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15 Feb
The Co-Founder/Managing Director of Alitheia Capital, Tokunboh Ishmael, has said gender-inclusive investment could boost Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 13 per cent, adding that women-led businesses in Africa are facing a $42 billion financing gap, a shortfall that could limit the continent’s economic potential.

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Kogi Head of Service (HOS), Dr Elijah Evinemi, has expressed deep sadness over the death of a former Deputy Gov. of the state, Mr Patrick Adaba. This is contained in a statement signed by Evinemi on Tuesday in Lokoja. Evinemi described the deceased as a distinguished statesman and an icon whose contributions to National and…
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French President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday to address a meeting of military chiefs from 30 European and NATO countries willing to contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine after any negotiated truce with Russia. Macron, who has sought to rally a European response to Washington's shock policy shift in US-Russia relations, has said Tuesday's meeting…
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Net suffers have expressed concern over sharp decline in web browsing occasioned by the telecom tariff hikes in the country. The users including students, traders and business operators, who spoke in Bauchi and Gombe, decried frequent call drops, poor connectivity and low data speed since the introduction of the new telecom tarrifs. They said the…
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The House of Representatives has decried the spate of killings, kidnappings, and other forms of violent crimes in Esan North East and Esan South East Federal Constituency of Edo State. Adopting a motion under matters of urgent national importance sponsored by Prince Henry Odianosen Okojie at the plenary Tuesday presided over by Speaker Tajudeen Abass,…
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Ugandan special forces have been deployed to South Sudan's capital, the Ugandan army chief said Tuesday, after rising tensions that have threatened a fragile peace agreement. Impoverished South Sudan has long been plagued by political instability and insecurity, but concerns have risen sharply in the past week after clashes between forces allied to the country's…
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Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have again kidnapped no fewer than nine surveyors in Ondo State. The surveyors were abducted by armed gunmen who were lurking in the bush while on site at Ilu-Abo axis in Akure North Local Council Area of the state. According to the source, the kidnappers made contacts with some families…
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The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has said it has disbursed over N941million to about 7,000 students of the University of Jos (UNIJOS). This, it said, has made the university the third-highest institution in the country that has received the facility. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the fund, Akintunde Sawyerr, stated this on…
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Russia's army said Tuesday it had retaken 12 settlements from Ukraine in the western Kursk region, where Moscow has launched a rapid counteroffensive to take back land seized by Kyiv last year. Ukraine has been losing ground in the Russian border region -- swathes of which it has held since August 2024 and which it…
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Tech billionaire and senior White House advisor Elon Musk called Senator Mark Kelly a "traitor" on Monday after he visited Ukraine and said it was important that Americans stand with the war-torn country. Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and US Navy pilot, visited Ukraine—which has been battling a Russian invasion for more than three years—over…
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Hundreds of elderly men and women of the Emu Ebendo community, along the Kwale/Ughelli Expressway, Ndokwa West council of Delta State took to the streets, protesting against what they called "forceful entry of Axxella company onto their ancestral land." Although the protest was peaceful, the activities of the protesters paralysed businesses for a while as…