Nigeria’s Ban On Cash Withdrawals From Public Accounts Not To Fight The Government
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit says that its ban on cash withdrawals for all federal and state accounts is to help governors and not to fight them. The NGF also set up a six-member committee...
23 Jan 20231min
Microsoft To Cut 10,000 Jobs As Spending Slows
Microsoft says it will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry which will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn in severance a...
20 Jan 20231min
Ukraine Minister, Others Dead In Helicopter Crash
Ukraine’s interior minister and other officials were among more than a dozen people killed in a helicopter crash near a kindergarten outside Kyiv, in a blow to the war-battered nation’s government. Uk...
20 Jan 20231min
New Zealand Prime Minister Resigns
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a global figurehead of progressive politics, announced that she would resign from office in a matter of weeks. She says she no longer had enough in the tank....
20 Jan 20231min
UN Peacekeepers Find Mass Graves In East DR Congo
UN peacekeepers in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have found dozens of bodies in mass graves. The discovery comes after a series of attacks by armed groups in the region of Ituri. A UN s...
20 Jan 202357s
Ethiopia's TPLF says Eritrean Forces Still In Tigray
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front has refuted remarks by African Union mediator Olusegun Obasanjo that Eritrean forces have withdrawn from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region following a truce to end...
20 Jan 20231min
South Africa To Hold Military Drills With Russia, China
South Africa's military has announced it will next month hold joint military drills with Russia and China off its coast. The drills will run for 10 days from 17 February to 27 February in the port cit...
20 Jan 20231min
Lagos States Declares Work-free Days For PVC Collection
The Lagos State Government has declared a four-day work-free day for public servants to enable them to collect their Permanent Voter Cards at their respective local government/local council developmen...
20 Jan 20231min
