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I can’t remember saying I’m a virgin — Actress Destiny Etiko

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  Nollywood actress Destiny Etiko has refuted claims on some news outlets that she is a virgin. Etiko, on her Instagram page, expressed dismay that a better title could not be rumoured about her. Reports had been rife on Sunday that the actress revealed that she is a virgin at 33. The now-false information startled social media users, stirring diverse reactions. She said, “Since yesterday, I have not rested with the news calling her out as a virgin. I did not grant any interview, revealing that I am a virgin. I cannot remember granting any interview saying I am a virgin. They did not give me any better title, like soon to be a billionaire.” “There was no written word or an interview about virginity and they are all busy with my precious name, which really shows how important and relevant I am.”

BUSINESSWorld Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate

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  The World Bank has recommended a single foreign exchange (Forex) market, urging Nigeria to do away with its multiple forex markets. In its latest ‘Macro Poverty Outlook for Nigeria: April 2023’, the World Bank said unification of the forex markets should be one of the reforms to strengthen the recovery of the country’s economy. According to the global financial institution, the foreign exchange reform will restore macroeconomic stability which the bank said has weakened due to exchange rate distortions. Although, the  World Bank  also cited declining oil production, costly fuel subsidies, and monetization of the fiscal deficit as reasons for weak macroeconomics. acroeconomic stability has weakened amidst declining oil production, costly fuel subsidies, exchange rate distortions, and monetization of the fiscal deficit. “The authorities can strengthen the economy by restoring macroeconomic stability through reforms to increase oil and non-oil revenues, tighten monetary policies to redu

Shun rumours, I’m strong, Tinubu says on arrival from France

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  President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, returned to Nigeria after a 32-day vacation in three countries, following the conclusion of the 2023 presidential polls, saying he is strong and ready to hit the ground running. An energetic-looking Tinubu, whose jet touched down at about 4:30pm at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, arrived in company of his wife, Oluremi and son, Seyi, to a cheery welcome by his supporters, stalwarts and members of his ruling All Progressives Congress, APC including members of the now-dissolved Presidential Campaign Council, PCC. The visibly elated former governor of Lagos State urged Nigerians to forget rumours about his health. During the vacation, Tinubu was in London, Paris and Saudi Arabia where he observed the lesser Hajj. He was escorted from the airport by a carnival-like motorcade to his residence in Asokoro, even as thousands of supporters and journalists hung around his campaign headquarters in Abuja’s Central District and the

Sudan: Evacuation of over 2,000 Nigerians begins today

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  The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has confirmed plans to evacuate over 2,000 Nigerians in crisis-hit Sudan this morning. This came on a day management of Air Peace expressed its willingness to evacuate Nigerians stranded in the Horn of Africa country free of charge. This is even as Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, also yesterday encouraged Nigerian students in the war-torn country to remain in their universities to avert danger. Recall that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama, had in an interview on Channels Television on Sunday night, said the only option remaining for Nigerians to be evacuated out of Sudan was through land, as the airport in the capital, Khartoum, had been shut, adding that the federal government was working with the Egyptian authorities to make this possible but didn’t say when the evuacuation would commence. But speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise D