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Central Bank of Nigeria pushes forward deadline to turn in old naira notes
Nigeria’s central bank will extend by 10 days a deadline for swapping old naira currency notes, it said in a statement on Sunday. Nigerians will now have until Feb. 10 to turn in 1,000 ($2.17), 500 a…
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Unknown gunmen kill 8 people, injure others at birthday party in South Africa
Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, police said, adding that manhunt was underway to find the killers. The mass shooting w…
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Former British PM Boris says Putin threatened to attack him with missile within a ‘minute’
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run up to the invasion of Ukraine. Johnson, speak…
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Police Brutality: Memphis police unit involved in fatal arrest of Tyre Nichols shutdown
Memphis has shut down the ‘Scorpion’ police unit involved in the arrest of Tyre Nichols, who died on 10 January, three days after a traffic stop turned into a confrontation with officers. Memphis pol…
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Nigeria launches own domestic card in bid to tackle MasterCard and Visa
Nigeria’s central bank on Thursday launched a domestic card scheme to rival foreign cards like Mastercard and Visa, hoping to enhance its drive to make Africa’s biggest economy a cashless society and…
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U.S. declares Russian firm Wagner Group as criminal organization
The United States on Thursday imposed additional sanctions against Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which U.S. officials say has been helping Russia’s military in its war in Ukraine…
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Authorities say no link between California dance hall shooter and victims
Los Angeles-area investigators have found no connection between the victims of a mass shooting at a Monterey Park, California, dance hall and the elderly man who carried out the massacre last weekend…
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[Photos] Archaeologists discover oldest and ‘most complete’ 4,300-year-old mummy in Egypt
Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing what may be the oldest and “most complete” mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation team leader said o…
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U.S.A visa-bans some Nigerians over election interference
The United States government has announced a visa ban on some unnamed Nigerians “for undermining the democratic process in a recent Nigerian election”. In a statement on Wednesday, US Secretary of St…
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Machete-wielding man storms churches, kills one and injure several in southern Spain
Spanish authorities said they were investigating what they called a possible “terrorist” incident after a machete-wielding man attacked several people at two churches in the southern port city of Alg…