WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine urged residents of Kyiv and several other areas to limit electricity use as it seeks to recover from Russian strikes on the power grid while the elderly and vulnerable were preparing for a voluntary evacuation of war-ravaged Kherson. LIFE IN UKRAINE * Ukrainians are most likely to live with blackouts at least until the end of March, the head of a major energy provider said. * As they head into a cold winter, residents of a bombed-out Ukrainian village say they appreciate a warm bath in a mural painted by graffiti artist Banksy. The mural shows a…

Barely six months to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the Federal Government’s total debts and other financial liabilities have reached N71.46 trillion. The figure does not include undocumented contingent liabilities to university lecturers, public school teachers and other public employees to whom government is indebted. Analysts say these undocumented liabilities could run into several trillions. The figures also exclude other pending financial liabilities to non-lending bilateral and multilateral institutions. These include regional and global institutions the country subscribes to as a member. While the traditional debt stock of the central government has ballooned from less than N10 trillion…