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More than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece as Mediterranean wildfires threaten villages and holiday resorts, and thousands have been evacuated. Greece is preparing for more evacuation flights from Rhodes, as fires also rage on the islands of Corfu and Evia. The current long heatwave shows no let-up - temperatures are expected to rise above 44C (111F) in parts of Greece. Fires in Sicily and Puglia have […]
Cambodia's Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving leaders, has announced he will resign as prime minister and hand over to his son in coming weeks. The anticipated announcement came three days after his party again won all the seats at an uncompetitive election. Hun Sen, 70, has become increasingly authoritarian after nearly four-decades of rule, analysts say. He first flagged a transition in 2021, but until Wednesday, no one […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed banks to vacate a post-no-debit restriction placed on the bank accounts of 440 individuals and companies. A post-no-debit means that all debit transactions, including ATMs and cheques, on the accounts have been blocked but can receive inflows. The circular, signed by A.M. Barau on behalf of the CBN director of banking supervision, on Tuesday, also instructed banks to notify the concerned customers of […]
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, Tuesday said that a total of 1,618 civil servants with fake employment letters were uncovered by the government. She also noted that the government was working towards an upward review of the Duty Tour Allowances of civil servants. Speaking with selected journalists in Abuja ahead of the 2023 Civil Servants Week, she noted that a committee was working towards salary […]
Condemnation has trailed the conduct of the Department of State Services at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday during the court appearance of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. The DSS took Emefiele before the court for arraignment on Tuesday but rearrested and whisked him away despite that the court granted him bail and ordered that he should be remanded at the Ikoyi […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas has called for more collaboration and engagements between the Nigerian National Assembly and the German Parliament also known as the Bundestag. The Speaker who gave the charge in Abuja during an interactive session with the German Ambassador to Nigeria, Annett Günther, urged Germany to emulate the United Kingdom in the advancement and sustenance of democracy in Nigeria. The Speaker therefore stressed […]
Mali has removed French as its official language, a move that comes more than six decades after Bamako gained independence. The decision is contained in the West African country’s new constitution, adopted on Saturday. On Friday, Bamako’s constitutional court validated the final results of a June referendum on a draft constitution, saying that it received 96.91% approval from voters. French will serve as the primary working language, while the 13 […]
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 25 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has insisted that the declaration of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria's president is unlawful, null and void and unconstitutional hence he must be removed from the office to sanitize the polity. Atiku maintained that Tinubu having personally admitted and as also confirmed by his witness that he forfeited $460,000 to the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC has urged leaders of political parties to call their Candidates and their supporters in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States to order as Campaigns Commences for the November Governorship Election. INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu stated this in Abuja during a meeting with Leaders of the nineteen registered Political Parties in the Country. Professor Yakubu said the call became necessary as the Commission had been receiving […]
