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1 Feb
Afghanistan's Taliban government took over management of Kabul's famed Serena hotel on Saturday, a hotel statement said, a luxury property targeted by Taliban attacks during their insurgency. The Kabul Serena Hotel was run for nearly 20 years by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development in the Afghan capital and was popular with business travellers…
1 Feb
India's finance minister unveiled broad income tax cuts on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government looks to bolster consumption and perk up a slowing economy. The world's most populous country is forecast to expand at its slowest pace since the Covid pandemic in the current fiscal year, after growing at more than eight percent…
1 Feb
Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village home to members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor said on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday's attack killed "10 citizens in Arzah village in the northern Hama countryside, which is inhabited by citizens…
1 Feb
Burundi's president has warned the escalating conflict in eastern DR Congo could spark a regional war. The Rwanda-backed M23 group has wrested control of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and is pushing southwards. The offensive is the latest to scar a region where an estimated six million people have died…
1 Feb
FBI agents who participated in the investigations that led to now-abandoned criminal charges against President Donald Trump are expected to be fired in a sweeping purge of the top US law enforcement organization, US media reported Friday. Dozens of FBI agents involved in the probe of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January…
29 Jan
US President Donald Trump will take a victory lap Wednesday as he signs a bill cracking down on migrant criminal suspects -- his first piece of legislation since he returned to power vowing a blitz on illegal immigration. The ceremony at the White House comes as Trump faces pushback over his broader plans to overhaul…
26 Jan
Donald Trump has shaken up America and the world in an extraordinary first week back in the White House that saw him remake the US political universe in his own image. On his first day, Trump signed more executive orders than any president in history, consolidating his power over every lever of the US government.…
24 Jan
US President Donald Trump made his first trip Friday since returning to power, heading to fire-scorched California and hurricane-hit North Carolina as a row blazed over disaster funding. The visit came as the White House said that deportation flights on military aircraft had begun, launching Trump's promised operation to expel "millions" of undocumented migrants. On…
23 Jan
Congolese helicopter gunships swooped low over the plains to fire volleys of rockets and troops trucked towards the front line to halt Rwanda-backed fighters advancing on DR Congo's eastern provincial capital after capturing a string of towns. The Mi-24s -- rarely used because of the M23 and Rwanda anti-aircraft defences -- fly low over the…
23 Jan
A judge on Thursday jailed for life a British teenager who killed three young girls in a frenzied stabbing spree, as the families wept in court at horrific details of the "extreme violence" he inflicted on them.Sentencing violence-obsessed Axel Rudakubana to 13 life terms for the three murders and 10 attempted murders, judge Julian Goose…
22 Jan
Russia said Wednesday it had taken control of a village in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, a westward push that is piling additional pressure on Ukrainian forces across the sprawling front line. The defence ministry said in a statement that its forces had taken the village of Zapadne on the western bank of the Oskil River,…
22 Jan
US President Donald Trump ordered federal employees of diversity offices to be put on paid leave by Wednesday night, and called a Washington bishop "nasty" after she asked him to "have mercy" for migrants and LGBTQ children. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that US government workers in diversity offices must be put on…
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Rancourous debates have trailed Ramadan ‘holidays’ imposed on public and private schools in some northern states, technically shutting out over 11.5 million pupils from the national school calendar yesterday.
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Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, South-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings
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There is ample evidence that the sharp drop of about 50 per cent in the volume of cattle trade between the North and South of Nigeria is causing phenomenal dislocation not just in the economy, but also in the health of citizens resulting from inadequate consumption of meat.
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The Kano State government, at the weekend, kicked off the yearly free Ramadan feeding programme to offer relief to the less privileged in the society. The initiative is to provide meals to over 8,000 residents daily during the breaking of the fast across 91 designated
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Selling prices by the private sector slowed to a seven-month low in February, the latest Stanbic IBTC Bank Nigeria’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released yesterday, said. A drop in selling prices is an indication of an easing in the inflation rate.
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President, Society for Nigerian Broadcasters and Vice Chancellor, Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, Prof. Umaru Pate, has observed current trends are uncertain and changing, nationally and globally, hence the need to rethink operational models.
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In what appears as retaliation against initial price reduction by Dangote Refinery, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), yesterday, slashed the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, from N945 per litre to N860 per litre in Lagos and N865 in Abuja.
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The 19 northern states chapter, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has implored the state governors, who ordered the closure of schools during the Ramadan fast to reverse the decision.
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Change is never easy, but it is often necessary. In 2024, Nigeria witnessed a series of reforms that underscored the power of determined and purposeful leadership. Dr. Zacch Adedeji, Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS),
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