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Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court extended interim bail Thursday for former prime minister Imran Khan in a case surrounding comments he made about a judge involved in the detention of an official in his party. The extension comes a day after a lower court gave him a week to respond to contempt charges in a separate case…
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A 45-year-old employer, Ngozi Ogunbiyi, was on Thursday docked in an Ogudu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding her employer, a microfinance bank of about N1.3million. The police charged Ogunbiyi, who resides in the Ebute-Metta area of Lagos, with obtaining money under false pretence, stealing, and forgery. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.…
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Bankrupt Sri Lanka will receive a conditional $2.9 billion bailout, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday, following a bruising economic crisis that saw the island nation’s president chased from the country. Months of acute food, fuel and medicine shortages, extended blackouts and runaway inflation have plagued the country after it ran out of dollars to…
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The Police Command in Ekiti on Thursday pledged to reinforce traffic regulations in a bid to stem incessant road accidents in the state. This is contained in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti. Abutu said the incessant road accidents especially within Ado-Ekiti, were a source of concern to the force.…
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The Kaduna State Ministry of Health on Thursday began a three-day meeting to review its Health Sector Strategic Plan, 2018-2022, to improve service delivery in the health sector. The review was supported by Partnership to Engage, Reform, and learn (PERL), a governance programme of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. PERL State Team Facilitator,…