Month: June 2022

UK To Fly 1st Planeload of 31 Illegal Immigrants to Rwanda Tuesday

ADEOLA YUSUF

“Partnership (with Rwanda) will help break the business model of these ruthless criminals,’ Johnson tweeted as Prince Charles lampoons plan to send illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, others to Rwanda: Report Britain’s Prince Charles has called the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda appalling,’ a report said Saturday after it cleared a legal challenge. The UK government intends to fly the first planeload of 31 claimants to Rwanda on Tuesday – shortly before Charles is due to represent his mother Queen Elizabeth II at a Commonwealth summit in…

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Nigeria Records 10 Fresh Monkeypox Cases, Suspected Cases Hit 110 – NCDC

ADEOLA YUSUF

“From January 1 to 5 June, 2022, there have been 110 suspected cases in total and 31 confirmed cases from 12 states.”   The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC ) has recorded 10 additional Monkeypox cases in the last seven days in the country. The NCDC disclosed this via it’s official website, in its latest monkeypox situation report released on Friday. READ ALSO: Don’t Eat Bush Meat, Govt Begs Nigerians As MonkeyPox Kills One, Infects 21 US Denies Existence of Monkeypox-Spreading Secret Biolabs In Nigeria Confusion, Fears Trail Report…

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Stop Generating Political Megawatt, Consumers to Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, Others

ADEOLA YUSUF

Millions of electricity consumers in Nigeria have declared that they were tired of political megawatts that have, in the past, been generated by politicians, tasking the presidential candidates of all the major political parties to desist from it. Rising under the auspices of the Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, the consumers specifically mentioned the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; candidate of the NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso; and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.…

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Russia, China Open $342m Cross-Border Bridge as Ties Deepen

ADEOLA YUSUF

“In today’s divided world, the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe bridge between Russia and China carries a special symbolic meaning.”   Russia and China have opened a new cross-border bridge in the Far East that they hope will further strengthen trade as Moscow reels from sweeping Western sanctions imposed over its actions in Ukraine. The bridge linking the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the Chinese city of Heihe across the Amur River – known in China as the Heilongjiang – is about 1km long and cost 19 billion roubles ($342m), the RIA news agency…

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Ogun ABAT Movement Rallies Support For Tinubu

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Ogun State Chapter of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement of Nigeria and the Diaspora, ABAT, has congratulated the national leader of All Progressives Congress,APC,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence as the the party’s flag bearer in the 2023 Presidential election. The group conveyed the congratulatory message in a statement jointly signed by the Director -General of Ogun state chapter of ABAT, Otunba Femi Soluade,and chairman of the group,Cardinal James Omolaja Odunmbaku, made available to newsmen. The group expressed that the huge support given to Asiwaju Tinubu during the…

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How Road Accident Killed 1,834 Nigerians in 3 months — NBS

ADEOLA YUSUF

Country suffered 3,345 road accidents between January and March, 2022 A report by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has revealed that 1,834 persons died out of 3,345 road accidents that occurred across country between January and March 2022. The report titled, “Road Transport Data Q1 2022,” however, showed that there was a decline of 1.82% from last year’s October to December which recorded 3,407. In the report that was published on Wednesday, NBS said there were 871 fatal accidents and 374 minor ones in the period under review, as…

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Court Acquits Ochuko, Ex-PPMC MD Haruna Momoh’s Wife, Of N3bn Fraud

ADEOLA YUSUF

A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged and acquitted Ochuko Momoh, wife of a former Managing Director of Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Haruna Momoh of money laundering related charges. Platforms Africa reports that Ochuko was facing trial in a N3bn fraud case. In a judgment on Thursday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo acquitted Ochuko and five others on money laundering related charges. READ ALSO: N80bn Fraud: Buhari Suspends Accountant General After Arrest by EFCC House of Reps ex-Speaker, Patricia Etteh, Arrested for Alleged Fraud Nigeria’s Accountant General Arrested for N80bn…

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Foreign Direct Investment Flows Into Africa Hit record $83bn

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The first and the last; how Southern, West, East and North Africa countries shared the FDI Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to African countries hit a record $83bn in 2021, according to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2022 published on June 9. This was more than double the amount reported in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic weighed heavily on investment flows to the continent. Despite the strong growth, investment flows to Africa accounted for only 5.2 percent of global FDI, up from 4.1 percent in 2020. READ ALSO Nigeria’s Oil Revenue Sinks…

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Tinubu In Surprise Visit To Osinbajo’s Home + Photos

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Visit coordinated by Nigeria’s First Lady, Hajjia Aisha Buhari – report The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the 2023 elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has paid a surprise visit to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), in his Abuja residence. Osinbajo lost to Tinubu at the presidential primaries of the APC at Eagle Square, Abuja on Wednesday, coming third. A former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, came second. READ ALSO: INEC Gives Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, Others 8 days to Present Running Mates Tinubu promises 15,000MW Electricity,…

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Nigerians Defy CBN Ban, Trade N78bn Bitcoin in 3 Months

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Nigerians traded at least N77.75bn ($185m) worth of Bitcoin in the first three months of the year despite the Central Bank of Nigeria’s restrictions on cryptocurrency transactions in the country. This is a 5.71 per cent increase from the N73.54bn worth of Bitcoin that was traded in the corresponding period of 2021, according to data made available to our correspondent by Paxful, one of the major peer-to-peer cryptocurrency platforms in the nation. Trade from Nigeria accounted for 25.87 per cent of the total N300.48bn ($715m) worth of Bitcoin that was…

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