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The Nigerian Naira has been projected to depreciate to N1,804 per dollar at the official market in 2025. This comes against the N1,500 per dollar benchmark proposed in the 2025 budget before the National Assembly. Over the weekend, the Naira gained at the official market to close at N1,534 per dollar and N1,650 at the black market. According to a …

The US House Ethics Committee found evidence that former Representative, Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for s3x or drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to the panel’s report on the Florida Republican released Monday, December 23. The committee concluded in its bombshell document that Gaetz …

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has called on Amnesty International to retract its report on the alleged killing of #EndBadGovernance protesters, describing the report as “inaccurate and misleading.”   Speaking at a media briefing on Sunday, Muyiwa Adejobi, the force spokesperson, addressed the findings in Amnesty International’s November 2024 report titled ‘Bloody August: Nigerian government’s violent crackdown on #EndBadGovernance protests.’ …

A total of $2.2bn (£1.76bn) in cryptocurrencies has been stolen this year, with North Korean hackers accounting for more than half that figure, according to a new study. Research firm Chainalysis says hackers affiliated with the reclusive state stole $1.3bn of digital currencies – more than double last year’s haul. Some of the thefts appear to be linked to North …

Getty Images Amazon pushes its US warehouse workers to fulfill orders at speeds that could cause high rates of injury despite being aware of the risks, an investigation led by Senator Bernie Sanders has found. The findings, following an 18-month probe of the firm, support claims that workers and labour campaigners have made about the company for years. The report …

A Nigerian nurse residing abroad has advised Nigerians working abroad to always report any uncivil act done to them at their workplaces.    In a post shared online, the Nurse said if the roles were reversed, the people they are trying to protect would report them. She said that Nigerians residing abroad should leave the notion ”Let God fight for …

Approximately 85,000 women and girls were intentionally killed in 2023, with 60 per cent—over 51,000—falling victim to intimate partners or family members.  This is according to a new report by UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.  This equates to one woman or girl being killed every 10 minutes.  The report was released on Monday, November …

The Enugu State Police Command, through its Anti-Kidnapping Tactical Squad, have arrested two suspects identified as Ikechukwu Okoye (male, aged 33) and Juliet Ogbodo (female, aged 39), both of Onuorie-Obuno in Akpugo Community, Nkanu West Local Government Area, accused of the kidnapping, m#rder, and b#rying of Mrs. Mary Nwatu, a 70-year-old woman, in a shallow grave sometimes in September 2024. …

Payment app PayPal experienced a brief outage worldwide on Thursday, it confirmed. It said in a post on its service status page it was experiencing “a system issue” that affecting multiple PayPal Products – including account withdrawal and express checkout. The company said the technical issue was swiftly resolved. However, even a brief outage was enough to cause problems for …

Reuters Google has said it would harm consumers and businesses if it is forced to sell Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will propose the measure to a judge on Wednesday, Bloomberg has reported. Judge Amit Mehta ruled Google operates an online search monopoly in August, and has been considering what remedies or …