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[Vanguard] President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, seeking approval to borrow a fresh $516,333,070 loan.

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The Tiwa Savage Music Foundation (TSMF), in partnership with Berklee College of Music, will this week deliver the first full instalment of Berklee in Nigeria:

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- As banks, financial institutions, telecommunications firms and payment service providers (PSPs) increasingly adopt stablecoins as core infrastructure for treasury management and cross-border payments, regulatory defensibility is emerging as a critical priority.

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[Daily Trust] Prof. Joash Amupitan, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said he accepted the responsibility of leading Nigeria's electoral body only after "a clear divine conviction that God would strengthen and help him in office".

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[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe welcomes more investment in mineral processing and refining as the country shifts from exporting raw minerals to domestic value addition, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said Wednesday.

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[Ghanaian Times] Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has engaged South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation over reported xenophobic attacks on Ghanaians.

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As Sierra Leone prepares for its next national election in 2028, political parties across the country have begun setting strategies and preparing to select

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[New Era] Abuja -- Nigeria is facing renewed violence from armed groups as the country heads towards elections, with assaults in the northeast killing high-ranking officers and analysts warning of the entrenchment of foreign jihadists in the west.

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Lusaka has been in a months-long dispute with his family over where he should be buried. Lungu died in South Africa last year.

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[Premium Times] The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai, a joint task force in the North-east, have foiled a coordinated terror attack on Kukareta in Yobe State, killing at least 24 insurgents and recovering a large cache of arms and ammunition.

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[Liberian Observer] The government, through the Ministry of Health (MOH), has launched a high-level policy process aimed at tackling one of the most persistent challenges in its healthcare system: how to sustainably finance and retain the country's frontline health workers serving remote communities.

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[Liberian Observer] The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector is drifting toward a systemic crisis, with new findings suggesting that what began as a survival livelihood for rural populations is rapidly mutating into an unregulated, semi-industrial gold rush--one that now threatens not only the environment and local communities, but also the country's economic stability and governance institutions.

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The Mauritius Financial Crimes Commission (FCC) has reported the seizure of ill-got assets worth Rs 160 million (approximately $3.4 million) and the

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[WFP] In eastern Chad, WFP helps refugees and host communities move from emergency aid to self-reliance through farming, livelihoods and resilience initiatives.

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[Ghanaian Times] The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has opened nominations for its polling station executive elections nationwide, marking a key step in the party's internal reorganisation ahead of future political activities.

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[Ghanaian Times] The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has been appointed as a Secretariat Member of the African High Level Ministerial Committee (AHLMC) to help lead the reform of the global health architecture in a way that benefits the continent and its citizens.

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[Vanguard] A Nigerian national based in the United States, Opeyemi Olujobi, and his wife, Jennie Davidson, are facing a potential combined sentence of up to 50 years in prison after being arrested over an alleged large-scale credit card fraud operation in New York.

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[Vanguard] *Chinese patient stable; no sign of community spread, authorities insist

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[Vanguard] A Nigerian-born fraud convict and United States permanent resident, Emuobosan Emanuella Hall, has been declared wanted after failing to turn herself in to begin serving an eight-year prison sentence linked to a romance scam, a move that could attract an additional decade behind bars.

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Raised in Katlehong, on the east side of Johannesburg, Mordecai introduces Marato Fela, which translates to “love only” — a fitting expression of the

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[New Times] Africa's domestic capital base has reached a scale that now exceeds external financing flows over the past decade, marking a turning point in how the continent funds its growth and industrialisation, according to the Africa Finance Corporation's (AFC) State of Africa's Infrastructure Report 2026.