US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Angola next week to highlight the US-Africa partnership, the State Department said Thursday."Throughout the trip, the Secretary will highlight how the United States has accelerated the U.S.-Africa partnership since the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, including in areas
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President Bola Tinubu has met with members of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.This comes barely 24 hours after the council withdrew their support for the president.They announced at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday that they have become disillusioned with
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The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ola Olukoyede, has said some of the investigators are in the habit of demanding bribes from crime suspects, thus eroding the integrity of the agency.Olukoyode warned the erring anti-graft agency’s investigators that they would be dealt with if they failed to retrace
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The Nigerian Super Eagles has defeated the host Cote d’Ivoire team in the ongoing AFCON competition.The match’s key moment came in the 55th minute after Ousmane Diomande caught Victor Osimhen in the box.That allowed William Troost-Ekong to blast home from the penalty spot.Roared on by a raucous crowd, the Ivorians
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The families of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip staged a protest Thursday in Tel Aviv to pressure the government to reach a hostage deal.Dozens of families closed the Ayalon North Highway to pressure the government into approving a deal with the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, for their return.Protesters
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The Nigerian Army said troops of the 6th Division burst a carefully concealed illegal oil bunkering site in Umuedeokwara Community, Odogwa Town, in the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.The Acting Deputy Director of 6th Division Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, stated this in a statement
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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has described as false a report that police has rescued a man abducted in Abuja and has also arrested the kidnapper.Report has it that police on Thursday, January 18, rescued an Abuja resident, Segun Akinyemi who was kidnapped while driving out of his
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The operatives of the Nigerian Police have arrested the former chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, in Cross River State, Goddie Akpama, for demanding the suspension and arrest of Bello Metawalle, the Minister of Defence.Akpama was whisked away at 5 p.m. on Thursday at Chibese Restaurant Calabar, the venue
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The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday faulted plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to relocate major departments from the Abuja headquarters to the former headquarters in Lagos.The NEF recognizes the importance of the departments in question, including Banking Supervision (DBS), Other Financial Institutions Supervision (OFISD), Consumer Protection Department
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Fresh troubles appear to be in the offing for former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele, as the Federal Government again amended the charges against him on offences allegedly committed while in office.The initial charges have been increased from six to 20, bordering on forgery,
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