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Silicon Valley Bank’s Toronto branch has been seized by the Canadian banking regulator amid the collapse |  World news
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Silicon Valley Bank’s Toronto branch has been seized by the Canadian banking regulator amid the collapse | World news

Canadian authorities have taken permanent control of the assets of the only branch of Silicon Valley Bank or SVB in the country. That branch is in Toronto. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions or OSFI announced the measure, after taking temporary control of the Santa Clara bank,...

2023 Elections: Atiku, PDP Withdraw Fresh Application Against INEC
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2023 Elections: Atiku, PDP Withdraw Fresh Application Against INEC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn a fresh application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the presidential election that held on February 25. Both PDP and...

North Korea launched a ballistic missile ahead of the South Korea-Japan meeting  World news
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North Korea launched a ballistic missile ahead of the South Korea-Japan meeting World news

North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile in a show of military power on Thursday just hours before the leaders of South Korea and Japan are due to meet at a Tokyo summit expected to be overshadowed by North Korea’s nuclear threats. The launch, the North’s first ICBM test in a month and third missile...

Twitter users responded after reporting reduced mental health crisis during Covid |  World news
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Twitter users responded after reporting reduced mental health crisis during Covid | World news

After a report published in the British Medical Journal, led by researchers at McGill University in Canada, went viral for saying that the mental health crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic may not have been ‘ like’ as thought, people have continued since then. Conflict, sharing their most “inhibited shutdown behavior” during the pandemic as they...

Former Imo Commissioner Bags Three-Year Jail Term For Diverting N180m
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Former Imo Commissioner Bags Three-Year Jail Term For Diverting N180m

A State High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, has sentenced a former Commissioner for Transport under the Rochas Okorocha administration, Laz Okoroafor-Anyanwu, to three years imprisonment having been found guilty of a three-count charge bothering on fraud, looting public funds and stealing. Delivering the judgment in Court 14, the presiding Judge, Justice...

Alleged N304.1m Fraud: Court Admits More Evidence Against Ex-NIMASA DG, Two Others
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Alleged N304.1m Fraud: Court Admits More Evidence Against Ex-NIMASA DG, Two Others

Justice Tijani Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, admitted in evidence several documents tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against a former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Haruna Baba Jauro, and two others. Jauro alongside Dr. Dauda...

The US recognizes the McMahon Line as the international border between China and India  World news
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The US recognizes the McMahon Line as the international border between China and India World news

The United States recognizes the McMahon Line as the international border between China and Arunachal Pradesh, according to a Senate resolution of a division that sees Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India. “At a time when China continues to pose grave and cumulative threats to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, it is important...