President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Friday met with the leadership of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as consultation continues on the zoning of the leadership position of the 10th National Assembly.The meeting which had in attendance the National Chairman of APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu,
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Following the successful arrival of the first and second batch of stranded citizens, the Federal Government has sent more aircrafts to airlift more Nigerian nationals from Aswan in Egypt and Port Sudan back home.This is according to a communique by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).Giving further update on the
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Agency ReportsFormer Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice, have been jailed for plotting to traffic a young man to the UK to harvest his organ for their sick daughter in a legal first.Following a landmark modern slavery case, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56,
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AFPMicrosoft on Thursday expanded public access to its generative artificial intelligence programs, despite fears that tech firms are rushing ahead too quickly with potentially dangerous technology.The AI-enhanced features of the company's Bing search engine and Edge internet browser are now open for anyone to use, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president,
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Agency ReportsUS senators announced a major cross-party effort Wednesday to combat China's growing global influence by limiting the flow of investment and state-of-the-art technology to the Asian giant while deterring any potential threat to Taiwan.The push comes after President Joe Biden signed a package last year aimed at boosting competition
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AFPBritain's first coronation in 70 years takes place on Saturday, with Charles III crowned king in an elaborate Christian ceremony steeped in solemn ritual and more than a millennium of history.The coronation, the first of a British king since 1937, is the religious confirmation of his accession after the death
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The suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, who was recently arrested by the police, had been granted administrative bail by the police.A report by Newspaper, quoting top sources, also indicated that two of the National Commissioners and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} arrested in
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Thyroid disease frequently goes undiagnosed (and undertreated). Hypertension often has no symptoms. Diabetes gets a foothold long before your blood sugar levels reveal anything amiss. Narrowing arteries — a process called atherosclerosis — may not announce itself either. But they all have something in common (which itself also lacks “red
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AFPRussian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Friday threatened to pull his frontline fighters from Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine next week because of ammunition shortages, berating army chiefs in a grisly video.Prigozhin's Wagner group has spearheaded the grinding, months-long Russian assault on Bakhmut, almost capturing the city in the longest and
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Recently, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board disowned the $15billion memorandum of understanding (MoU) reached between the commission’s management and a United States based outfit for the construction of a coastal railway line.Chairman of the NDDC governing board, Ms Lauretta Onochie in a terse statement described the MoU as
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