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Nigeria pays off IMF’s $3.4 billion emergency loan
Date: 2025-05-09 10:55:47 GMT - Austria - Africa - SN:15 - ID:11171457
ABUJA, May 9 (MENA) - Nigeria has paid off $3.4 billion borrowed from the International Monetary Fund during the Covid-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported. The IMF granted Nigeria emergency assistance in April 2020 as the pandemic shuttered ....
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OPEN// Nigeria's Kwara state trains 60 healthcare providers on emergency obstetrics
Date: 2025-05-08 20:32:05 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:71 - ID:11171094
ABUJA, May 8 (MENA) - Nigeria's Kwara government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has trained 60 secondary healthcare providers on Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC). The program is ....
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OPEN// Nigeria's NBSA, Values Africa to mobilize 10,000 voluntary blood donors
Date: 2025-05-07 20:59:22 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:68 - ID:11169595
ABUJA, May 7 (MENA) - Nigeria's National Blood Service Agency (NBSA) has partnered with Values Africa, a pan-African media and advocacy organization, to mobilize 10,000 voluntary blood donors across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The ....
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OPEN// Nigerian defense minister attends high-level meeting in China to bolster Nigeria’s defense capabilities
Date: 2025-05-06 21:06:26 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:91 - ID:11167902
ABUJA, May 6 (MENA) - Nigerian Minister of State for Defense Bello Matawalle is participating in a high-level security meeting with a leading Chinese manufacturer of advanced anti-terrorism and high-tech defense equipment, said an official at the ....
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UN: Sudan drone attacks raise fears for civilian safety and aid efforts
Date: 2025-05-06 10:26:24 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:26 - ID:11166798
NEW YORK, May 6 (MENA) - The UN is sounding the alarm over escalating violence in Sudan following drone strikes near Port Sudan airport reportedly carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “These attacks appear to be the latest ....
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OPEN// Quitting Nigeria won’t clear Meta of liability – FCCPC
Date: 2025-05-04 20:25:35 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:63 - ID:11164866
ABUJA, May 4 (MENA) - Nigeria's Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has stated that WhatsApp’s threat to exit Nigeria following a recent regulatory order will not absolve the company from any legal consequences. FCCPC’s ....
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Gabon to swear in ex-junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema as president
Date: 2025-05-03 08:17:42 GMT - Gabon - Africa - SN:8 - ID:11162662
LIBREVILLE, May 3 (MENA) - Gabon's President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema swept polls last month with nearly 95 percent of the vote will be sworn in Saturday, France24 said. The general and former junta leader officially takes the presidential ....
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IOM deputy chief: Escalating displacement crisis in DRC demands urgent collective solutions
Date: 2025-05-02 11:01:26 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:18 - ID:11161893
KINSHASA, May 2 (MENA) - During a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), International Organization for Migration (IOM)'s Deputy Director General for Management and Reform SungAh Lee called for urgent and sustained action to alleviate ....
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OPEN// Nigeria: UNDP trains teachers, pupils on green energy technologies
Date: 2025-05-01 18:47:24 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:47 - ID:11161548
ABUJA, May 1 (MENA) - The United Nations Development Program's Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program (UNDP GEF SGP) said it has trained no fewer than 200 teachers and 1,000 pupils across Nigeria on green energy technologies. In an ....
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29 people killed, injured in explosive device explosion in northeastern Nigeria
Date: 2025-04-29 10:38:44 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:9 - ID:11157819
ABUJA, April 29 (MENA) - At least 26 people were killed and three others injured in an explosive device explosion Tuesday as their truck was passing on the side of a road in northeastern Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon. Nigerian independent ....
