17 Year Old Climate Activist Chastises World Leaders For Not Taking Enough Action On Climate Change Despite Spending $370 billion 17 year old climate activist Greta Thunberg once again chastised world leaders at World Economic Forum at Davos, by saying not enough action has been taken to stop the harm, particularly on climate change […]
WHO Postpones Decision On Declaring ‘Coronavirus’ As Global Health Emergency World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday postponed taking a decision on whether the mysterious coronavirus that killed at least 17 people and sickened hundreds of others in China a global health emergency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said physicians need […]
1.4 million Nigerians Scrambled For 5,000 Civil Defence Jobs Over 1.4 million Nigerians scrambled for 5,000 job openings advertised by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), marking yet another testament to Nigeria’s acute unemployment. Federal officials working on the recruitment process told newsmen this week that 1, 477, […]
How Jeff Bezos iPhone Was Hacked Through A Whatsapp Message From Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince A surveillance software was allegedly installed on Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos’s iPhone X by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This has prompted the United Nations to call for an investigation following the […]
Twitter Cofounder Jack Dorsey’s Net Worth Has Tripled To Nearly 240% Since Donald Trump Became President In the three years since Donald Trump became president of the United States, the net worth of Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has soared nearly 240%, more than almost any billionaire in the country. He now sits atop a […]
China To Embark On 39 million mile Rivalry Race To Mars To Catch Up With NASA China is taking its rivalry with the U.S. to another planet. The Chinese space agency is preparing on a rivalry race mission to Mars, marking the most ambitious project on an exploration checklist intended […]
Why There Is No Apple Logo On Tim Cook’s Only Product Without The Brand’s Signature Tim Cook rarely invests his time and money in products without the Apple Inc. logo. But when he tried a prototype shower head at his local gym about five years ago, he made an exception. Philip Winter, […]
Africa’s national teams now know their route to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ following the draw for the second round of the qualifying competition on Tuesday 21 January. The ceremony was held at The Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt and saw the 14 first-round winners and the 26 highest-ranked […]
To-Eat-Money, Chop-Chop, Gist, Other Nigerian Words Added To Oxford Learners Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has introduced 29 Nigerian words and expressions in the January updates to its glossary. Although OED’s World English editor, Danica Salazar, announced this in a blog post last week, the news of the latest addition […]
UK-Africa Investment Summit: Nigeria Benefits From £6.5bn Commercial Deals, £1.5bn Aid The British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, on Tuesday said the UK-Africa Investment Summit has launched a new partnership for growth in Nigeria. The British Commissioner said in a statement that commercial deals worth £324 million (over ₦153.4 billion) has been […]
Nigeria Police Officer Who’s Served For 30-years and Has Never Received Bribe Receives Top Award The Divisional Police Officer, Itam, Akwa Ibom State Police Command, Francis Erhabor, says he has never taken a bribe in the course of his work as a police officer. “The issue of my being here […]
Ethiopia Targets $7.5 billion by Privatizing Its Economy The government targets $7.5 billion to boost it’s economy to deal with dwindling exports and growing foreign debt. For decades, Irba Jana has scraped out a modest living from sugar cane, selling his harvest to mills run by Ethiopia’s state-owned sugar monopoly. […]