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Pleas for scrutiny of system fraught with accusations of negligence after one-year-old’s death in hospitalNigerians have called for urgent reforms to the healthcare sector after the death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21-month-old son prompted an outpouring of grief and accounts of negligence and inadequate care.In a leaked WhatsApp message, the bestselling author said she had been told by a doctor that the resident anaesthesiologist at the Lagos hospital treating her son Nkanu Nnamdi had administered an overdose of the sedative propofol. Continue reading...

An appetite for self-destruction left Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies hugely influential but financially insecure. They’re back with a big show and their first album together since 1995‘There isn’t one songwriter, and so the flavour of the band is always going to change,” says Dave Vanian, reflecting on 50 years of the group of which he has been the sole constant member, the Damned. “Captain Sensible is a great fan of syrupy pop music and prog and glam rock. So his writing is very poppy, melodic and quite wonderful. My writing is more melodramatic, more theatrical. And Rat Scabies was a mod who really loved bands like the Who. That melting pot would either not work at all, or be an absolute firecracker.” As the history of the Damned attests, it has, on occasion, been both.There have been three break-ups: in the late 70s, late 80s and early 90s; Sensible and Scabies have had repeated spells out of the band; Scabies only started working with them again in 2022, after 27 years away. “The rift was really between him and Captain,” says Vanian, though at one time or another, it seems as though each of the three principals has been in a relationship-ending rage with one or both of the others. Continue reading...

82% des jeunes de moins de 35 ans ont un emprunt à rembourser ou un loyer qu’ils auraient du mal à payer tous les mois sans renoncer à d’autres choses, selon un sondage Odoxa pour Nexity. Aux élections municipales, plus de six jeunes sur dix disent qu’ils préfèreront voter pour celle ou celui qui proposera des mesures pour faciliter l’accès au logement, quelle que soit son étiquette.

Une analyse des opérations de ICE montre une augmentation marquée des arrestations depuis l’arrivée de Trump au pouvoir.

Il est pertinent de se demander pourquoi Israël et les États-Unis s’intéressent au sort des Iraniens.