Bloomberg’s Pamela Hutchinson sits down with Richard Chapman-Harris, Mott MacDonald’s Head of Inclusion and Responsibility; James Currell, Viacom International Media Networks’ President of Northern and Eastern Europe; and Sandra Kerr, Business in the Community’s Race Equality Director, for a conversation on the benefits of transparency and how this can help to further eliminate pay disparities across business sectors.

Again, Senate reworks, passes three Bills rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a second term. As the Nigerian leader begins work on the next four years of his administration, here are a few things Nigerians would love to see between now and 2023.

Restrictions on religion are on the rise, not just under authoritarian regimes but also in European democracies, according to the US Pew center. It found Christians are harassed in 143 countries, and Muslims in 140.

The theme for The Blonds latest runway show was appropriate, considering that it was held on a Sunday. Designers David and Phillipe Blond created a spectacle around the idea of fashion as religion.

India has extended its national lockdown until the end of May, and while it has had more confirmed cases of Covid-19 than China it’s had fewer deaths. The lockdown was extended following clashes between citizens and police. According to the Hindu, some rules will be relaxed with transport, hairdressers and online shopping deliveries resuming. The Hindu’s editors, however, are calling for vigilance as they say the death toll is likely to rise in the coming weeks.

Here are a few reasons to pick up a copy of The Guardian on Thursday. Find these stories and much more when you grab a copy of The Guardian on Thursday.⁣⁣

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warns protesters over unrest

What have diplomacy, faith, and gender got to do with each other? That's the subject of a conference held by the world’s biggest interreligious non-governmental organization, Religions for Peace, in Lindau, Germany.

Recent surveys indicate strongly that across the Middle East and Iran, almost half the population is loosening their ties to Islam. Governments have reacted differently to calls for reforms of institutional religion.

President Muhammadu Buhari says ethnicity and religion are not to blame for Nigeria’s problems but the people.

Iran is home to a colourful array of ethnicities: Persians, Arabs, Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis, Lurs and a group that's less talked about: the Black African community. While we have no verified figures, according to some reports, there are more than tens of thousands of Black Iranians living in a number of cities. To talk more about the Iranian-African community both in and out of the country, we speak to Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, one of the founders of the Collective for Black Iranians.