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Registration turnout compels deployment of 209 machines __INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it was compelled by the last minute turnout of citizens seeking to participate in the upcoming elections to deploy additional registration machines across three zones of the country for the Continuous Voter Registration. National…
IATA predicts 116% passenger growth in African aviation
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has predicted more than double the number of passengers flying African airlines in the year following liberalization of movements after travel restrictions imposed in response the covid-19 pandemic. The body stated that African airlines…
Russia unleashes deadlier weapons against Ukraine
Ukrainian and British officials warned Saturday that Russian forces are relying on weapons able to cause mass casualties as they try to make headway in capturing eastern Ukraine and fierce, prolonged fighting depletes resources on both sides. Russian bombers have…
Russia sets up company to sell Ukraine’s grain
Russian-installed officials in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region have set up a company to buy up local grain and resell it on Moscow’s behalf, a local representative told the Interfax news agency on Saturday. Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of Zaporizhzhia’s pro-Russian…
Man seeks divorce after learning he isn’t father to 3 daughters
After a paternity test revealed that all three of his daughters were not his biological children, a 45-year-old Chinese man is seeking a divorce from his wife of 16 years. South China Morning Post reported that the man, surnamed Chen…
Onyeama demands pan-African collaboration against insecurity, maritime threat
Nigerian has called for urgent action to end terrorism, piracy and trafficking along the African Atlantic coast. Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, made the call while stating Nigeria’s position at the First Ministerial Conference of African Atlantic States in Rabat,…
Nigeria’s public debt crosses $100 bn mark
Nigeria’s total debt stock has at the end of first quarter of 2022 reached N41.60 trillion and crossed the $100 billion mark. The Debt Management Office (DMO) declared that the country’s debt recorded a quarterly increase of N2.04 trillion. The…
Access Bank stakes $37m in Kenyan Bank
Nigerian commercial bank, Access Bank Plc, is working out transactions that would confer it with controlling stakes in smaller commercial bank operating in Kenya, the Sidian Bank. Access Bank is buying the stake off an investment group, Centum Investments Plc,…
Heirs Holdings, ND Western stand out as Shell closes bid on JV stake
Two indigenous oil companies are expected to proceed with efforts to buy up the 45 percent stake in the oil and gas assets operated by Shell under a joint venture agreement with government and two other companies. The Oracle Today…
Ukraine War: 1.6 bn people plunged into food crisis
Some 1.6 billion people or 20 percent of the world’s 8.0 billion population are severely impacted by the fallouts of the ongoing war ignited by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Out of the number, about 1.2 billion people around the globe…
