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Ghana Appeals To IMF For Support Over Ailing Economy

Ghana Appeals To IMF For Support Over Ailing Economy

July 2, 2022 5:15 am

Ghana on Friday revealed that it was seeking International Monetary Fund (IMF) support for its economy, which has been harmed by inflation, a pandemic slump, and the war in Ukraine in the last two years.

The President of the country, Nana Akufo-Addo had previously rejected calls to seek financial assistance from the IMF.

However, on Friday Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah claimed the president had ‘authorised Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to commence formal engagements’ with the IMF.

Ghana has concluded plans to invite the Fund ‘to support an economic programme put together by the government of Ghana,’ he said in …

Again, Bandits Storm Taraba Kill Seven Soldiers

Again, Bandits Storm Taraba Kill Seven Soldiers

July 2, 2022 4:45 am

At least seven soldiers were on Friday killed by armed bandits in Karim-Lamido Local Government Council of Taraba State following hours of heavy shootout.

The killing was coming less than after six soldiers were killed in Takum council in an ambush by bandits.

The soldiers were alleged to have been killed in a forest around Amdami area in Karim Lamido Friday night.

Sources told reporters that the slain soldiers were on patrol when they ran into an ambush laid by the bandits.

The killing was confirmed the council of chairman of Karim Lamido, Markus Hamidu on Saturday.

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Monkeypox WHO Calls For ‘Urgent’ Action In Europe

Monkeypox: WHO Calls For ‘Urgent’ Action In Europe

July 2, 2022 4:39 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday raised fresh alarm calling for ‘urgent’ action to forestall the spread of monkeypox in Europe, pointing out that cases had tripled there over the past two weeks.

‘Today, I am intensifying my call for governments and civil society to scale up efforts … to prevent monkeypox from establishing itself across a growing geographical area,’ WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Henri Kluge asserted.

‘Urgent and coordinated action is imperative if we are to turn a corner in the race to reverse the ongoing spread of this disease’ he added.

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Odesa 'There Was No One Alive' - Minister Gives Update On Odesa Strike

‘There Was No One Alive’ – Minister Gives Update On Odesa Strike

July 1, 2022 1:46 pm

Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York have revealed that the death toll from Russia’s overnight strikes in the Odesa region of Ukraine has risen to up to 20 dead individuals as gotten from Ukraine’s emergency services.

Reports revealed that at least 16 people had been killed in a residential building, and four more, including one child, were killed in another strike at a recreation centre. A third strike had landed in a field, authorities said.

Read Also: Sweden Resolves To Move Demining Anti-Tank Weapons To Ukraine

A rescue operation is ongoing and 38 people were …

Islamic Clerics Mull Solution ToASUU ASUU's 52 Months Strike

Islamic Clerics Mull Solution To ASUU’s 52 Months Strike

July 1, 2022 1:43 pm

While reacting to the incessant strikes by ASUU since its inception, the League of Imams and Alfas in Ogun State have openly lamented that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has gone on strike for a cumulative period of 52 months since 1999 and they called for a reasonable solution to their incessant strikes.

This, the Islamic clerics analysed had amounted to a total of two years and four months altogether.

Read Also: ASUU Srike: NLC Moves To Hold One-Day Protest In Solidarity

They also opined that the incessant strike action in universities had turned Nigerian youths into unskilled …

Sweden Resolves To Move Demining Anti-Tank Weapons To Ukraine

July 1, 2022 6:21 am

Sweden on Friday revealed that it will be donating several anti-tank weapons and demining equipment to Ukraine in its bid to assist Ukraine in the ongoing wage war against Russia.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Sweden which happens to be just one of the two countries that have just joined NATO, will be sending weapons worth 500 million Swedish Krona ($49 million) to Ukraine.

According to the country’s defense ministry spokesperson, Toni Eriksson, the equipment was requested by the Ukrainian government a few weeks ago.

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Germany Moves To Make Gender Change Legally Easier

Germany Moves To Make Legal Change Of Gender Easier

July 1, 2022 6:15 am

The government of Germany on Thursday disclosed plans to make it easier for trans people to officially change their first name and gender, acknowledging that existing legislation was outdated and ‘humiliating’.

‘The right to live a self-determined life is fundamental to all people,’ Family Affairs Minister Lisa Paus told a Berlin press conference which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

The proposed law is expected to replace Germany’s 40-year ‘transsexual law’ that requires people to go to court and provide two expert reports, usually from psychotherapists, before they can have the name and gender they identify with legally …

Another Chibok School Girl Rescued From Terrorists In Borno

Another Chibok School Girl Rescued From Terrorists In Borno

July 1, 2022 6:02 am

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai in Borno State have announced that they have rescued another Chibok girl from the captivity of terrorists who had abducted them over 8 years ago.

According to military sources, the girl was rescued around the Bama Axis of Borno State on Thursday.

Theatre Commander Joint Task Force Operation Hadin Kai, Major General Christopher Musa, who confirmed this to reporters in Borno state, said profiling of the rescued girl is ongoing.

Recall that the military had earlier this month had disclosed that it rescued Mary Dauda, one of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted in 2014.

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ASUU Srike NLC Moves To Hold One-Day Protest In Solidarity

ASUU Srike: NLC Moves To Hold One-Day Protest In Solidarity

July 1, 2022 5:04 am

Angered by the incessant industrial actions going on in the educational sector in the country, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday announced that it has concluded plans to hold a one–day national protest to force the Federal Government to meet the demands of the striking university-based unions.

The congress pointed out that reports from a meeting of its Central Working Committee showed a painful lack of progress in the negotiation with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, and National Association of Academic Technologists.

The …

Outrage As Man Beheaded For ‘Blasphemy’ In India

Outrage As Man Is Beheaded For ‘Blasphemy’ In India

July 1, 2022 4:51 am

A man in India, whose name was given as Kanhaiya Lal, was on Thursday been murdered over alleged blasphemy against Prophet Mohammad.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Lal who is a tailor was hacked to death right inside his shop in Udaipur, a city in the western Indian State of Rajasthan.

The perpetrators who went on to post the video online, claimed that they killed him in retaliation of his ‘support’ for a remark about Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

Lal, who ran Supreme Tailors in Udaipur’s Hathipole, was seen in the video posted online taking measurements of one …

Illegal Nigerian Migrants Deported From UK Arrive Lagos

Illegal Nigerian Migrants Deported From UK Arrive Lagos

June 30, 2022 4:17 pm

Some 38 Nigerians who were deported from the United Kingdom have arrived in Lagos, according to reports gotten from authorities in Nigeria.

Among those who were deported back to Nigeria also included mothers and grandmothers and some members of LGBTQ+ communities who were seeking asylum are also part of the deportees.

Read Also: Over 14 Migrants Die As Boat Goes Up In Flames In Senegal

Some of the deportees claimed they have lived in the United Kingdom for many years. They arrived in Lagos early this morning with one Home Office charter flight.

However, the Nigeria Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Insecurity Bandits Release Abducted Kano University Lecturer

Bandits Attack Leaves 13 Dead, 2 Chinese Expatriates Abducted

June 30, 2022 12:21 pm

A recent coordinated attack by bandits has seen thirteen persons including seven mobile policemen and six civilians killed at a mining site which is located in the Ajata-Aboki area in Gurmana Ward of Shiroro Local Government Area, Niger State.

The unfortunate mobile policemen had been attached to the mining site to provide some security cover for the expatriates who had been working at the mining site owned and managed by Chinese nationals.

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Several persons had also sustained injuries during the attack which had occurred on Wednesday evening.

Confirming the incident, the …

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