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BREAKING: US visa restrictions on ECOWAS countries threaten regional prosperity — Minister
Punch
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June 18, 2025
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Economic Community of West African States Mediation and Security Council, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has raised concerns over the apparent inclusion of all ECOWAS member states in a new wave of United...
FG Cancels ₦35 Billion Benin-Sapele-Warri Road Contract
Naija News
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June 18, 2025
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, confirmed this development during a briefing following a meeting with the Chief Executives of GELD Construction Ltd and SKECC Nigeria Ltd regarding the delays in the execution of the Benin-Sapele-Warri road...
FG orders termination of Benin-Sapele-Warri road contract over non-performance
Tribune Online
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June 18, 2025
The Federal Government through the Minister of Works, David Umahi, has ordered the termination of the contract with Levant Construction Ltd on the reconstruction of Benin-Sapele-Warri Road (Section 1: Benin-Imasabor) being executed under Road...
Umahi terminates Benin–Warri road contract, seeks refund
Punch
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June 18, 2025
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has terminated the contract awarded to Levant Construction Limited over its failure to deliver on the Benin–Sapele–Warri road project. The road, a major federal highway, is being reconstructed under the Road...
Edo Sickle Cell Club Seeks Media Partnership, Policy Support
ITV
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June 18, 2025
As the world prepares to commemorate World Sickle Cell Day on June 19, members of the Edo Sickle Cell Club, Edo State Chapter, have begun advocacy visits to key stakeholders in a bid to raise awareness and strengthen support for persons living...
Okpebholo: Private, Commercial Houses Built Along Waterways in Benin GRA to Be Demolished
This Day
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June 18, 2025
•Engages experts to understudy flood-prone areas AdibeEmenyonu in Benin City Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has disclosed plans by his administration to begin demolition of private and commercial houses built along waterways to pave...
Flood: Okpebholo vows to demolish houses, property on waterways in Benin City
Daily Post
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June 17, 2025
The Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has threatened to demolish houses and properties built in the Government Reservation Areas in Benin City. DAILY POST reports that the Governor, however, assured that compensation would be paid to property...
Moving Markets: How Women Traders Transform the Nigeria-Benin Border Economy
Daily Trust
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June 16, 2025
At the buzzing frontier town of Idiroko, located in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, commerce flows with an intensity that mirrors the unyielding spirit of the women who drive it. Positioned strategically along Nigeria’s border with the...
Philippine Ambassador Presents Letter Of Credence As Permanent Representative To The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
MENAFN
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June 17, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The Philippine Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria Mr. Mersole J. Mellejor presented his Letter of Credence signed by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo, designating him as Philippine Permanent...
AP News: Trump administration demands action from 36 countries to avoid travel ban
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has given 36 countries, most of them in Africa, a Wednesday deadline to commit to improve vetting or face a ban on their citizens visiting the United States. A weekend diplomatic cable sent by the State...
MoneyBadger secures R7m to bolster crypto adoption
ITWeb
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July 15, 2025
Carel van Wyk, CEO, MoneyBadger. South African Bitcoin and crypto payments solution provider MoneyBadger has closed a $400 000 (roughly R7 million) pre-seed funding round. The funds will be used to drive up adoption of Bitcoin and crypto among...
OBITUARY: From khaki to kaftan — Buhari, the change patron who said he belonged to everybody and nobody
The Cable
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July 14, 2025
He walked like a whisper through a marketplace of noise, unshaken by applause, unbent by insult. The Buhari in us rises early, eats humbly, and acts when both heart and head agree. He wore power like plain clothes, no embroidery, no excess, only...
America’s Plan To Send Deportees To Africa Needs A Rethink
Front Page Africa
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July 14, 2025
THINGS ARE STILL a bit murky amid chatters and uncertainty surrounding a purported plan by the United States of America to offload scores of deportees, many of who are victims of the country’s aggressive crackdown on immigrants and a ragedy policy...
The Canadian Government Just Slapped The World's Hottest Country With A Travel Advisory
The Travel
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July 15, 2025
The Canadian government's travel advisory comes in four levels: Level 1 (exercise normal security precautions), Level 2 (exercise a high degree of caution), Level 3 (avoid all non-essential travel), and Level 4 (avoid all travel). The U.S. is...
THE REVIEW OF THE BOOK TITLED ‘THE RISE AND FALL OF INDIGENOUS CHIEFTAINCY INSTITUTION IN THE NIGER DELTA,’ AUTHORED BY...
Newswriter
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July 15, 2025
Samuel Marshall The review, authored by Samuel Marshall, a renowned cartoonist, book illustrator, and editor, was composed in June 2025. INTRODUCTION The book provides an insightful, non-fictional historiographical analysis of the rise and...
Day Buhari Wept at Aso Villa
This Day
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July 14, 2025
FEMI ADESINA All that some people knew about former President, Muhammadu Buhari, was his stern nature, which they mistook for wickedness. But the man had his soft side, which you never got to know except when you got close to him. Let me tell the...
Looted art: the battle for looted treasures
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 13, 2025
Centuries after Europe’s colonial scramble, the fight to reclaim looted masterpieces, from West African “talking drums” to Greece’s Parthenon Marbles, has become a diplomatic flash-point. Here’s where the biggest restitution battles stand today....
US Amb. Bridgewater to launch memoir, ‘Bridging Troubled Waters’
Business Ghana
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Three-time United States Ambassador, Pamela E. Bridgewater has announced the launch of her anticipated memoir, Bridging Troubled Waters, written to include anecdotes from her success stories against all odds, and the key figures in her life...
3 projects exemplifying the uptake of digital solutions in Africa
ESI Africa
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July 14, 2025
Beninese, Nigerian and Kenyan projects have been selected among The Elites nominees into how digitalisation forms the backbone of smart solutions, changing the way that people in Africa interact with power, energy and water. Planning and...
‘‘A Quieter and More Corrosive Democratic Threat in Africa’’
Business Ghana
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It is well-known that democracy in Africa faces increasing challenges from military coups, electoral violence, and unconstitutional power grabs. However, a recent DemCap Report, in collaboration with the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) in...