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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday in Abuja, said the issues affecting one African country also affect others, especially security. He also said there can be no development without peace as the two complement each other. According to a statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari spoke at State House, Abuja, while granting audience to the Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development, Dr Sid Ould Tah. The statement is titled ‘The nexus between peace and development by President Buhari as he receives DG Arab Bank for economic…

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is currently meeting with the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the State House, Abuja. This is Emefiele’s second meeting with the President since he “secretly” returned to the country on January 12, 2022. Earlier on Thursday, the embattled CBN chief was part of a delegation of the Arab Bank for Economic Development led by its Director General, Dr Sidi Ould Tah. Emefiele had left the country following the investigation of several allegations against him, including corruption and terrorism financing. Weeks earlier, the DSS had sought a court order to arrest him. But…

Jewellery owned or worn by the late Princess Diana very rarely comes on to the market, especially a piece such as the Attallah Cross American reality television star and social media colossus Kim Kardashian has purchased the Attallah Cross, the amethyst and diamond pendant famously worn on several occasions by Princess Diana, according to the auction house Sotheby’s. The piece, made in the 1920s by the British jeweler Garrard, sold for 163,800 pounds ($202,300) during the auction house’s “Royal and Noble” sale in London on Wednesday. The pendant — which Diana notably wore to a 1987 charity gala — fetched…

FEC also okayed N1.35bn for the procurement of 31 vehicles for the Ministry of Environment. Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) rose from its first meeting in the year 2023 on Wednesday and approved the proposal by the Ministry of Works and Housing for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC) and its subsidiaries to invest the sum of N1.9 trillion for the reconstruction of 44 selected federal roads across the country. The Council chaired by Vice President, Yemi- Osinbajo, who stood in for President Muhammadu Buhari who was away in Nouakchott, Mauritania to attend an African Peace Conference also okayed…

The blue check mark – previously free for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and other public figures – will now be open to anyone prepared to pay. Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would price Twitter Blue subscription for Android at $11 per month – the same as for iOS subscribers – while offering a cheaper annual plan for web users when compared to monthly charges. The blue check mark – previously free for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists, and other public figures – will now be open to anyone prepared to pay. It was rolled…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a global figurehead of progressive politics, shocked the country Thursday by announcing she would resign from office in a matter of weeks. The 42-year-old – who steered the country through natural disasters, the Covid pandemic, and its worst-ever terror attack – said she no longer had “enough in the tank”. “I am human. We give as much as we can for as long as possible, and then it’s time. And for me, it’s time,” she said at a meeting of members of her Labour Party. Ardern said she would step down no later than…

A yet-to-be-identified car dealer was stabbed to death by some hoodlums along Ordinance Road, Trans-Amadi in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. An eyewitness told our correspondent that the deceased was driving a Toyota Metrix car when four armed men in a vehicle overtook his vehicle and forced him to a stop. Alighting from his vehicle, the attackers asked the deceased for his car key which he refused to surrender to them. Suspecting that the hoodlums maybe after his car, he threw the keys inside the automobile instead and grabbed one of the assailants. “Last night at about 9 pm, a…

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, has decried the rampant cases of sudden deaths among civil servants in the country. Yemi-Esan, who stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the newly established Employee Wellness Centre for civil servants, said many civil servants suddenly die as a result of work-related diseases that are even preventable. She said, “We are witnessing a lot of work-related diseases, a lot of sudden deaths. “You are sitting down in the office and then, the Director of Human Resources comes and says, mama, somebody has just collapsed in…

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, on Tuesday, admitted that although the projected global economic recession for 2023 appeared inevitable, with about $34 billion in the nation’s foreign reserves, the projected headwinds shouldn’t pose much threat to Nigeria. The comment by the minister came on the same day that the Senate directed her to liaise with the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and submit details of President Muhammadu Buhari’s N23. 7 trillion Ways and Means request, within three days, for scrutiny. Speaking during an interview with Arise News Channel at…

Ukraine had received many messages of sympathy from around the world in the wake of Saturday’s attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday condemned Russian people’s “cowardly silence” as the toll for the missile strike on a tower block in the eastern city of Dnipro reached 30. Zelensky noted in his evening address that Ukraine had received many messages of sympathy from around the world in the wake of Saturday’s attack. Switching to Russian, he said he wanted to address those Russians “who even now could not utter a few words of condemnation of this terror… “Your cowardly silence, your…