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Nigeria’s Natural History Museum Holds Rare Collection of West African Artifacts

Skulls of mammals are seen on display at the A.G Leventis Museum of Natural History at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria July 7, 2022. (Reuters)
Skulls of mammals are seen on display at the A.G Leventis Museum of Natural History at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria July 7, 2022. (Reuters)
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Nigeria’s Natural History Museum Holds Rare Collection of West African Artifacts

Skulls of mammals are seen on display at the A.G Leventis Museum of Natural History at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria July 7, 2022. (Reuters)
Skulls of mammals are seen on display at the A.G Leventis Museum of Natural History at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria July 7, 2022. (Reuters)

In southwest Nigeria, West Africa's only natural history museum serves as a world class facility for conservation of natural resources.

Built in 1973 as part of the zoology department at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria's Natural History Museum was left abandoned for over 30 years before it was renovated and reopened in 2011.

Fashioned after the British Museum and the Smithsonian, it has thousands of specimens including plants, archaeological artifacts and animal skins and skulls from around Nigeria.

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Hurricane Oscar Brushes Past Turks, Caicos and Heads Toward Cuba

This satellite image provided by NOAA on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 shows Hurricane Oscar. (NOAA via AP)
This satellite image provided by NOAA on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 shows Hurricane Oscar. (NOAA via AP)
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Hurricane Oscar Brushes Past Turks, Caicos and Heads Toward Cuba

This satellite image provided by NOAA on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 shows Hurricane Oscar. (NOAA via AP)
This satellite image provided by NOAA on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 shows Hurricane Oscar. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Oscar formed Saturday off the coast of the Bahamas and brushed past the Turks and Caicos islands to the south during the night.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami characterized the storm as “tiny,” but hurricane warnings were in place for Turks and Caicos, the southeastern Bahamas and the north coast of Cuba in Holguin and Guantanamo provinces. Multiple inches (centimeters) of rain were forecast for those places, The AP reported.

The storm’s maximum sustained winds were clocked at 85 mph (140 kph) with higher gusts. Its center was located about 70 miles (115 kilometers) West of Grand Turk Island, and it was heading west and expected to reach eastern Cuba Sunday night.

According to its forecast path as of Saturday night, it is then expected to do a near U-turn and northeast toward the Bahamas.

Philippe Papin of the National Hurricane Center said it was somewhat unexpected that Oscar became a hurricane Saturday.

“Unfortunately the system kind of snuck up a little bit on us,” Papin said.

Hours earlier, Tropical Storm Nadine formed off Mexico's southern Caribbean coast, bringing heavy rain and tropical storm conditions to parts of Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula. It moved inland across Belize and degenerated into a tropical depression.