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Moscow police raid homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Daily Tracker Feb 10, 2021

Russian security services raided the homes of several Jehovah’s Witnesses in Moscow on Wednesday, in an ongoing crackdown on the US-based religious movement. Moscow outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017, labelling it an…

News

Zulum, others arrive in Cameroon, to repatriate 9,800 Nigerian refugees

Daily Tracker Feb 10, 2021

Nigeria’s representatives have arrived in Marwa, in Cameroon for the repatriation of 9,800 Nigerian refugees. The 9,800 are those in the first phase of the repatriation from Cameroon out of 46,000 Nigerians taking refuge in…

Foreign

Ghana shuts parliament after 168 lawmakers, officials contract COVID-19

Daily Tracker Feb 10, 2021

Ghana’s parliament on Tuesday shut down for at least three weeks over a surge in cases of Covid-19 among lawmakers and parliamentary staff. The speaker of the house, Alban Bagbin, announced the legislature will be in recess until…

Foreign

Trump impeachment: Senate paves way for speedy trial of ex-president

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins on Tuesday as Senate leaders agreed a rapid timetable. The former president is charged with "inciting insurrection" in a speech to supporters ahead of the deadly riot at the…

Foreign

Sudan PM picks former rebel leaders in new cabinet

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has named a new cabinet which includes seven former rebel leaders who were part of a peace deal signed in October. Mr Hamdok dissolved the previous cabinet on Sunday to form a more inclusive…

News

FG planning to replace BVN with NIN says Pantami

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

Plans are underway to replace Bank Verification Numbers with the National Identity Numbers, the federal government said on Monday. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, gave the indication while…

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Maradona death probe widens to include nurses, psychologist

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

A psychologist and two nurses who helped care for football legend Diego Maradona before his death have been added to a widening involuntary manslaughter probe, a judicial source told local media Monday. Maradona died of a heart…

Business

Petrol may sell for N200 as landing cost rises to N180

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

Users of Premium Motor Spirit, (PMS) may have to gird their loins for a possible astronomical increase in the pump price of the product if stories coming from the global oil prices are anything to go by. It is feared that the…

News

Reps loses another member, Ossy Prestige

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

The lawmaker representing Aba North/South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Ossy Prestige, is dead. He reportedly died of a protracted illness on Monday. The lawmaker, who was elected on the platform of the…

News

N7.1bn fraud: Reprieve as Court halts Kalu’s retrial over N7.1bn alleged fraud

Daily Tracker Feb 9, 2021

Temporary reprieve came the way of Senate Chief Whip and former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu as the Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo stopped his re-arraignnment in an alleged N7.1bn money…

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