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126PoliticsBuhari Arrives In New York For UN General Assembly
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in the United States of America, Channels Television has learnt. The President touched down at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, at exactly 5:10 pm local time ahead of the high-level General debate of the United Nations Assembly on September 21, 2021....
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127PoliticsBuhari Departs Abuja To Attend 76th UN General Assembly
President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for New York, the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina disclosed this on Sunday, adding that his principal will join other world leaders for the 76th session of...
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11PoliticsBuhari To Address World Leaders At UN General Assembly In New York
President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to the United States of America to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76), the Presidency has said. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. He revealed...
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237PoliticsBuhari leaves for UN General Assembly in New York
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for New York, United States of America, to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76). A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina explained that the session opened on...
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67BusinessCBN to establish Nigerian International financial Centre to attract foreign investors
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that the Nigerian International Financial Centre (NIFC) will be established to act as a gateway for funds and investments into the country. According to the CBN, the centre will be driven by technology and payment system infrastructure. Governor Godwin Emefiele made the...
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69WorldBiden to address UN General Assembly for first time as president
Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week for first the time as U.S president. The White House said on Monday that Bien would travel to New York on Tuesday next week to speak at the assembly’s General Debate. Republican Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor,...
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146Security updatesBREAKING: Yoruba Nation agitators, others storm UN headquarters in New York
Yoruba Nation agitators and other self-determination groups have arrived at the United Nations Headquaters in New York. Eaier, the Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, Professor Banji Akintoye, has declared that a Million-Man Freedom March would hold opposite the United Nations Headquaters in New York, United States of...
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6PoliticsFG reviews restriction on foreign travellers without evidence of COVID-19 test
The Federal Government has asked airlines to allow foreign travellers without evidence of payment for their COVID-19 PCR test. This was disclosed by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) in a memo it issued and seen by Nairametrics. According to the memo, foreign airlines were asked to board passengers without...
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97Security updatesCOVID-19: FG Relaxes Restriction On Foreign Travellers
The Federal Government has relaxed the restriction on foreign travellers without evidence of payment for their COVID-19 PCR test. In a memo by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, foreign airlines were asked to board passengers without evidence of payment for day seven COVID-19 PCR test or generate paid QR code/permit...
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64World
Kenyan Influencers Paid To Take ‘guerrilla Warfare’ Online
Confronting harassment by Kenyan Twitter influencers – recently revealed to have been paid to promote misinformation – is akin to dealing with guerrilla warfare, admits an activist involved in a legal battle to stop a change to the constitution. “It is waged against you until it tires you out,” Daisy...
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82World(VIDEO) Taliban Fighters ’round Up Women Into Car Park Like Cattle’ & Open Fire
TALIBAN fighters have reportedly opened fire on a protest and rounded up female marchers as the terror group continues a brutal crackdown on its enemies. Pictures and videos show the chaos on the streets of Kabul as heavily armed extremists fired assault rifles and rolled up in pick up trucks...
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108World
UN Says Basic Services In Afghanistan Are Collapsing
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Tuesday said Afghanistan is facing the collapse of basic services, food and other aids. OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told a UN briefing in Geneva that millions of Afghans were in need of food aid and health assistance, urging donors to...
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28EntertainmentFilmmaker Takeshi Kitano attacked with pickax in Japan
A man who allegedly attacked a car carrying Japanese entertainment icon Takeshi Kitano with a pickax, has been arrested by the police in Tokyo. Though nobody was injured, it was learnt that the 74-year-old director and actor also known by his stage name Beat Takeshi, was in the car with his...
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604World
Taliban say they took Panjshir, last holdout Afghan province
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban said on Monday they have taken control of Panjshir province north of Kabul, the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the country and the only province the Taliban had not seized during their blitz across Afghanistan last month. Thousands of Taliban fighters...
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Taliban Kill Pregnant Policewoman In Front Of Family, Mutilate Her Face
A pregnant policewoman has been shot dead by Taliban militants in Afghanistan, witnesses claim. The officer was reportedly gunned down at home in the capital of central Ghor province, Firozkoh, on Saturday, September 4. Banu Negar’s face was described as being mutilated in the savage attack which left blood splattered across a...