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The Presidency has said that Nigeria’s deepwater oil projects now deliver competitive returns and the country has moved from bottom quartile of 13 indexed countries to top three. Mrs Olu Verheijen, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Energy, disclosed this in a keynote address at an Executive Session of the Energy Institute and…
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Former National Assembly lawmaker and Civil rights activist, Senator Shehu Sani, has applauded the efforts of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, to rid the country of insecurity. According to the ex- senator who represented the Kaduna Central Zone in the defunct 8th National Assembly, Ribadu has surpassed his predecessors in avowed mission of…
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Ukraine said Friday it had arrested an army officer accused of passing information about secret military operations to Russia. The SBU security services said the accused, a lieutenant colonel, was recruited by Russia before its 2022 invasion and “activated” earlier this year “to pass on plans for the Defence Forces’ combat operations behind enemy lines.”…
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Spanish authorities seized four tonnes of cocaine from a fishing boat off the Canary Islands and arrested its 15 crew, officials said Friday, the latest such operation in the region. The Panamanian-flagged ship was intercepted on Tuesday some 500 nautical miles west of the Atlantic archipelago off northwest Africa, the interior ministry said in a…
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The United Nations (UN) warned on Friday that renewed Russian targeting of Ukraine’s already devastated energy infrastructure this winter could cause severe hardship and spur new mass movements of people. “If they were to target the energy sector again, this could be a tipping point,” warned Matthias Schmale, the United Nations’ resident humanitarian coordinator in…