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Lagos State Declares Four Free Days For Civil Servants To Get PVC

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared four work-free days for civil servants in the state who are yet to register or collect their...

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Nigeria

11m Nigerians Added To Voter Register, Says INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said 11 million Nigerians have been added to the voter register in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration...

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Nigeria

Buhari Moves To Fill INEC Vacancies, Nominates 19 RECS For Senate Confirmation

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a request to the House of Senate to confirm 19 nominees as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National...

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Copy Of Shakespeare’s First Folio Sells For $2.4m In New York

A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio has sold in New York for $2.4m (32m). Published in 1623, seven years after the Stratford-upon-Avon writer's death, it...

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Crude Prices Fall After OPEC+ Agrees To Raise Output Targets

Oil prices fell Monday after OPEC+ agreed to further increase its output targets from August. Exports from key producers via the Strait of Hormuz are also recovering, potentially adding to global supplies. Brent crude futures fell 41 cents, or 0.57%, to $71.71 a barrel in early trading after settling 0.45%...

Sierra Leone’s Fishermen Say Illegal Foreign Trawlers Destroying Livelihoods

On Sherbo Island off Sierra Leone's coast, local fishermen haul in their nets the traditional way — with a dozen or more hands pulling together to bring the catch ashore. But residents say hauls have been shrinking for years, and they point to one consistent cause: large...

25 Killed, 100 Injured in Sri Lanka Prison Clashes

At least 25 people have died and roughly 100 more were injured following clashes between two groups of inmates at a prison in Negombo, Sri Lanka, according to two police sources and a hospital source who spoke to Reuters. The violence broke out Sunday between convicted prisoners and...