The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has declared that the old Naira Notes of N200, N500 and N1000 have ceased to be legal tender in Nigeria since the 10th of February, 2023. The declaration was made by the Branch Controller of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Bauchi, Haladu Idris Andaza while briefing Journalists on...
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Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have proposed their “DREAM Act” amnesty that would provide green cards and, eventually, naturalized American citizenship to nearly two million illegal aliens. Graham and Durbin, who hold powerful positions on the Senate Judiciary Committee, reintroduced the amnesty after repeatedly proposing the plan since 2017. According to current...
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Key pointsTurkish officials have announced investigations and arrests linked to the construction and development business.The UN admits it has 'failed' Syria, with only a single crossing open for UN aid supplies.The death toll in both countries has risen above 33,000.Rescuers have pulled more survivors from the rubble, nearly a week after one of the worst...
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Getty Images Former NBA players Keyon Dooling and Alan Anderson have been sentenced to prison for their roles in defrauding the NBA's health and welfare plan. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced Dooling to 30 months in prison and Anderson to 24 months in prison, per an announcement from the U.S. Attorney's Office.In October...
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As legal sports gambling proliferates, the number of Americans betting on the Super Bowl and the total amount they're wagering is surging — although most of the action is still off the books. An estimated 1 in 5 American adults will make some sort of bet, laying out a whopping $16 billion, or twice as...
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Twitter 2.0 continues to evolve in ways that nobody could have predicted. Mostly because they’re bad, but nevertheless, maybe there’s a method to the madness that we can’t see. Or maybe not. The latest update from Elon and Co. is that Twitter is switching off SMS-based two-factor authentication for all non Twitter Blue subscribers from...
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Donald Trump’s legal team recently turned over a folder bearing classified markings to the Justice Department that it said was found at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.Trump's lawyers told the the Justice Department it came from Mar-a-Lago, so they are going under that assumption, the official...
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Costa Rica announced an all-out ban on the fishing of hammerhead sharks, specifically the smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena), scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) and great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran).Despite being critically endangered, hammerhead sharks have been bought and sold in Costa Rica for years, with demand being driven by shark fin soup.Although some conservation efforts have been...
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Former attorney general Avichai Mandelblit has described the government’s proposed sweeping and drastic overhaul of the legal and judicial system as “regime change” that would “eliminate the independence of Israel’s legal system from end to end.” Mandelblit also accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of advancing the overhaul in order to bring his ongoing criminal trial...
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Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 16 Feb 2023 3:58PM · Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail says eight people from two local employment agencies found to be involved in overseas job scams are arrested during a raid by police. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, February 16, 2023. TWO local employment agencies were found...
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