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It has turned out so far, to be the only centenary conference marking the passage of Vladimir Lenin, the first person to lead a socialist revolution. The other activity was in Moscow where flowers were laid in his mausoleum. In Abuja, Nigeria, over 300 of us from Nigeria, United States, Cuba, Ghana, South Africa, Venezuela, Palestine, Russia and United Kingdom met physically for two days from January 22-23, 2024 to mark the January 21, 1924 exit of Lenin. We were joined virtually by people from various countries, especially in Europe.
Ahead of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing in The Hague, Palestinian ambassador to Nigeria Abdullah Abu Shawesh said in a telephone interview on a January 9, 2024 program on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar), that Israel is spreading lies about the atrocities committed on October 7. He continued to suggest that the Israelis have stolen 150 corpses of Palestinian