Silicon Valley Bank Collapse 2023 Good and Bad News

Silicon Valley Bank Collapse 2023: The well known venture capital oriented banking institution has fallen into mockery, SVB Financial Group is at minus (SIVB -60.41%), a parent company of Silicon Valley Bank. The bank’s shares also fell by more than 60% on Thursday last week after news emerged that the bank needed to raise capital, and just a day after trading was halted for another 60% plunge in premarket activity. The bank was trading for less than $40 in Friday’s pre-market session and it was a 52-week high just shy of $600 per share. Currently regulators have no choice but to officially close the bank.

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2023 Census in Nigeria – NPC Warns Enumerators, Staffers against Partisanship and Laxity

The National Population Commission (NPC) earlier this week warned Staffers and Enumerators against partisanship and laxity during the 2023 Census in Nigeria.

Kogi NPC Federal Commissioner, Prof. Isa-Jimoh Isa-Jimoh, gave strict warning during a three Day Specialized Work Force and State Facilitators Training inauguration, held at Lokoja Metropolis.

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US President sets framework to regulate cryptocurrency

President Biden has currently released its first-ever framework on what crypto regulation in the world should look like — including ways in which the financial services industry should evolve to make borderless transactions easier, and how to crack down on fraud in the digital asset space of the world

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An Increase in Nigeria’s Inflation rate by 20.52%| NBS

Nigeria business report today; The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has on Thursday stated that Nigerian’s inflation rate has rose to 20.52% as of August 2022

In the Customer Price Index (CPI) and inflation August 2022 report, the Bureau made it clear that on a year to year basis of calculation Nigerian’s inflation rate is now 20.52 per cent

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Former US Circuit Court Judge Ken Starr dead @ 76

Brief Life History of Ken Starr before Death

Ken Starr, Vernon Texas born in 1946, who is well known to be the son of a Congregationalist minister and who has also excelled at school, graduated with a bachelor’s of history from George Washington University in 1968.

Starr went ahead to obtain a master’s degree from Brown University the year after his B.Sc in history. Then in the early 1970s, Starr attended the Duke University Law School, where he edited the institution’s law journal.

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