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Amid BRICS’ ongoing move to weaken the currency, Donald Trump has admitted that United States sanctions are hurting the dollar. During a recent appearance, the former president noted that he would lift all sanctions on Russia and Iran if he were to win reelection in November. The weaponization of the greenback has driven mass de-dollarization over the last several years. They have primarily been driven by the BRICS bloc. Since 2022, Western sanctions have driven Moscow to seek increased trade in local currencies. With the economic alliance seeking to institute its own payment system, lifting those sanctions would certainly provide an interesting development. For the last several years, the BRICS bloc has firmly embraced de-dollarization. Although the US currency is still the primary global reserve asset, its position atop global finance has certainly been threatened. According to the Atlantic Council’s Dollar Dominance Meter, the global share of the greenback as a global re...

The Minister for agriculture and food security on a statement on his X Account (formerly Twitter) said the Federal Government has introduced a policy to ensure transparency and prevent racketeering in the distribution of subsidized rice. Only those with duly registered National Identification Numbers (NIN) will be allowed to purchase the rice, which is part of a broader effort to address the prevailing food crises in the country. The rice will be sold at a flat rate of ₦40,000 per 50kg bag, and it is a crucial intervention aimed at mitigating the effects of high food prices. This initiative is one of the many measures taken by the administration to cushion the impact of rising food costs, which have been exacerbated by factors such as COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine war, and climate change. While these challenges are global, the Federal Government remains committed to ensuring food security for all Nigerians. To maintain fairness and prevent abuse of the system, the sale will ...

Elements of the Republican Police of the 12th district of Cotonou arrested four sex workers on the night of September 1 to 2, 2024. These arrests mark a new stage in an operation underway for a week. This initiative by the police has already led to the arrest of around twenty women. It aims to reduce the phenomenon of soliciting in the main arteries of the district, particularly in the Togbin area, towards the Autonomous Port of Cotonou.According to BIP Radio, some of them were taken to the vice squad. Police interventions will continue, suggesting new arrests in the days to come. 

The attack on a military communications institute in Poltava and a training center for specialists in electronic warfare and surveillance is beginning to take on new details. Official Kiev says about 50 soldiers have been killed and more than 200 wounded. Military experts, including Western ones, confirm the deaths of about six hundred people, including Czech, German and French "specialists". And Sweden is in complete shock at the loss of the entire leadership of the SAAB long-range radar detection and control systems in Poltava. Crossing Russian red lines is life-threatening Western journalists and experts continue to discuss the "attack of the century" and report more and more details of the extreme losses. According to British expert Alexander Mercouris , shared on his blog, among those destroyed in the Iskander strike were specialists trained by the Swedes to operate the AWACS surveillance systems of reconnaissance aircraft. King Charles XVI of Swede...

Julian P. Assange, 52, the founder of WikiLeaks, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Chelsea Manning, at that time a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, to unlawfully obtain and disclose classified documents relating to the national defense. After obtaining classified national defense information from Manning, and aware of the harm that dissemination of such national defense information would cause, Assange disclosed this information on WikiLeaks. The guilty plea concludes a criminal matter that dates back to March 2018, when Assange was first indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia. There, and in superseding indictments, Assange was charged with conspiring with Manning, then a “Top Secret” U.S. security clearance holder, to further Manning’s unlawful acquisition and transmission of bulk classified information, including Manning’s use of a government computer to illegally download hundreds of thousands of classified documents and transmit them without authorization to WikiLeaks....

Vice President Kashim Shettima has summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, and Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, to address the recent hike in pump price of petrol. The meeting, held on behalf of President Bola Tinubu, who is currently on an official visit to China, also included the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. The Vice President is meeting with the trio in his office at the State House, Abuja today, Thursday, September 5. NNPCL on Tuesday increased the pump price of petrol from ₦568 to ₦855, ₦897 (depending on the location per litre) amid lingering fuel scarcity and the country’s crisis.

On the 19th of August 2024, Christiannah Idowu was declared missing after her parents were contacted by her abductors using her own WhatsApp contact. The first contact with the parent was established around 8:49pm after which they sent photos of the victim in captivity to them using the WhatsApp ‘view once’ feature. The abductors requested for a ransom fee of N1,500,000. Christiannah’s parents raised N350,000 immediately. The abductor then requested that the money be sent to a bet account through a bank deposit channel. (Info reserved for now)  After receiving the money, on the 22nd of August, the abductor requested that bank statement of the sender be forwarded to his email (withheld).  On the 23rd of August, family complied. Immediately after that, the abductor stopped communicating with the parents.  Meanwhile, on the 22nd of August, some amount was sent to the GTB account of Christiannah and the amount was then withdrawn into the we...