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Daily Watch – Nigeria battles diphtheria outbreak, Mali postpones presidential election

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited and oil majors on Monday agreed to cut the time for concluding contract talks from three years to not more than six months (180 days), to speed up investment projects in the country. The new agreement signed with the companies, including Shell, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies, intends to make doing business in Nigeria easier. "So efficiency is going to be instilled in the process and will deliver more production," said Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, NNPC Vice President (upstream), after a signing ceremony attended by the heads of the subsidiaries of the oil majors. President Bola Tinubu is in a drive to increase Nigeria's oil output. The presidency said international oil firms had committed $13.5 billion investments in the short term to raise production to 2.1 million barrels per day by December 2024. The Nigerian government confirmed that 7,202 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in 18 states across the country. This was disclosed in a press statement jointly signed by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, among other partners. The government said it confirmed 7,202 ...
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Daily Watch – 40 abducted in Kaduna church, Explosion kills 7 Nigerien soldiers

About 40 people were abducted during a church service at ...
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Daily Watch – Bandit threat shutters Zamfara market, Mali junta pins referendum for June

Dan Karami, a notorious banditry kingpin operating in Katsina and ...
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Daily Watch – Army rescues 2 Chibok girls, Kenyan PMI plummets

The Nigerian Army said it had rescued two additional girls ...
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Daily Watch – Senate plugs ₦23tn Ways and Means to national debt, German troops leave Mali

The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to restructure ...
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Daily Watch – Abuja to lose $10bn to geopolitical tensions, Ghana ‘incentivises’ illegal mining

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Nigeria could lose ...
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Daily Watch – Manufacturing jobs plunge 21%, UN to resume operations in Sudan

Bandits have released 74 children out of more than 80 ...
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Daily Watch – FG told to halt subsidy removal, 33 Burkinabe soldiers killed

The National Economic Council (NEC), on Thursday, urged the FG ...
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Daily Watch – 6m Nigerian kids unvaccinated, Ghana Eurobond investors receive payments

Five Nigerian soldiers died after their vehicle hit a mine ...
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Daily Watch – Nigeria’s oil reserves drop a touch, SA to quit ICC

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says as of ...
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Daily Watch – 13 million Nigerians ‘will get poorer,’ Ghana’s reserves thin out

Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji, last Saturday, neutralised seven terrorists, ...
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Daily Watch – AKK financiers pull out over contract inflation, Ghana’s economy grows 3.1%

Eight schoolgirls have escaped from kidnappers in Kaduna State two ...
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Daily Watch – INEC gives Adamawa to Fintiri, Sudan rivals agree to ceasefire

Electronic payment transactions hit ₦123.8 trillion in the first three ...
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Daily Watch – Nigeria spent 96% of revenue on debts in 2022, Approves malaria vaccine

Nigeria spent 96.3 percent of revenue on debt servicing in ...
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Daily Watch – Khartoum thrown into chaos, Adamawa too

Nigeria’s annual inflation rate rose for the third straight month ...
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Daily Watch – Banks’ borrowing leapt 200% in 4 months, Ethiopia joins the IMF trek

Commercial banks’ borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ...
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Daily Watch – Imports from CBN forex ban list tops ₦18.12tn, Ghana approves malaria vaccine

Nigerians imported not less than nine items worth ₦18.12 trillion ...
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Daily Watch – FG to fine flarers billions, Kenya fends off debt default chatter

Nigeria is losing at least $10 billion annually due to ...
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Daily Watch – DSS knew of BVAS flaws pre-election, Amhara protests threaten fragile peace

The United States intelligence community monitored Nigeria’s just-concluded national elections ...
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Daily Watch – Senate queries NNPCL on undeclared crude sales, Banks SDF plunge 95%

Nigeria's Senate has adopted a report of its committee on ...
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Daily Watch – Gunmen abduct Kaduna schoolkids, AU troops targeted in Somalia

Gunmen in Kaduna kidnapped eight secondary school students returning from ...
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Daily Watch – Violence grips Adamawa & Taraba, NPP to hold primary in November

Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists, on Monday, attacked ...
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Daily Watch – Shias protests El-Zakzaky travel ban, Debt reached ₦46tn in Q4 2022

Police in Abuja, on Thursday, dispersed a protest staged by ...
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Daily Watch – DSS allegations stir hornet’s nest, Germany to join EU military mission in Niger

The Department of State Services (DSS), on Wednesday, claimed in ...
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