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NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has marked international women's day by rescinding an earlier decision to reject three gender equality bills which had earlier on in the week failed to pass as part of the ongoing amendments to the 1999 constitution.

AMERICAN personal care product giant Kimberly Clark has opened a new $100m plant in Ikorodu in Lagos State in a major foreign direct investment project aimed at allowing the company to manufacture products for the domestic market locally.

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YORUBA Nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has been released from custody in neighbouring Republic of Benin and handed over to Professor Banji Akintoye the president of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide.

FORMER vice president Atiku Abubakar's American University of Nigeria (AUN) has stepped up the recruitment of some of the recent Ukrainian returnees inviting them to consider enrolling at the institution rather than return abroad.

NIGERIA'S federal government has expressed its disapproval of the ongoing volunteering of the country's citizens putting themselves forward to join the Ukrainian army so they are eligible to fight in the ongoing war with Russia.

TWO of the co-defendants arraigned before a federal high court in Abuja today alongside Assistant Police Commissioner Abba Kyari on drug running charges pleaded guilty to importing 21.35kg of cocaine.

Mr Kyari and six others charged with dealing in 17.55kg of cocaine by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Today, the case was heard in court and Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne, both pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into Nigeria.

FORMER Super Eagles striker Benedict Akwuegbu has been listed by Anglia Ruskin University in the UK as being among its top achievers in recognition of the work he has put in as part of his mental health nurse degree course.

Akwuegbu, affectionately called the Austrian Bomber by his fans, enrolled in the university two years ago. He studied health social care in his first year before switching to his current mental health nursing course.

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[1] Battle tanks 
[2] Assault rifles 
[3] Multi-purpose machine guns 
[4] Rocket-propelled grenades 
[5] Attack helicopters 
[6] Fighter jets 
[7] Bombers 
[8] Aircraft carriers 
[9] Submarines 
[10] Artillery pieces 

SAUDI Arabia has lifted its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African nations which was introduced on December 8 last year in response to the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa.