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Senate The Nigerian Senate has called on the Federal Government to fund the establishment of modern ranches nationwide, aimed at improving safety and economic productivity for both herders and local residents. The lawmakers also resolved to enact a law that will define the limits of economic activities under the ECOWAS treaty. The resolutions came during…

Russia's nuclear giant Rosatom is selling stakes in its uranium mining operations in Kazakhstan to Chinese companies, the main Kazakh uranium company said Tuesday, underscoring Beijing's growing clout in central Asia. "Kazatomprom announces the exit of its Russian partner from some joint ventures," said a statement from the world's largest uranium mining company, which mines…

An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy on Tuesday said it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 251 million euros ($263 million) for a data protection failure that saw users' accounts hacked. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) criticised Meta for a security flaw in its video upload function which hackers were able to exploit to…

A coalition of civil society groups, community leaders, and other citizens have called on President Bola Tinubu, to uphold the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission’s (NUPRC) decision and reject the request of Shell to divest its remaining shares in the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to the Renaissance consortium. The groups who staged a peaceful…

Ukraine said Tuesday it killed a senior Russian army official in Moscow using a bomb packed into a scooter outside an apartment block. General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian army's chemical weapons unit, is the highest-ranking victim of a string of assassinations during Moscow's offensive on its neighbour. Throughout the almost three-year conflict, Kyiv…