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The chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN) has said the Commission recovered a total of N676 million between November 2023 and April 2024, and made a cumulative saving of N30 billion for the government. A breakdown of the recovery, he said, indicated that N163…

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The Federal Government has said the new minimum wage will take effect from May 1, 2024. The Minister of State Labour, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, disclosed this on Wednesday while addressing Nigerian workers at the May Day celebration in Abuja. Onyejeocha expressed regret that the new national minimum wage is not ready. She, however, said that consultation…

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A Saudi court’s decision to sentence fitness influencer Manahel al-Otaibi to 11 years in prison highlights what activists describe as a fierce crackdown on even vaguely critical online speech. In the past two years, the Saudi judiciary has “convicted and handed down lengthy prison terms on dozens of individuals for their expression on social media,”…

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When an Australian state health minister toured an urgent care clinic, she saw how busy staff treated patients in crisis — one rushed in by ambulance, another lying injured on a trolley. But all was not as it seemed during Victoria Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas’s visit last year to the clinic in the Colac heath…

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Hamascontent/uploads/2024/04/AFP__20240429__34QJ49Q__v1__Preview__PalestinianIsraelConflict-896×598.jpg” alt=”” width=”896″ height=”598″ class=”size-medium wp-image-2380215″ /> EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip on April 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP)[/caption] Hamas will respond to an Israeli…