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On Wednesday, some patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) complained that they were unable to pay for their care because of a financial crisis due to the naira scarcity situation. They were unable to pay their bills in cash in Benin, including hospital cards, medications, and medical exams. They said that the cashless system was annoying. but prayed that things improved so that patients wouldn’t pass away from avoidable reasons. An elderly patient named Mrs. Sarah Idemudia informed reporters that she had spent more than two hours waiting to pay for her medication at the hospital’s Point…

On Wednesday, gunmen ambushed the campaign convoy of Oforchukwu Egbo, the PDP candidate for the Enugu North/South Federal Constituency. The incident took place in the state’s Enugu South Local Government Area at Eke-Otu in Amechi Awkunanaw. One of the bus drivers in the convoy was slain by the thugs. According to sources, his body was burned along with the car. You may recall that on Wednesday night in Amechi, some gunmen also ambushed and killed Mr. Oyibo Chukwu, a senatorial candidate for the Labour Party in the Enugu East senatorial district, along with five of his followers. JUST IN: Gunmen…

On Wednesday, a major winter storm battered the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow, closing hundreds of schools, grounding air travel, and making road travel difficult, if not impossible, in some parts of the United States. On Wednesday morning, more than 50 million Americans were under winter weather advisories as the storm moved across a wide swath of the western and northern United States and into the East. The National Weather Service predicted up to 2 feet (60 cm) of snow and winds of up to 60 miles per hour in some areas during the…

An earthquake of about 7.2 magnitudes shook Tajikistan on Thursday at 8:37 a.m. (0037 GMT) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), according to Chinese state television CCTV, citing the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter is about 82 kilometers from the nearest Chinese border and was felt strongly in some areas of China’s western Xinjiang region, including Kashgar and Artux, according to CCTV. According to state media Xinhua, power supply and communication remained normal in Kashgar. According to state media, the Xinjiang railroad department has halted passenger trains on the Aksu-Kashgar section of the Southern Xinjiang railway. Six…

Airlines canceled more than 1,000 trips in the United States on Wednesday as a strong winter storm makes its way through the western and central states. A total of 1,035 trips within, into, or out of the United States were canceled by 0915 am ET, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware, which showed 932 trips were delayed. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a tweet on Tuesday that the severe weather could cause trip delays or cancellations this week in Minnesota and other states in the Great Lakes and southern plains. Snow falling at a rate of two inches an…

Police officers and other security professionals assigned to governors, ministers, and other government officials are not permitted to accompany their principals to polling places during the elections in 2023. This information is found in a statement released on Wednesday in Osogbo and signed by SP Yemisi Opalola, the command’s spokeswoman. “Any officer found to have flouted this directive will be subjected to disciplinary actions. “Also, the use of sirens, revolving lights, and tinted car windows by unauthorized citizens during the period will not be allowed. “The command also warns other security outfits/organizations that are not constitutionally empowered to participate in…

In the southwest French town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a 16-year-old student fatally stabbed a teacher, according to authorities and the local prosecutor’s office, on Wednesday. A woman in her 50s who taught Spanish was the victim, according to local legislator Vincent Bru. A source familiar with the investigation informed reporters that the student was detained after reporting to another instructor that he was possessed and had heard voices telling him to attack the teacher. While Bru refused to provide further information about the attack, he did state that “this does not seem to have any terrorist cause at all.” “It’s a…

Roughly three days before the general elections, a bag allegedly found in a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State, contained thousands of Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According to reports, the cards were discovered by hunters in Akamili, a neighborhood in the industrial town, who later brought them to the Authority FM radio station’s offices. The PVCs were exhibited on the station’s floor in a viral video shot at the station’s Nnewi facility, with the two hunters standing next to them. The majority of the cards, according to a female radio station employee who…

Cash payments to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices across the country for election logistics have started to be made by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This has allayed concerns that INEC wouldn’t be able to obtain cash from the CBN due to the current shortage of naira notes as a result of the CBN’s adoption of a cashless policy. An INEC national commissioner reportedly claimed that branch controllers of the CBN had been directed to distribute the money to INEC offices in the states. According to reports, the state RECs had submitted funding proposals to the CBN based…

For the second Engineering and Healthcare Show (EHCS), which will be held from February 23 to February 25, in the Lahore Punjab province, a team of 125 people, including some from Nigeria, has arrived in Pakistan. The event is being organized by the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) and the Ministry of Commerce of Pakistan, and it will feature 736 representatives from 55 nations. The TDAP Secretary, Dr. Fareed Qureshi, claims that the goal of the trade expo, which debuted in 2022, is to promote the country’s goods abroad. “TDAP’s primary objective is to promote Pakistani indigenous products and…