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…Insists Lekki toll-gate shooting not military’s handiwork Nigeria’s military on Thursday denied reports of a forced abortion campaign involving at least 10,000 pregnancies of women and girls in the country’s North-East region. “It’s outright nonsense…it’s not true,” the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, said at the 61st session of the State House Ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential …

Edo State Government’s sustained investment in technical and vocational education will facilitate industrial growth and economic development in the state, Governor Godwin Obaseki said on Wednesday. Obaseki said this when he received members and representatives of the World Bank and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who were on a courtesy visit at the Government House, Benin City. The governor, while …

ATLANTA— Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s current term and capping an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year. With Warnock’s second runoff victory in as many years, Democrats will have …

The ICPC says the investigation of D’banj will be all-encompassing and that his alleged collaborators are being probed as well. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) confirmed on Wednesday the arrest and detention of Oladipo Daniel Oyebanjo, otherwise known by his stage name, D’Banj, over the investigation of fraud associated with the N-Power Programme. The confirmation by …

The Nigerian Air Force has continued its bombardment on identified bandit camps in Kaduna State. A statement on Wednesday by the State Commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Samuel Aruwan said, “The Nigerian Air Force has continued with assaults on identified bandit camps and enclaves around Kaduna State. “Feedback to the Kaduna State Government revealed that a camp in …

Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as “the spirit of Ukraine” as its 2022 person of the year on Wednesday, for the resistance the country has shown in the face of Russia’s invasion. Calling Zelensky’s decision to remain in Kyiv and rally his country amid the ongoing war “fateful,” Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said this year’s decision was …

*The CBN directs that only N200 and lower denominations should be loaded into banks’ ATM machines. *Customers should be encouraged to use alternative channels (internet banking, mobile banking apps, USSD, cards/POS. eNaira, etc.) to conduct their banking transactions. The Central Bank of Nigeria has put a limit on cash withdrawal made by individuals and organisations with effect from January 9, 2023. In …

Mobile money operators and the organised banks’ customers have expressed their opposition to the new Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, regulations on withdrawals, saying the Bank wants to send them out of business. The apex bank had restricted cash withdrawals from over-the-counter, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to N100,000 and N500,000 per week for individuals and corporate organisations, respectively. CBN disclosed …

…calls on Police to invite APC leaders for questioning Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie has accused opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) of resorting to arson as a campaign tool ahead of the 2023 general elections. Osagie raised the alarm over the recent fire incidents in public places in the state, especially markets, in …

*VP meets entrepreneurs in agri-business, tech & innovation, commerce & industry *Visits Hanoi-based Academy of Agric Sciences, Software Company Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), spent the second day of his official visit to Vietnam asserting the view that for foreign investors and businesses looking at Africa, Nigeria is the straightforward choice in the continent. According to him, despite global …