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Commercial Banks in Anambra State Begin Disbursement Of New Naira Notes 

Hauwa Abubakar Anaja
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Commercial banks in Awka, Anambra State, have commenced the disbursement of new naira notes at their various Automated Teller Machines, ATM.
The Director, Other Official Institutions Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, Awka branch, Mrs Nkiru Asiegbu made this known during a sensitisation of traders at Bridge Head Central, Bridge Head Market, Onitsha, Anambra State.
According to Mrs Asiegbu, customers would also have access to the new naira notes through Point Of Sale agents of various banks
She said that the commercial banks have been given strict instructions to stop dispensing old naira notes as CBN is not reneging on its earlier announced January 31 deadline to cease the circulation of the old naira notes as official tenders.
Contributing, a Senior Supervisor, Other Financial Institutions Department of the CBN, Mr Chibuike Ogbonna, urged the traders to ensure they deposit all old naira notes in their possession to their banks so that they do not have regrets by the deadline which he said is sacrosanct.
Some of the traders, who spoke at the event complained that commercial banks have continued to dispense old naira notes to customers.
They questioned how the deadline would be possible given the inability of many  banks to dispense new naira notes.
Other traders  suggested that phasing out of the old naira should be a gradual process instead of working with the deadline of 31st January, as according to them, CBN has been changing currencies but they were implemented gradually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Damaturu water project to produce 27m litres daily – Official

Kamila Bello
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The Yobe Commissioner for Water Resources, Alkali Jajere, said that 27 million litres of water would be produced and distributed daily under phase one of the Damaturu Water Project.

According to Jajere, the Federal Government- funded project was expected to be completed in April.

He said that the project involved the construction of three work stations with a joint capacity to produce 27 million litres of water daily.

Jajere said he was pleased to announce that the three stations located at Sunsumma, Nayinawa and Mallamatari areas had already been completed.

“The project was approved by the Federal Government at N6.4 billion, with 24 months completion period beginning from April 2020.

“It comprises of three sites; each site has 10 industrial boreholes powered by solar, generator and the national grid.

“Each of the sites also has the capacity to produce 9 million litres of water daily,” the commissioner said.

He said that, the stations had pumped over 6 million litres of water into an underground reservoir at the state Water Corporation Agency.
He added that an overhead tank currently under construction at the Agency would store up to three million litres of water.

The commissioner said, the state on its part, funded the just completed reticulation of the entire Damaturu and its environs, ahead of the project completion period.

He said the initial contract for the project was earlier terminated, but later revived through the efforts of Gov. Mai Mala Buni, shortly after he assumed office.

Jajere said the completion of the project would address water shortages in most parts of the sahelian state, with ever increasing population.

On the second phase of the project, the commissioner announced that the state planned to construct a dam in Damagum to augment the project.

He noted that after completion of the dam, the reticulation exercise would be extended to many communities in Buni Gari, Babbangida, Kukareta and Ngelzarma towns among others

 

American Rapper Snoop Dogg discloses desire to feature Tems

Oluchi Okwuego
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American rapper Snoop Dogg has publicly approached Nigerian superstar Tems, for a song collaboration.
Snoop Dogg disclosed this in a post on Tems’ Instagram account, as Tems shared a video of the American veteran rapper saying how much he loves her music and how he would want to be on a song with her.


In Snoop Dogg’s words, Tems had his family dancing to her music and he would love to make a record with her.

“So Tems, when are we going to make a record? You know I’m a fan. I had to get that out of the way, now let’s get to the sh!t, let’s make a f**cking hit record girl. You’ve been having my whole family dancing…”
Tems took to her Twitter account to express her delight in what she called getting noticed by the GOATS (Greatest of All Time).
she knows she was a GOAT because he easily pulls other GOATs who wish to work with her.

 

“How you know you tha is when you attract the all the ’s. It don’t take too long for a GOAT to recognise another GOAT. But the sheep, they always blind AF”

The prospect of a Snoop Dogg and Tems collaboration as excited fans whom Tems have dazzled with her i are excited by the news as they

 

 

 

Pulse/O.O

Burkina Faso military demands departure of French troops

Hauwa Mustapha
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Burkina Faso’s military government has demanded the departure of French troops stationed in the country, reports.

A spokesman for the government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A spokesman for the French government was not immediately available for comment.

A source close to the Burkina Faso military government confirmed the news of the demand for the departure of French troops, but gave no further details

Report said the military government on 18th suspended a 2018 military accord that allowed the presence of French troops in the country.

It added that France had a month to pull its troops from Burkina Faso.

The decision is a sign of a further deterioration of relations between France and its former colony since a September 2022 military coup.

Some of the tension revolves around perceptions that France’s military presence in Burkina Faso has not improved security in the insurgent-hit West African country.

Hundreds demonstrated against Paris in the capital Ouagadougou on Friday, chanting anti-France slogans and wielding placards calling on the French army to leave the country.

France has some 400 special forces based in the country to help local forces battle the Islamist insurgency that has spread across the Sahel from Mali over the past decade.

Reuters

US Treasury Secretary Yellen visits Senegal

Hauwa Mustapha
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visits  salmon-coloured house on an island off Senegal, the building most recognised symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade.
Yellen, visit is part of a 10-day trip aimed at rebuilding economic relationships between the United States and Africa.
The building was known as the House of Slaves from which tens of millions of Africans were shipped across the Atlantic; never to return.
Yellen said: “Gorée and the trans-Atlantic slave trade are not just a part of African history”. They are a part of American history as well.
“We know that the tragedy did not stop with the generation of humans taken from here. Even after slavery was abolished, Black Americans — many of whom can trace their descendants through ports like this across Africa were denied the rights and freedoms promised to them under our Constitution.”
In the US, African slaves and their children contributed to the building of the nation’s most storied institutions, including the White House and Capitol, according to the White House Historical Association.
Yellen acknowledged the ongoing ramifications of that brutal past and the survival of many of its victims.
“In the United States, what’s remarkable is how many African-American men and women overcame the odds, created better lives for themselves and their descendants and became central to our economy and democracy, building our cities, powering our industries and bending the conscience of the United States and the world toward justice and all of this in the face of systemic social and economic injustice,” she said.
Yellen’s trip to the island is one that many dignitaries have made, including former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and South Africa’s Nelson Mandela.
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Malawi runs out of cholera vaccine amid epidemic

Hauwa Mustapha
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Malawian worst cholera epidemic in decades has sparked massive demand for vaccines but stocks are reportedly running low.

According to local media, citing the spokesperson for the Malawi’s health ministry Adrian Chikumbe, the country has no more cholera vaccines.

Malawi secured a tranche of 2.9 million doses from the Gavi-supported Global Oral Cholera Vaccine Stockpile in November.

The country’s 29 health districts reported cholera cases since the confirmation of the first case in March 2022.

The cumulative confirmed cases and deaths reported since the onset of the outbreak stood at 28,132 and 916 respectively.

In its daily update, the health ministry urged all Malawians to adhere to preventive and containment measures.

Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease spread via contaminated water and food which can cause severe dehydration.

It is a bacterial disease that affects both children and adults.

If left untreated, up to 30% of cholera cases can be fatal and in extreme cases, the disease can kill within hours.

If Malawi is the epicentre of the African epidemic, cholera is surging globally.

In December, the World Health Organization said the global stockpile of cholera vaccines it helps manage was “empty or extremely low”.

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Thousands stage protest against Netanyahu’s government

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s new government to overhaul the country’s judicial system and weaken the Supreme Court.

Israeli media said the police confirmed more than 100,000 people joined Saturday’s protests. The rally followed another demonstration last week that also drew tens of thousands in an early challenge to Netanyahu and his ultranationalist and ultraorthodox government — the most right-wing in Israeli history. It says its judicial changes are needed to curb overreach by activist judges, but the plans have drawn fierce opposition from groups, including lawyers, and raised concerns among business leaders.

Opponents say the changes threaten democratic checks and balances on ministers by the courts.

“They want to turn us into a dictatorship, they want to destroy democracy. They want to destroy judicial authority, there is no democratic country without a judicial authority,” the head of the Israeli Bar Association, Avi Chimi, said.

Netanyahu has dismissed the protests, now in their third week, as a refusal by leftist opponents to accept the results of last November’s election. The prime minister, who is himself on trial on corruption charges, has pledged to press on with the changes.

The protesters, who carried Israeli flags and banners that read “Our Children will not Live in a Dictatorship”, say the future of Israeli democracy is at stake if the government succeeds in pushing through the plans as they would tighten political control over judicial appointments and limit the Supreme Court’s powers to overturn government decisions or Knesset laws.

As well as threatening the independence of judges and weakening oversight of the government and parliament, they say the plans will undermine the rights of minorities and open the door to more corruption.

“All generations are concerned. This is not a joke. This is a complete redefinition of democracy,” said Lior Student, a protester.

“This is a protest to defend the country,” said opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who joined the protest. “People came here today to protect their democracy.”

Other protests took place in the cities of Jerusalem, Haifa and Beersheba. The rallies came days after the Supreme Court ordered Netanyahu to fire Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who leads the religious Shas party, over a recent tax conviction.

The new government, which took office this month, is an alliance between Netanyahu’s Likud party and a clutch of smaller religious and far-right nationalist parties which say they have a mandate for sweeping change.

Likud politicians have long accused the Supreme Court of being dominated by leftist judges who they say encroach on areas outside their authority for political reasons. The court’s defenders say it plays a vital role in holding the government to account in a country that has no formal constitution.

A survey released by the Israel Democracy Institute last week showed trust in the Supreme Court was markedly higher among left-wing Israelis than among those on the rght, but that there was no overall support for weakening the court’s powers.

 

Al Jazeera/S.O

 

Casualties found after shooting at Monterey Park

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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Police were responding to reports of a shooting that left multiple casualties in Monterey Park on Saturday night, according to a law enforcement source.

The number of casuInternal police communications said there had been some fatalities. The shooting took place sometime after 10 p.m. near the site of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration. Tens of thousands had gathered Saturday for the start of a two-day festival, one of the largest Lunar New Year events in the region.

Earlier in the day, crowds were enjoying skewers and shopping for Chinese food and jewelry. Saturday’s Lunar New Festival hours were scheduled from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

John, 27, who declined to give his last name, lives near the shooting site. He got home around 10 p.m. and heard about 4-5 gunshots. Then, he heard police cruisers “smashing” down the street. He went downstairs at around 11:20 p.m. to see if the shooting occurred at the Lunar New Year festival.

“My first concern was I know they’re having a Lunar New Year celebration,” he said. But according to him, the festival had already been cleaned up for the day when he arrived. He went to the scene of the shooting and saw one person being put on a stretcher. Another person had a bandage on their arm.

Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, said three people rushed into his restaurant and told Choi to lock the door. The people told him that there was a man with a machine gun in the area.

Choi said he believes the shooting took place at a dancing club in the area. Video on social media showed police and fire units swarming an area on Garvey Avenue and treating victims. Injured people were taken to multiple hospitals in the area.

 

SkyNews/S.O

 

2023: PDP Presidential Candidate pledges to complete Niger State Port

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Nigeria PDP. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to complete the Baro Baro Project if elected in the 2023 general election.

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar stated this during a Campaign rally in Niger State North Central Nigeria.

The PDP Presidential Candidate alleged that the the Multi Billion Naira Baro Port Project initiated by the PDP Administration years back could not be completed by the present APC ruling party after outsting the then PDP from Power 8 Years ago.

Atiku who further urged his supporters to vote for him and the entire PDP Candidates, advised that they should not compromise their support and loyalty to the party .

The National chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu who also called on the people of Niger state to vote out APC, said Niger state with its vast land space and arable agricultural potentials would be turned into tangible wealth for the benefit of the people of the state by Alh Atiku Abubakar.

The Director General of Atiku/ Okowa campaign organisation and Governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, also appealed to the people to vote for Atiku Abubakar to actualise the Baro Port Project abandoned by the ruling party.

Highlights of the presidential campaign rally were the presentation of flag to the governorship candidate in Niger state, Alhaji Isah Liman Kantigi and welcoming of the members of the Party.

 

N.O

Minister urges Organised Private Sector to invest in Nigerian research

Hauwa Abubakar Anaja
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The Minister of Science, technology and Innovation, Dr Adeleke Mamora has called on the Organised Private Sector to take advantage of the research results and prototypes showcased at the just concluded 2023 Science, Tech, Innovation EXPO for the socio economic development of Nigeria.
The Minister made the call when he declared the five day event closed in Abuja Nigeria’s capital.
The gathering was the 7th edition of the EXPO brought together researchers, innovators and inventors for the purpose of commercialisation.
Dr Mamora said that the government is committed to supporting the innovators as they bring their ideas to the market.
“Your contributions have been invaluable, and we are proud to showcase the talents and capabilities of our nation’s brightest minds. We encourage you to continue to pursue your ideas and innovations, as they are the driving force behind the diversification of our economy.
“We are truly impressed by the level of creativity and ingenuity on display, and we are committed to supporting these individuals as they bring their ideas to market. We believe that supporting young entrepreneurs and inventors is key to diversifying the Nigerian economy and creating new opportunities for our people” he said.
Dr Mamora noted that in as much as there is a strong interest in investing in Nigeria, there is still work to be done in creating a more conducive business environment for local entrepreneurs.
He therefore pledged the ministry’s commitment to work with the government and private sector to address the issues and attract more investments to the country.
The Minister further acknowledged the role of international partnerships in driving innovation and development in Nigeria.
“We need to remind ourselves that the role of Science, Technology and Innovation in diversifying the Nigerian economy is not a one-time event; it is a continuous process that requires the effort of all stakeholders. We must sustain the momentum, continue to support and encourage the growth of technology and innovation and also create an enabling environment for the private sector to thrive”.
The permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs Monilola Udoh noted that the EXPO is a testimony of the Ministry’s bold initiatives towards developing a sustainable and inclusive industrial growth of the economy in the years ahead.
“l wish to reiterate further that these initiatives are aimed at creating the right atmosphere for industrial growth; promoting the synergy and collaboration between the industry and academia and at the same time, strengthening the innovative skills of researchers, backed with other policy measures that encourage the patronage of Local Content such as leather & leather products, renewable energy, import substitution on chemicals, among others. At this point, we can boldly state that the Science, Technology, and Innovation Expo has provided the needed impetus for entrepreneurship development and innovation in Nigerian STI Eco-system” she said.
Highlights of the event were the presentation of awards and prizes to the best three out of each category of exhibitions from research institutions, tertiary institutions, states ministry categories, technology entrepreneur’s categories, and the Junior Engineers Technicians and Scientists JETS.
The five days event had the theme, Actualizing Effective Diversification of Nigerian Economy through Science, Technology and Innovation.”

 

 

 

 

 

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