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Kyiv, Moscow swap 218 prisoners, together with 108 Ukrainian girls

Kyiv, Moscow swap 218 prisoners, together with 108 Ukrainian girls

1/2 Russia on Monday released 108 Ukrainian prisoners of war on Monday in a prisoner swap between the two countries. Photo courtesy of Andriy Yermak/Facebook Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Kyiv and Moscow carried out a…

Asia shares rise as reduction rally builds after UK U-turn

Asia shares rise as reduction rally builds after UK U-turn

Please try another search Economy 1 hour ago (Oct 18, 2022 02:27AM ET) © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past in front of an electric monitor displaying the Japanese Nikkei share average in Tokyo,…

Wall Road rally throws highlight on experiences from Tesla, Netflix

Wall Road rally throws highlight on experiences from Tesla, Netflix

Please try another search Economy 5 hours ago (Oct 17, 2022 10:11PM ET) © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., October…

Greenback checks 32-year peak to yen; Aussie, kiwi rise on charge bets

Greenback checks 32-year peak to yen; Aussie, kiwi rise on charge bets

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken July 17, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar lost ground against sterling and other major peers on…

FDA battles pharmaceutical firm to tug being pregnant drug

FDA battles pharmaceutical firm to tug being pregnant drug

The Food and Drug Administration is holding advisory committee meetings to force Covis Pharma to stop selling the pregnancy drug Makena because the agency says the injection does not work. Photo courtesy of Max Pixel…

Extortion: Immigration Chief ‘withdraws’ personnel at Lagos airport

Extortion: Immigration Chief ‘withdraws’ personnel at Lagos airport

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Isah Idris, on Monday, ordered the investigation of a case of extortion allegedly perpetrated by officers of the NIS at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State. The…

Nnamdi Kanu: ‘We’ve served DSS, AGF A’ Court docket judgment’ 

Nnamdi Kanu: ‘We’ve served DSS, AGF A’ Court docket judgment’ 

…IPOB leader jubilates in prison The legal team representing the detained leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday have an insight on how he received the news of his freedom by…

BREAKING: Benzema wins 66th Ballon d’Or award

BREAKING: Benzema wins 66th Ballon d’Or award

Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema has won the 2022 Player of the Year Ballon d’Or award in Paris on Monday night. This would be the forward’s first Ballon d’Or of his career. The 34-year-old had never…

Lewandowski wins prime scorer award

Lewandowski wins prime scorer award

Robert Lewandowski received the award for last season’s top goalscorer, renamed the Gerd Mueller Trophy, for the second straight year at the Ballon d’Or ceremony on Monday. The 34-year-old, who joined Barcelona from Bayern Munich…

Alexia Putellas wins second successive ladies’s Ballon d’Or

Alexia Putellas wins second successive ladies’s Ballon d’Or

Spain’s Alexia Putellas won the women’s Ballon d’Or for the second year running on Monday, the reward coming after a season in which she was the top scorer as her club Barcelona reached the Champions…

Lagos state authorities to launch a enterprise capital fund

Lagos state authorities to launch a enterprise capital fund

On October 11, while speaking to African reporters on the sideline of the just-concluded GITEX 2022 in Dubai, the special advisor to the Lagos state governor on innovation and technology, Olatunbosun Alake, said that the…

BNPL: MTN indicators with Intelligra to promote telephones on credit score to Nigerians

BNPL: MTN indicators with Intelligra to promote telephones on credit score to Nigerians

Africa has the youngest population in the world. Yet, access to the internet remains a huge problem for millions of people on the continent. While this could be attributed to the region’s high cost of…