New Delhi, India | AFP | The Under-17 World Cup starting in India on Friday should feature only players born this century, but officials are taking no chances after defending champions Nigeria were caught in a major age-cheating scandal. All players at the competition, which has helped launch the careers of …
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VIDEO: NRM activists in Arua march for removal of age limit Kampala,Uganda | NTV UGANDA | A cross section of people from West Nile region yesterday matched on the streets of Arua town calling for the lifting of article 102b of the constitution to extend the age beyond 75 for a …
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Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Hundreds of young Nigerians marched on the country’s parliament on Tuesday, calling for lawmakers to remove age barriers on political posts, including the presidency. Nigeria’s 1999 constitution stipulates that the president has to be at least 40, while senators and state governors have to be …
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VIDEO: Museveni distances himself from Uganda president age limit debate Kampala, Uganda | NBS TV | President Yoweri Museveni has distanced himself from the ongoing age limit discussion – dismissing the debate as diversionary. Museveni told the press at State House in Entebbe on Wednesday that he is not behind …
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Kampala, Uganda|Godfrey Ssali| Arua Municipality Member of Parliament Col. Ibrahim Abiriga has scoffed at members of the opposition and a section of members of the public that are criticizing him on social media over his stand on lifting the presidential age limit. Abiriga revealed that he is receiving threatening messages …
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Verbania, Italy | AFP | As a young woman in the roaring 1920s, the world’s oldest living person loved to go singing and dancing. Now 116-year-old Italian Emma Morano’s next challenge is to see in the 2020s and become the oldest human being on record. The last known surviving child …
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She is the last known person in the world born in the 19th century. She was a teenager during World War I and her life spans three centuries. World’s oldest person dies in New York City, aged 116 https://t.co/L3dDLYSYEQ pic.twitter.com/QMNXdCur3A — BigFurHat (@BigFurHat) May 13, 2016 New York, United States …
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By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi & Mubatsi Asinja Habati With the average age of the top ministers at 70 years, what is the future for the country? When then 38-year old Moses Ali was in 1977 named finance minister by then-president Idi Amin and charged with revamping a free-falling economy, current …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
