence to support a murder charge.
At the time of her arrest, there was an outcry on social media by people saying she had acted in self-defence.
The teenager has been freed at a time of public protests over a wave of rapes and killing of women in Nigeria.
Thousands have recently signed a petition calling for an end to sexual violence.
Many Nigerians say the country's legal system makes it hard to convict suspected rapists and blames women when they are victims of sexual assault.
BBC
More must be done to tackle racial discrimination in the UK's armed forces, the most senior military officer has said.
General Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, called on all personnel to see the potential in every recruit and "refuse to allow intolerance".
The message comes after a meeting of the heads of the services on Wednesday.
There had been "soul searching" about events highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, a defence source said.
BBC
Stormzy has pledged £10 million to UK organisations, charities and movements tackling racial inequality, justice reform and black empowerment.
The grime star said he will make his donation over the next 10 years.
"We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born," he said.
He has also funded black British students at Cambridge University.
Stormzy said he was making his £10m donation to fight racial inequality because "the uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit, is that black people in the UK have been at a constant disadvantage in every aspect of life - simply due to the colour of our skin.
"I'm lucky enough to be in the position I'm in and I've heard people often dismiss the idea of racism existing in Britain by saying 'If the country's so racist how have you become a success?!' and I reject that with this: I am not the UK's shining example of what supposedly happens when a black person works hard.
"There are millions of us. We are not far and few. We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born.
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Chimamanda adichie, a renowned novelist, has lost her father, Professor James Nwoye Adichie, aged 88 years old.
Confirming the news, a family source stated that Adichie died on Wednesday night.
The erudite scholar was admitted at the Chira Memorial Hospital in Awkuzu, Oyi local government area of Enugu State.
The Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) hailed from Abba, Njikoka local government area of Anambra State.
The first Nigerian Professor of Statistics celebrated his 88th birthday on March 1.
Adichie was a member of International Statistical Institute (ISI) since 1978 and member, Governing Council of (ISI) 1985-1987.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called President Trump's Tweet promoting conspiracy theories about an elderly protester who was hospitalized after being shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo "reprehensible."
"President Trump did a tweet today that surprises me — even after all the tweets that he has done," Cuomo said at his daily press briefing. The governor said he was shocked and disgusted by the president's suggestion that the 75-year-old man is an "ANTIFA provocateur" and may have been trying to "set up" law enforcement.
Video of the incident shows the man, Martin Gugino, being pushed backwards and falling to the ground, bleeding from the head as numerous police officers walk past him. Two Buffalo police officers were charged with second-degree assault following the incident, and have pleaded not guilty.
Speaking about the president's tweet, Cuomo said, "It's all made up, it's all fabricated, there's no fact to any of it," calling it a "reprehensible, dumb comment."
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