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In tonight's edition: University lecturers in Nigeria refuse to go back to class, after they were ordered to by court order. Disputes over pay are common in the country. Zimbabwe is battling with a measles outbreak, over 700 children have died in recent months because of low vaccination rates. And Zimbabwe has had a rocky relationship with the UK but with King Charles now on the throne, some hope the country may soon be allowed back into the Commonwealth of Nations.
Last week, Poland's constitutional court ruled that Polish laws have supremacy over those of the EU in areas where they clash. There are concerns that the country could now effectively could be forced into a "Polexit" out of the EU as it is no longer playing by the bloc's rules. On Sunday, large demonstrations in support of Polish EU membership took place across Poland and abroad, a sign of Poles' enthusiasm for the European project. We spoke to Laurent Pech, head of the law and politics department at Middlesex University in London. He called last week's bombshell court decision "a nuclear strike on the EU legal order".
The ruling that Polish law has supremacy over the EU's sent shockwaves across Europe. But what will it mean for EU-Poland relations?
A Nigerian union has defied a court ban to launch a general strike in protest at a planned hefty increase in fuel prices, though many businesses and government offices opened as normal. Laura Frykberg reports
The tuition of Nigeria federal universities has been reviewed with an increase of over 300%, both for undergraduate and new students. Against the backdrop of Nigeria's cost-of-living crisis, students at the University of Lagos staged many demonstrations to demand the withdrawal of a major increase in compulsory fees for new students and students already enrolled on undergraduate courses. Our team in Lagos spoke to students and officials at the university.
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