New research is turning a centuries-old hypothesis about Native Americans’ origins on its head. A team of geneticists and anthropologists published an article in Science on Tuesday that traces Native Americans to a single group that settled in what’s now America far later than what scientists previously thought.
The researchers looked at sequenced DNA from bones as well as the sequenced genomes of Native American volunteers with heritage from not only the Americas but also Siberia and Oceania, says according to Rasmus Nielsen, a computational geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the authors of the study. Read More...
The Olusegun Obasanjo-led Interfaith Initiatives for Peace has convened a meeting to discuss “pressing issues” in the country. Naija News reports that other leaders of the group include Sa’ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto; Abdulsalami Abubakar, former head of state, and John Onaiyekan, former Catholic archbishop of Abuja.
The meeting is scheduled to hold on June 10 at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja.
Issues to be discussed by the group include national unity, security, peace, integration, economic revitalisation, and development. Read More...
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October 22, 1951 12:00 AM GMT-5
In the town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin’s bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly “torn to pieces” by the crowd. Read More...