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The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors announced that Ajay Banga, a U.S. national, was the only nominee for the position of the next President of the bank. This is contained in a statement issued by the World Bank in Abuja on Friday. “The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors today confirmed that,…
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By AFP An Israeli missile strike aimed at Iranian and Hezbollah targets early Sunday killed 15 people and destroyed a building in a Damascus neighbourhood home to much of Syria’s security apparatus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike, which hit close to an Iranian cultural centre, had killed…
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WASHINGTON — The United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon on Saturday that had spent the last week traversing the country, an explosive end to a drama that put a diplomatic crisis between the world’s two great powers onto television screens in real time. The balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal…
cull from CNN reports The San Francisco Superior Court on Friday released video and audio recorded during last year’s attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, including police body-cam footage depicting the moment of the attack and the alleged assailant’s police interview where he admitted he wanted to hold the then-House speaker hostage. The video…
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Who Was Tyre Nichols? 5 Memphis Officers Charged Mr. Tyre Nichols worked for FedEx, a major employer and corporate presence in Memphis. Here is a sequence of events in the death of Tyre Nichols.Mr. Nichols was pulled over by the Memphis police on the evening of Jan. 7 and died three days later. Five officers…
Thursday 26th January, both Prosecutors and defense attorneys started their opening arguments in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina attorney who is accused of killing his wife and youngest son, with both sides describing a gruesome scene where the two were found dead. Creighton Waters, the state’s lead prosecutor in…
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The United States of America government has placed a visa ban on Nigerians accused of undermining democracy by their acts in the country. US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, January 25. He added that while the names of the those affected by the ban won’t be revealed, it…
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The United States of America have awarded five airmen for partaking in the longest-distance nighttime hostage rescue mission in US military history. In 2020, the airmen reportedly flew about 2,000 miles from Rota, Spain to rescue an American held hostage by a group of armed men in northern Nigeria. The hostage was said to be…
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By Agency Report Russian air defense systems shot down a drone over the waters of Sevastopol, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Saturday. “Some 15 minutes ago, air defenses shot down a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] over the waters of the Northern mole,” he stated on his Telegram channel on Saturday. “Even a holy celebration of…
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Nigerians and other foreigners will not be able to purchase a residential property beginning from the first of this year. The ban is expected to be in place for the next two years in the first instance. The ‘Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act’ was enacted to lower residential property prices,…
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