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More than 200 elephants and hundreds of zebras and gnus have died in Kenya’s worst drought in four decades, the country’s tourism minister said on Friday.
The crisis has affected nearly half of Kenya’s regions and at least four million out of its 50 million people.
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Donald Trump last night told a rally crowd in Sioux City, Iowa, that he is likelier than ever to run for president in 2024 – but stopped short of making a cast-iron commitment to do so.
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is recuperating from a gunshot wound to his leg following Thursday's failed assassination attempt.
Meanwhile, Khan's supporters have vowed that the attempt will not derail their "long march" bid to return to power.
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Twitter founder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey has launched a new social media platform, ‘Bluesky’.
This is coming barely a week after a business magnate and investor, Elon Musk, acquired Twitter.
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Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President @ProfOsinbajo yesterday approved the following memo for @FMWHNIG:
- Urgent repairs and special general maintenance for the construction of Gorgaram - Guri Road, Yobe state;
- Rehabilitation of the 90km Buni Gari - Gulani Road, Yobe state; and
- Reconstruction of Water Corporation Drive and Trinity Avenue in Victoria Island, Lagos State.
(All with a completion period of 36 months)
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to summon an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council following the decision of the @NigeriaGov to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022.
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Kaduna State government said on Friday that it vaccinated more than five million persons against COVID-19, representing 103 per cent fully vaccinated target coverage of 4.9 million persons.
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The United States attorney’s office in the central district of California says Hushpuppi, the self-confessed international fraudster, has not been sentenced.
https://twitter.com/OJB_Online/status/1588663261096181760?t=X1Duj6MR8HwvIaVGx6p53g&s=19
The naira on Friday exchanged at 445.50 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, an appreciation of 0.06 per cent, compared with 445.75 to the dollar it exchanged on Thursday.
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The kidnapped wife of the Head of Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad, Apollos Dandaura, has been rescued.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Corps spokesperson, Olusola Odumosu, on Friday.
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