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Panic As Petrol, Diesel Storage Tanks Explode In Niger

Panic As Petrol, Diesel Storage Tanks Explode In Niger

March 23, 2022 12:12 am
Fire on Monday night razed down a building in Javino in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State.
According to eyewitnesses who spoke to newsmen, the outbreak was caused by activities at the building where petrol was allegedly stored illegally.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that with fuel scarcity in most parts of Nigeria, the owner of the goods was said to have stored diesel in tanks for sale to desperate customers as ‘black market’.
Read Also: Bandits Murder DPO, 2 Officers, 4 Vigilantes In Niger State
According to an eyewitness, the owner on Monday tried to use
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Russian Court Declares Instagram, Facebook As ‘Extremist’

Russian Court Declares Instagram, Facebook As ‘Extremist’

March 22, 2022 11:17 pm
A court sitting in Moscow on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram as in the country declaring them as ‘extremist’ organisations, after Russian authorities accused US tech giant Meta of tolerating ‘Russophobia’ over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The Tverskoi district court disclosed that it had agreed to a request from prosecutors for the two huge social media platforms to be banned for ‘carrying out extremist activities’.
They however indicated that Meta’s WhatsApp messenger service would not face the same fate because it is not a public platform.
Africa Daily News, New York understands that the move is part of sweeping
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US Takes Fight Against Corruption Global, Pledges Efforts

US Takes Fight Against Corruption Global, Pledges Efforts

March 22, 2022 10:26 pm
The Government of the United States of America (USA) has described corruption as a cancer that is spreading beyond national and regional borders that would require very deliberate and concerted joint efforts by countries of the world including international agencies to combat.
The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. State Department, James Walsh, pointed this out in a statement.
According to him, corruption wherever it exists is an enabler of all forms of criminality, particularly transnational crime.
Walsh asserted that since corruption impedes investment, stunts economic growth, hampers government
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Plane With 133 Onboard Crashes In China

March 21, 2022 11:22 pm
An Eastern passenger jet in China which had 133 people onboard has crashed in South-West China with casualties yet to be ascertained.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the Boeing 737 plane had crashed in the rural countryside near Wuzhou city, Guangxi region and ’caused a mountain fire’, according to the footages made available to the provincial emergency management bureau.
It was gathered that rescue teams were on Monday morning dispatched to the scene for rescue operations.
According to the management bureau, a ‘China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 plane carrying 133 people has crashed in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi,
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Anxiety As Measles Hit Benue IDP Camps 

March 21, 2022 11:01 pm
Dozens of people have reportedly been hit with measles at various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Benue State over the last few days, Africa Daily News, New York has gathered.
Over the last few days, no fewer than 60 people who are mostly children above the age of five, had been infected in some of the camps located in Guma Local Government Area of the State according to reports.
Africa Daily News, New York learnt that at least 30 people cases were reported in the Ortese IDPs camp in Guma while the remaining cut across the many other IDPs
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We’ll Deduct N242bn Fuel Subsidy From FAAC This Month –NNPC

We’ll Deduct ₦242bn Fuel Subsidy From FAAC This Month –NNPC

March 20, 2022 6:31 am

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is to deduct ₦242.53bn as subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol, from the Federation Account this month.

Although it described the proposed subsidy deduction as a value shortfall, the oil firm stated that the fund would be recovered from February 2022 proceeds due for sharing in the March 2022 Federation Account Allocation Committee meeting.

The NNPC disclosed this in its latest presentation to the FAAC meeting, which was obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.

It said, ‘The December 2021 value shortfall recovery on the importation of PMS amounted …

Russia Begins Use Of Advanced Hypersonic Missiles In Ukraine

Russia Begins Use Of Advanced Hypersonic Missiles In Ukraine

March 19, 2022 9:00 am

Russian authorities have revealed that she used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine yesterday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west.

This was made known by the defence ministry on Saturday.

Russia has never before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during the conflict in pro-Western Ukraine.

“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk …

ASUU Kicks As NASS Moves To Establish 186 Universities

ASUU Kicks As NASS Moves To Establish 186 Universities

March 19, 2022 6:07 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has tackled the national assembly over the initiation of new bills for the creation of new universities in Nigeria.

ASUU wondered why the government would push for the creation of new universities while ignoring the existing ones currently in dilapidated states.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the National Universities Commission, the regulatory body of universities in Nigeria, puts the total number of federal universities at 49; state-owned universities, 55, and private-owned universities, 99.

Though the NUC had earlier argued that the number of universities and lecturers in the country might not …

Seven Injured Following Clashes In Guinea-Bissau

Seven Injured Following Clashes In Guinea-Bissau

March 19, 2022 5:52 am

No fewer than seven people were injured on Friday in clashes between police and supporters of the former ruling party of Guinea-Bissau.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the incident took place in the capital Bissau at the headquarters of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) which is just opposite the presidential palace.

Police had reportedly used tear gas and truncheons to disperse the supporters of the PAIGC, which led Guinea-Bissau to independence from Portugal in 1974 and still contests the 2019 election of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.

‘We deplore the events …

Finland Named World’s Happiest Nation For Fifth Year

Finland Named World’s Happiest Nation For Fifth Year

March 18, 2022 1:10 pm

Finland was on Friday named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, in an annual UN-sponsored index that again ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, followed closely by Lebanon.

According to the rankings, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania recorded the biggest boosts in wellbeing. The largest falls in the World Happiness table, released on Friday, came in Lebanon, Venezuela and Afghanistan.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Lebanon, which is facing an economic meltdown, fell to second from last on the index of 146 nations, just below Zimbabwe.

War-traumatised Afghanistan, already bottom of the table, has seen …

Russia Accuses Google, YouTube Of ‘Terrorist’ Activities

Russia Accuses Google, YouTube Of ‘Terrorist’ Activities

March 18, 2022 12:20 pm

Russian regulators on Friday came hard on US tech giant Google and its video subsidiary YouTube accusing it of ‘terrorist’ activities, which appears to be the first step towards a possible access ban.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Russia has already blocked access to other global tech giants including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as several independent media from her webspace.

Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor said YouTube users ‘are sharing adverts with calls to shut down railway communications between Russia and Belarus’.

Read Also: Ukraine: Russia Already Crossed All Red Lines – Zelensky

Russia partly carried out …

NERC Confirms Removal Of Electricity Subsidy

NERC Confirms Removal Of Electricity Subsidy

March 18, 2022 5:50 am

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday has confirmed the removal of electricity subsidies by the Federal Government indicating that the citizens would now bear the full cost going forward.

While addressing a news conference in Abuja on Friday morning, the Chairman of the Commission, Mr Sanusi Garba, revealed that the review was conducted in line with multi-year tariff order that mandates that electricity tariff be reviewed every six months.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the NERC’s confirmation is coming at a time the nation continues to confront an energy crisis amid petrol queues, rising diesel costs …

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