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In Trentino sono 10 le spiagge da Bandiera blu
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In Molise solo a Campomarino-lido è stata assegnata la Bandiera Blu
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07 May, 2021
Queen Idia Ivory Mask, perhaps the greatest of all Benin’s treasures, is now in the British Museum
• FURTHER to Dan Carrier’s review of Barnaby Phillips’s book ‘
Loot, Britain and the Benin Bronzes‘
(Alloy steal, April 29), in 1978 I saw Nigeria from end to end, having been offered a rare visa to photograph the results of the oil boom.
The Biafran War was a recent memory so there was paranoia about a white man with cameras, and my minder often had to explain me to soldiers and police, flourishing his letter from the ministry.
The Guardian and other papers and magazines used the photos for years, no other photographer having got in; the portrait of Fela Kuti at home in Lagos with most of his 27 wives has been printed countless times.
Quella rissa con coltellate a Caldonazzo: coinvolti otto ragazzi del paese
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So, the other day, a young brother of mine posted an aerial picture on his Facebook page of the NECOM Building (or NET Building), with the caption ‘the tallest building in Nigeria’. As I admired the aerial view, I was taken aback. What?!! NET Building is STILL the tallest in Nigeria? This could be the perfect metaphor confirming that Nigeria is not improving, has become ambitionless, has stopped growing, literally, since NET building was completed in 1979.
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Now, Nigeria External Telecommunications (NET) Building as it was first known – before the rechristening to whatever name it bears today – was then an iconic building and a symbol of our progress, ambition, independence, creativity, modernity, and quest for achievement back in the late 70s. I recall as a 12 years old kid in 1983 when we learnt that the building was torched allegedly by people who had embezzled money and needed to obliterate their tracks, I felt personally angry and defrauded as I read the st