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Thursday, 09 March 2023 05:58

What to know after Day 378 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Wagner chief reports progress in key Donbass city Russian forces are in full control of the eastern part of the strategic Donbass city of Artyomovsk, or Bakhmut as it’s called by Ukraine, head of the Wagner Group private military company Evgeny Prigozhin has said. “The units of the Wagner Group PMC have taken over the entire eastern part of Artyomovsk. Everything east of the Bakhmutka River is completely under the control of the Wagner Group,” Prigozhin announced in an audio message published by his press service on Wednesday. The Wagner Group chief also posted a video of himself…

Wednesday, 08 March 2023 05:56

Fed economists: Starting today, Europe is depopulating

About 2,100 babies are born every day in Germany, and more than 2,500 people die. Immigration is the reason Germany’s population has been level for 20 years. What’s true for Germany is true for Europe as a whole: In 2019, Europe’s population grew by one-tenth of 1%. Europe’s growth rate has been headed toward zero steadily for a decade, and a new report out of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis estimates that Europe’s population has peaked. The continent begins its steady depopulation today. “The era of rapid population growth is coming to an end,” write Fed economists Amy…

Wednesday, 08 March 2023 05:54

What to know after Day 377 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Investigators find vessel involved in Nord Stream sabotage German authorities probing explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines have identified a vessel that appears to have been involved in what is widely regarded as an act of sabotage, a host of German media outlets revealed on Tuesday. The yacht, which was reportedly used in the attack on the pipelines, belongs to a Polish-based company owned by two Ukrainians, according to the reports. Germany’s ARD broadcaster SWR radio and Die Zeit newspaper launched what they called their own joint journalistic investigation into the activities of the German law enforcement…

Tuesday, 07 March 2023 12:34

Obituary: Fed Onyeoziri (1941 - 2023)

Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, has announced the demise of Fredrick Eze Chikeziye Onyeoziri, popularly known simply as Fred Onyeoziri. Onyeoziri died on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, in Abuja after a brief illness, at the age of 81. He was born on July 21, 1941 at Umuokehi-Ohuhu in what is presently constituted as the Umuahia North Local Government Council, Abia State, Nigeria. Onyeoziri was a 1964 Foundation class member of the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, where he obtained a B.Sc. Second Class Upper Division Degree in June 1967. He proceeded soon after the Civil War…

Tuesday, 07 March 2023 06:01

Banks start paying customers old N500, N1000 notes

Following the Supreme Court judgment, which extended the validity of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) currency redesign policy to December, some deposit money banks have started paying out the old notes. Daily Trust checks showed that some commercial banks in Kano and Abuja have commenced paying out the old N500 and N1000 notes. While some branches of Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) issued out old notes, some others like Polaris bank in Abuja had not commenced as of the time this report was filed. A member of staff confided in our reporter that only the old N200 notes were still…

Tuesday, 07 March 2023 05:58

What to know after Day 376 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine vows not to give up on Bakhmut amid constant Russian attacks Ukraine's top military commanders have vowed to keep defending the besieged city of Bakhmut, where Russia is hoping to make its first major wartime gain in more than half a year, and will strengthen their defences, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Amidst some of the bloodiest fighting of the more than one-year long invasion, Moscow says capturing the city would be a step towards its major objective of seizing the full territory of the surrounding Donbas region. The General Staff of Ukraine's armed forces late on Monday…

Monday, 06 March 2023 05:52

‘To those extending arm of friendship, I offer mine in return’, Tinubu tells world leaders

Bola Tinubu, president-elect of Nigeria, says he is ready to work with world leaders who have “extended the arm of friendship” following his victory at the presidential poll. Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), won 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had 6,984,520 votes and Peter Obi, Labour Party flagbearer, who polled 6,101,533. Congratulatory messages have been pouring in from world leaders since the announcement, with the United States of America and Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, commending the APC standard bearer. Tinubu, in a tweet on Sunday, said the…

Monday, 06 March 2023 05:49

What to know after Day 375 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Turkey says it is working to renew Black Sea grain deal Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday that Ankara is working hard to extend a U.N.-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded by Russia. FIGHTING * Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut face increasingly strong pressure from Russian forces, British military intelligence said on Saturday, with intense fighting taking place in and around the eastern city. * A woman and two children were killed in Russian mortar shelling of a village in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, the head of Ukraine's presidential…

Sunday, 05 March 2023 06:01

What to know after Day 374 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine forces defending Bakhmut under increasingly severe pressure Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut are facing increasingly strong pressure from Russian forces, British military intelligence said on Saturday, with intense fighting taking place in and around the eastern city. Ukraine is reinforcing the area with elite units, while regular Russian army and forces of the private military Wagner group have made further advances into Bakhmut's northern suburbs, the British Defence Ministry said in its daily intelligence bulletin. Advertisement · Scroll to continue The Ukraine armed forces' general staff said in a Facebook post late on Saturday that Russian troops were…

Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:31

12 die as bus loaded with stolen crude oil bursts into flames

The Police Command in Rivers has confirmed that 12 persons died in the Friday morning explosion in Rumuekpe community of Emoha Local Government Area of the state. Spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said, in a statement in Port Harcourt, that preliminary investigation indicated that the victims were scooping crude product when the site caught fire. The explosion occurred as a bus loaded with some siphoned crude went up in flames, as it was leaving the spot for an illegal refinery in the area. “So far, 12 persons are believed to have been burnt to death. The identities of the…

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Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:29

What to know after Day 373 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Biden, Scholz vow to punish Russia for war in Ukraine U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed on Friday to keep imposing costs on Russia for its war in Ukraine, now in its second year, as an EU official said any arms provided by China to Russia would trigger sanctions. Biden and Scholz met in private in the Oval Office for over an hour, a senior administration official said. Their discussion focused on the importance of continued "global solidarity" with the people of Ukraine, and ongoing efforts to provide security, humanitarian, economic, and political assistance…

Friday, 03 March 2023 11:42

Supreme Court extends validity of old Naira notes, rebukes Buhari for disobedience of court order

The Supreme Court has extended the the validity of the N200, N500, and N1,000 notes till 31 December. A seven-member panel of the court led by John Okoro unanimously directed that the CBN must continue to receive the old notes from Nigerians The court held that the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari for the redesign of the new notes and withdrawal of the old notes without due consultation is invalid. Emmanuel Agim, a member of the panel, who read the lead judgement, also condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s disobedience of the court’s 8 February order that the old N200, N500, and…

Friday, 03 March 2023 06:01

What to know after Day 372 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ex-Russian president names ‘red line’ for direct war with NATO Canadian and German troops teaching Ukrainians how to use Leopard tanks already qualifies as participation in the conflict, but sending fighter jets to Poland would mean “direct entry,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. Medvedev, who is also deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, warned the US and its allies that they can be treated as parties to the conflict “if, in addition to supplying weapons, they train personnel to operate them,” citing legal precedents from the early 20th century. Tank training on EU territory…

Thursday, 02 March 2023 15:13

Tinubu ‘with a reputation for lavish spending and corruption’ to replace Buhari ‘with a reputation for financial propriety’ - The Times, UK

Bola Tinubu, a wealthy kleptocratic “godfather” of politics who campaigned on the slogan “It’s my turn”, has been declared winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election. The result means Africa’s most populous country and largest economy has replaced Muhammadu Buhari, an ailing northern octogenarian Muslim with a reputation for financial propriety, with an ailing southern septuagenarian Muslim with a reputation for lavish spending and corruption. Tinubu, the ruling party’s 70-year-old candidate, was declared the winner in the early hours of Wednesday with 36 per cent of the vote, ahead of Atiku Abubakar on 29 per cent and Peter Obi on 25…

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