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Afrobeats sensation, Divine Ikubor, popularly known as Rema, has reacted to the detention of five Iranian girls who were caught on video dancing to the remix of his global hit song with Selena Gomez, ‘Calm down’, in public. The 21-year-old said he was inspired by the girls as well as other Iranian women striving for a better world. “To all the beautiful women who are fighting for a better world, I’m inspired by you, I sing for you, and I dream with you,”… Read the full article here

The Federal Government Colleges’ Old Students Associations has called on its alumni nationwide to renovate and provide infrastructures for their alma mater.  Chairman, Mobilisation and Sensitisation Committee of the reunion of the 1979 set of Federal Government College, Odogbolu, Mr Oladipo Fola-Alade, said this in a statement made available to The PUNCH. Fola-Alade, who is also a Lagos-based legal luminary, decried a situation in which the nation’s Unity… Read the full article here

Cryptocurrency ransomware fell to $456.8m in 2022 as victims refused to pay, according to Chainalysis. In its recently released ‘Crypto Crime’ report, the blockchain analytical firm stated that victims’ payments have fallen from 76 per cent in 2019 to 41 per cent in 2022. It stated that this is because ransom payments have become legally riskier, following a U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control advisory in September 2021 on the… Read the full article here

On February 8, Supreme Court ordered the suspension of the deadline for the swapping of old for new naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The CBN has not obeyed the court order and in a broadcast on Thursday, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) contrary to the apex court’s ruling, only extended the validity of N200. Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria, speak on the President’s action in separate interviews with Onozure DANIA Buhari cannot… Read the full article here

Emma Raducanu has said she would “love” to play at the Paris 2024 Olympics – but will she be eligible for the Great Britain team?Raducanu, 20, was beaten in the first round of the Miami Open this week by fellow former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu.Raducanu said after the match that she needs to figure out the “next steps” over an ongoing wrist injury which she has been “managing for some time”.WTA MiamiRaducanu to ‘figure out next steps’ on wrist injury after opening defeat… Read the full article here

Ryan Salame sang like a canary.Salame, FTX’s former co-CEO, warned Bahamian regulators on Nov. 9 that FTX transferred funds to Alameda Research to “cover financial losses,” according to court filings. The regulators wrote in the filing:The Commission understood Mr. Salame as advising that the transfer of clients’ assets in this manner was contrary to the normal corporate governance and operations of FTX Digital. Put simply, that such transfers were not allowed and therefore may… Read the full article here

US prepared to take ‘additional actions if warranted’ on bank deposits — Yellen Read the full article here

Zurich-based digital asset bank Sygnum is seeing an influx in inquiries from international crypto firms looking for new banking partners following the recent collapses of crypto-friendly banking giants in the United States.Dominic Castley, chief marketing officer at Sygnum, told Cointelegraph in an email that they are receiving more onboarding inquiries from crypto firms based in various jurisdictions looking to bank with them. He explained:“Over the past weeks, as the current banking… Read the full article here

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A new study finds that people who eat more ultra-processed foods and less unprocessed foods have an increased risk of developing Crohn’s disease, a condition whose precise causes are not yet fully understood.Ultra-processed foods include a variety of commercially produced items that are increasingly found in diets in the United States and around the world.Experts believe such foods upset the balance of microbiota in the colon, resulting in gastrointestinal inflammation.It is unclear what… Read the full article here