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Can an AI-Guided Robot Help a California City Resist Sea Level Rise and Sequester Carbon?
A San Rafael startup proposed a sci-fi solution to raise areas facing the twin threats of land subsidence and sea level rise. Some officials and experts are skeptical.
In South Memphis, Elon Musk’s Colossus Operated Gas Turbines Without Appropriate Permits, Residents and Activists Claim
In an area long plagued by air pollution, permitting irregularities have opponents of what’s predicted to be the world’s largest supercomputing facility fearing the world’s richest man is...
New home kitchen permit opens entrepreneurial door for Contra Costa County cooks
It’s been almost half a century since Debbie Carrillo’s journey as a home cook began in her mother’s kitchen in Hayward. She and her sister, Deeann Carillo, discovered...
EU Rules Fail to Stop Dumping of Banned Pesticide
For Nigerian farmer, Prince Manu, using pesticides is the norm, as it is for almost every farmer he knows. He believes pesticides make farming far easier. However, after...
AC Transit riders get to keep bus shelters after Oakland backs off plan to remove them
When the winter rains arrive, Oakland public transit riders will find shelter once again at their bus stops. But that's only because the city's Transportation Department agreed to...
BART using federal loan to build new police headquarters in Oakland
BART is gearing up plans to relocate its Police Department to new headquarters in downtown Oakland in 2026, after receiving a $150 million federal loan to fund construction....
The Pollution ‘Caused by Nigeria’s Largest Sugar Refinery’
When Philip Evan first suffered a chest pains, he thought it was a one-off symptom that would disappear. During the period, many of his fellow workers who sprayed...
The Deadly Protest Nigeria’s Top Sugar Refinery Doesn’t Want You to Know About
When Gad Jacob jumped on his motorcycle in mid-July 2021, to head home after a shift at Dangote Sugar Refinery, Nigeria's biggest sugar factory, he had no idea...
Foreign Loan Apps Send Billions Home While Bullying Customers and Violating Nigerian Regulators’ Rules
Bruno Okere knew very little about loan apps until he was introduced to the world of debt. He never wanted to be in a position where a financial...
From Nigeria to India, Big Tech does little or nothing to curb fake news
India-based fact-checker Bharat Nayak monitors over 176 Hindi language WhatsApp groups for a research project he is working on to understand news consumption among Indians. Until a few...
Big tech ‘failing’ to curb fake news in global South
[ABUJA/NEW DELHI] India-based fact-checker Bharat Nayak monitors over 176 Hindi language WhatsApp groups for a research project he is working on to understand news consumption among Indians. Until...
Victimised by Tradition: Single Women in Nigeria Are Ostracised by Caste
For Chidera Donatus and Chukwuma George, their love story began as many others had during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the world was isolated in lockdown, they both reached...
Would COVID-19 vaccine produced in Africa get higher uptake and allay Nigerians’ fears?
Would COVID-19 vaccine produced in Africa get higher untake and allav Nigerians' fears? RY ANIRF IDALILL & IENNIFER UGWAFor Daniel Uzor, 34, the first place he heard about...
How misinformation, conspiracy theories, religion contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rural Nigeria
How misinformation, conspiracy theories, religion contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rural Nigeria BY JENNIFER UGWA & ANIBE IDAJILI About 60 Kilometers from Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital territory,...
How Non-Western Journalists Enriched Coverage of the Global Pandemic
Read in English hamzaturkkol/iStock Este artículo fue traducido por Inés Gutiérrez Jaber y editado por Rodrigo Pérez Ortega. Cuando India implementó un confinamiento para frenar la propagación de...
Sex traffickers target teenage girls in Nigeria’s IDP Camp
By Jennifer UGWAON a breezy evening, January 6 2021, five young girls and one boy walked briskly behind Madame Joy as she led the way to a motor...
How toxic e-waste from high-income countries booms in Nigerian market
By Jennifer UGWAIn this report, Jennifer Ugwa writes about illegal importation of damaged and obsolete cooling appliances into the Nigerian electronics market and its impact on environment and...
Guinness Nigeria cuts workforce by almost 600 as directors’ paychecks rocket in five years
By Jennifer UGWATHE Directors of Guinness Nigeria significantly increased their pay in the last five years, even as the drink company's profit margin was virtually halved, its accounts...
Of eight African nations yet to record any case of COVId-19, Burundi might be hiding skeleton in its cupboard
SINCE the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic which originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 that has rapidly spread across the globe and claimed the lives of over...
UBA silent on staff dismissal as ex-staff claim bank got rid of them like “spoilt goods”
AS staff of the United Bank of Africa started the new year with lots of cheers, unknowingly to over 3000 staff, they were to be "asked to resign...
UN urges world govts, financial institutions to support private sector over global recession
THE United Nations Human Rights Organisation, in Geneva, on Friday, advised governments to consider the introduction of an emergency universal basic income to support individuals in the private...
Economic council raises alarm, says Nigeria might slip into recession again
THE Presidential Economic Advisory Council, PEAC on Tuesday raised warnings about grim economic consequences that Nigeria might experience if the Coronavirus outbreak is not contained soon. President Muhammadu...
How bill to ban electricity generators will affect small businesses in Abuja
IT was the second time the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) was interrupting power supply that hot afternoon -an action that produced murmurs and sighs from the customers...
Ghana, Gabon and Kenya confirm first cases of coronavirus despite travel restrictions
GHANA, Gabon and Kenya have all confirmed they have recorded first cases of coronavirus despite imposing travel restrictions within the week. Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Ghana's Health Minister said...
#METOO: Former Hollywood producer, Weinstein kicks as he bags 23 years prison term for rape, sexual assault
FORMERLY recognised as one of Hollywood top producers, Harvey Weinstein who has been accused of violating scores of women, was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment on Wednesday. The...
COVID-19: South Africa repatriates citizens from China as Ghana and Gabon implement travel ban
THE South African Government has sent a plane to Wuhan, China's epicentre of coronavirus to repatriate over 120 of it's citizens still in the city since the outbreak...
COVID-19: We are operating in “uncharted territory” WHO says as Nigerian doctor claim to have found possible cure to virus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebryesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday during the daily briefings since the outbreak of novel coronavirus said that public health officials are...
Stereotypes restrict gender reporting in Nigeria – Experts
A GROUP of professional journalists and activists have identified social conditioning and power dynamics among other issues as the major hurdle that constrain journalists from telling objective gender...
FRAUD: Court orders ex-Naval director to forfeit almost N500m to FG
A FEDERAL High Court, Abuja, on Monday has ordered the permanent forfeiture of about N500million found to be fraudulently amassed by a former director of Nigeria Navy Accounts,...
Namibia becomes first African country to export red meat to U.S. market
NAMIBIA has become the first African country to export red meat to Philadelphia, the United States after it exported 25 tonnes of beef two decades after series of...
Google/Fitbit deal: EU says trackers make private health data available to tech giants
THE European Data Protection Board on Thursday raised alarm over a potential breach of privacy and risks that might arise from the Alphabet Inc-owned Google's $2.1 billion bid...
World failing to protect children from ecological degradation, climate change and exploitative marketing practices say experts
NO country is adequately protecting children's health, environment and futures, a report by health experts around the world has shown. The report titled A Future for the World's...
US visa: Nigerians ‘must’ exit America on set date or risk deportation
ALL Nigerians entering the United States are mandated to exit the country on the date set by the Department of Homeland Security or risk deportation. As part of...
CBN governor impostor bags three years imprisonment for N4.5m fraud
A FEDERAL High Court which sat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Monday sentenced one Nwalozie Onyebuchi Julius to three years imprisonment without an option of fine for...
Nearly 60,000 Cameroonian refugees arrive in Nigeria as violence rocks country
THE United Nations refugee agency on Thursday revealed that nearly 60,000 displaced Cameroonians are currently in Nigeria, with this number expected to rise based on new arrival information....
Finding Alex killers: Police deny murder of journalist, but there is a gap in their explanation | The ICIR
ON a normal day, Berger Roundabout in Abuja is a beehive of activities, but it was unusually quiet on Tuesday 14, January. A lifeless body lay on the...
Bird flu hits China as country grapples with outbreak of novel coronavirus
AN outbreak of 5N6 strain of 'Highly pathogenic' avian influenza popularly known as bird-flu has broken out in Chinese provinces near Hubei, Wuhan, according to the China Ministry...
NNPC secures $1 million U.S. grant for gas-fired power plant in Abuja
THE US government has granted Nigeria over $1 million for technical and financial work on a power plant project in the capital Abuja, the US Trade and Development...
How $308m Abacha loot was shared before getting home
THROUGH a collaboration lauded as one of the world's largest asset recovery across borders, the government of Nigeria on Tuesday, February 4 signed a repatriation pact with the...
Coronavirus: EU offers €10 million for research on possible cure to virus
THE European Commission has announced the release of research funds worth €10 million for scientists to hasten clinical discovery that would cure the novel coronavirus. The EU 'emergency...
Coronavirus: 60 Nigerians in Wuhan not infected, says Chinese ambassador
ZHOU Pingjian, Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, has said no Nigerian citizen residing in Wuhan city has contracted the novel Coronavirus. He made this disclosure on Monday during a...
REVEALED: Iran lied, knew exact time missile hit Ukrainian plane that killed 176 passengers
NEW information has shown that the Iranian government knew a missile had brought down the Ukrainian International Airways plane carrying 176 persons on 8 January but deliberately lied...
MTN to invest $1.6bn in Nigeria’s capital market after AGF withdrew tax case against firm
TELECOMMUNICATION giant, MTN on Wednesday said that it will be investing $1.6 billion in Nigeria within the next three years in an effort to strengthen and expand its...
US Travel Ban: If Pelosi, others have their way, Nigeria may exit list
UNITED States House of Representatives has condemned plans by Donald Trump, US President to extend his administration's travel ban to include Nigeria and other countries. In 2017, a...
Birth Tourism: Pregnant women to be denied visas as US imposes new visa rules
THE United States under the Donald Trump administration has said that new visa rules would apply to non-US pregnant women as it plans to restrict 'birth tourism' in...
US detects second case of new coronavirus, monitoring 63 other possible infections across 22 states
THE Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has detected a second case of the novel coronavirus in the United States after an infected woman returned from the...
UPDATE: New coronavirus in China may spread to other countries faster than expected say WHO calls for an emergency meeting
THE World Health Organisation on Tuesday has confirmed that the new strain of coronavirus of unknown origin without a vaccine yet may very well spread around the world...
NIJ sacks lecturer for alleged sexual assault
THE Nigerian Institute of Journalism in a statement made available on its official social media handles on Monday announced the immediate dismissal of one of its lecturers over...
Afreximbank approves $500m to support production, trade in Africa
AFRICAN Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the release of an intervention fund worth $500 million to support the production and trade of African cultural and creative products over...
WHO confirms new strain of contagious coronavirus with no cure yet in China
WORLD Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed over 200 cases of patients with a new strain of contagious coronavirus in the central city of Wuhan, unfortunately, very little is...
Media, public banned in Israeli NSO surveillance firm hearing, alleged to have facilitated journalist murder
FOLLOWING international outcries over the use of Israeli NSO surveillance spyware, an Israeli court has ruled to have the media and public absent from the court proceedings citing...
James Ibori: Only portion of $153m loot can be returned to Nigeria, says UK prosecutors
A NEW legal attempt has been launched on Thursday by British prosecutors to confiscate tens of millions of pounds stolen from Delta State by the then state governor,...
More tax breaks for large families in Russia as Putin seeks to stimulate birth rate
VLADIMIR Putin, President of Russia has announced a series of plans to urge parents into having more children in the country. On Wednesday during his 16th annual address...
Patients are frustrated in Abuja hospitals due to long wait, but there is no way out yet
Long-hour of wait is a common phenomenon in Abuja hospitals. Jennifer UGWA who visited public hospitals in the Federal Capital City reports about the frustration of patients who...
Countries affected by Ukrainian plane crash to take legal actions against Iran
FOLLOWING the plane crash in Iran that led to the demise of all passengers aboard the aircraft, ministers of affected nationals say they would soon converge to discuss...
World Bank says economy will grow globally, if…
ALTHOUGH downward economic risks persist globally due to poor trade performance recorded in the previous year, global economic growth is projected to reach 2.5 per cent in 2020,...
CBN releases new framework to address payment system risks in Nigeria
THE Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday released the Nigerian Payments System Risk and Information Security Management Framework, a directive to guide the management of risks associated with...
Finance Bill: Firms with less than N25m turnover will not pay company tax, says minister
ZAINAB Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning said that the passing of the Finance Bill into law would exempt businesses with turnover less than N25m from...
Vengeful exposed fake drug peddler promise to “hunt down” ICIR Amos Abba after investigative report
AMOS Abba, an ICIR reporter on Tuesday was threatened by an aggrieved fake drug peddler who promised to "hunt him down" after the journalists' investigation exposed fraudulent dealings...
Nigeria suspends Turkish Airlines operations over luggage delays
THE Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Friday suspended Turkish Airlines from operating into the country over persistent baggage delays. A letter by the NCCA to the airline,...
China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt are world’s worst jailers of journalists-CPJ | The ICIR
THE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday said that the number of journalists imprisoned globally for their work in 2019 remained near record high, as authoritarians show...
Immigration to unveil e-visa before end of 2019
MUHAMMAD Babandede, Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has revealed that Nigeria will soon commence issuance of its electronic visa in a move that is expected to...
Kenya: Nairobi governor arrested for economic crimes
THE governor of Nairobi was arrested on Friday shortly after Kenya's chief prosecutor ordered he be detained to face charges for economic crimes. Governor Mike Sonko is the...
Plans for ECOWAS single currency impossible by 2020, says minister
ZAINAB Ahmed, Nigeria Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning has said that plans for the Economic Community of West African States to have a single currency would...
Nigeria among top 20 countries targeted by crooked phone callers, says Truecaller
TRUCALLER, Stockholm-based caller identity and spam detection tech company on Tuesday ranked Nigeria amongst countries that receive the most spam calls and Short Message Services in the world...
Nearly 30 per cent of under- skilled youths resident in Africa, AFDB
ADAMON Mukasa, Senior researcher, Africa Development Bank has said that to curb unemployment, the governments of African States need to develop policies to facilitate school-to-work transition of their...
Another Russia-Nigeria deal goes through as FG signs fertiliser production agreement
THE Nigerian government has signed a new agreement with Uralchem, a Russian firm to increase fertiliser production in the country. On Monday, under the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative, the...
Nigeria rakes in N275bn from VAT in Q3 of 2019, says NBS
NIGERIA earned N275.12 billion from Value Added Tax in the third quarter of 2019, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. According to the Sectoral...
Reps to investigate Nigeria-Russia’s deal on revival of Ajaokuta Steel
MEMBERS of the House of Representatives has begun an investigation into the Nigeria-Russian deal to revive the Ajaokuta Steel Mill.
Another Catholic clergy abducted three months after priests protested murder of colleague
STATE Police Command in Enugu has confirmed the abduction of another Catholic priest, Reverend Father Malachy Asadu barely four months after the murder of Paul Offu, parish priest...
Senate approves bill to increase VAT payment by FG
THE Senate on Thursday approved the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to increase value-added tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent. In September, the federal...
Nigeria’s GDP grew by 2.28 percent in 3Q of 2019, despite border closure
NIGERIA'S Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.28 per cent in real terms, in the third quarter (Q3) of 2019, up from 1.81 per cent growth recorded in...
Kogi Election: PDP women leader burnt alive by suspected political thugs
Acheju Abuh, the Women Leader of PDP's Wada/Aro Campaign Council, was on Monday set ablaze by a group of suspected political thugs in her home at Ochadamu in...
Senate to investigate NEMA over ‘selective’ disaster response in 2019
THE Senate on Tuesday has directed its Committees on Special Duties, Ecology and Climate Change and Environment to investigate the effectiveness of the National Emergency Management Agency over...
Nigeria ranks 30th in 2019 Africa Visa Openness index
FOR the first time, African travellers have liberal access to over half the continent, the 2019 Africa Visa Openness Index published by the African Union Commission and African...
CBN to stop treasury bill sale to individuals and start-ups
THE Central Bank of Nigeria has issued a directive to banks and other financial institutions to halt the sale of treasury bills to individuals and small firms. According...
Despite Nigeria border closure, Benin Republic maintains strong economy- IMF
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has disclosed that the Republic of Benin has maintained a strong economic performance despite Nigeria's closure of the land border connecting the two...
New home kitchen permit opens entrepreneurial door for Contra Costa County cooks
It’s been almost half a century since Debbie Carrillo’s journey as a home cook began in her mother’s kitchen in Hayward. She and her sister, Deeann Carillo, discovered...
Foreign Loan Apps Send Billions Home While Bullying Customers and Violating Nigerian Regulators’ Rules
Bruno Okere knew very little about loan apps until he was introduced to the world of debt. He never wanted to be in a position where a financial...
Big tech ‘failing’ to curb fake news in global South
[ABUJA/NEW DELHI] India-based fact-checker Bharat Nayak monitors over 176 Hindi language WhatsApp groups for a research project he is working on to understand news consumption among Indians. Until...
Guinness Nigeria cuts workforce by almost 600 as directors’ paychecks rocket in five years
By Jennifer UGWATHE Directors of Guinness Nigeria significantly increased their pay in the last five years, even as the drink company's profit margin was virtually halved, its accounts...
EU Rules Fail to Stop Dumping of Banned Pesticide
For Nigerian farmer, Prince Manu, using pesticides is the norm, as it is for almost every farmer he knows. He believes pesticides make farming far easier. However, after...
The Pollution ‘Caused by Nigeria’s Largest Sugar Refinery’
When Philip Evan first suffered a chest pains, he thought it was a one-off symptom that would disappear. During the period, many of his fellow workers who sprayed...
The Deadly Protest Nigeria’s Top Sugar Refinery Doesn’t Want You to Know About
When Gad Jacob jumped on his motorcycle in mid-July 2021, to head home after a shift at Dangote Sugar Refinery, Nigeria's biggest sugar factory, he had no idea...
How toxic e-waste from high-income countries booms in Nigerian market
By Jennifer UGWAIn this report, Jennifer Ugwa writes about illegal importation of damaged and obsolete cooling appliances into the Nigerian electronics market and its impact on environment and...
How bill to ban electricity generators will affect small businesses in Abuja
IT was the second time the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) was interrupting power supply that hot afternoon -an action that produced murmurs and sighs from the customers...
Would COVID-19 vaccine produced in Africa get higher uptake and allay Nigerians’ fears?
Would COVID-19 vaccine produced in Africa get higher untake and allav Nigerians' fears? RY ANIRF IDALILL & IENNIFER UGWAFor Daniel Uzor, 34, the first place he heard about...
How misinformation, conspiracy theories, religion contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rural Nigeria
How misinformation, conspiracy theories, religion contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rural Nigeria BY JENNIFER UGWA & ANIBE IDAJILI About 60 Kilometers from Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital territory,...
How Non-Western Journalists Enriched Coverage of the Global Pandemic
Read in English hamzaturkkol/iStock Este artículo fue traducido por Inés Gutiérrez Jaber y editado por Rodrigo Pérez Ortega. Cuando India implementó un confinamiento para frenar la propagación de...
FRAUD: Court orders ex-Naval director to forfeit almost N500m to FG
A FEDERAL High Court, Abuja, on Monday has ordered the permanent forfeiture of about N500million found to be fraudulently amassed by a former director of Nigeria Navy Accounts,...
Finding Alex killers: Police deny murder of journalist, but there is a gap in their explanation | The ICIR
ON a normal day, Berger Roundabout in Abuja is a beehive of activities, but it was unusually quiet on Tuesday 14, January. A lifeless body lay on the...
US Travel Ban: If Pelosi, others have their way, Nigeria may exit list
UNITED States House of Representatives has condemned plans by Donald Trump, US President to extend his administration's travel ban to include Nigeria and other countries. In 2017, a...
NIJ sacks lecturer for alleged sexual assault
THE Nigerian Institute of Journalism in a statement made available on its official social media handles on Monday announced the immediate dismissal of one of its lecturers over...
James Ibori: Only portion of $153m loot can be returned to Nigeria, says UK prosecutors
A NEW legal attempt has been launched on Thursday by British prosecutors to confiscate tens of millions of pounds stolen from Delta State by the then state governor,...
Kenya: Nairobi governor arrested for economic crimes
THE governor of Nairobi was arrested on Friday shortly after Kenya's chief prosecutor ordered he be detained to face charges for economic crimes. Governor Mike Sonko is the...
Nigeria among top 20 countries targeted by crooked phone callers, says Truecaller
TRUCALLER, Stockholm-based caller identity and spam detection tech company on Tuesday ranked Nigeria amongst countries that receive the most spam calls and Short Message Services in the world...
Another Catholic clergy abducted three months after priests protested murder of colleague
STATE Police Command in Enugu has confirmed the abduction of another Catholic priest, Reverend Father Malachy Asadu barely four months after the murder of Paul Offu, parish priest...
Kogi Election: PDP women leader burnt alive by suspected political thugs
Acheju Abuh, the Women Leader of PDP's Wada/Aro Campaign Council, was on Monday set ablaze by a group of suspected political thugs in her home at Ochadamu in...
Of eight African nations yet to record any case of COVId-19, Burundi might be hiding skeleton in its cupboard
SINCE the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic which originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 that has rapidly spread across the globe and claimed the lives of over...
UBA silent on staff dismissal as ex-staff claim bank got rid of them like “spoilt goods”
AS staff of the United Bank of Africa started the new year with lots of cheers, unknowingly to over 3000 staff, they were to be "asked to resign...
UN urges world govts, financial institutions to support private sector over global recession
THE United Nations Human Rights Organisation, in Geneva, on Friday, advised governments to consider the introduction of an emergency universal basic income to support individuals in the private...
Economic council raises alarm, says Nigeria might slip into recession again
THE Presidential Economic Advisory Council, PEAC on Tuesday raised warnings about grim economic consequences that Nigeria might experience if the Coronavirus outbreak is not contained soon. President Muhammadu...
Ghana, Gabon and Kenya confirm first cases of coronavirus despite travel restrictions
GHANA, Gabon and Kenya have all confirmed they have recorded first cases of coronavirus despite imposing travel restrictions within the week. Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Ghana's Health Minister said...
#METOO: Former Hollywood producer, Weinstein kicks as he bags 23 years prison term for rape, sexual assault
FORMERLY recognised as one of Hollywood top producers, Harvey Weinstein who has been accused of violating scores of women, was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment on Wednesday. The...
COVID-19: South Africa repatriates citizens from China as Ghana and Gabon implement travel ban
THE South African Government has sent a plane to Wuhan, China's epicentre of coronavirus to repatriate over 120 of it's citizens still in the city since the outbreak...
COVID-19: We are operating in “uncharted territory” WHO says as Nigerian doctor claim to have found possible cure to virus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebryesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday during the daily briefings since the outbreak of novel coronavirus said that public health officials are...
Stereotypes restrict gender reporting in Nigeria – Experts
A GROUP of professional journalists and activists have identified social conditioning and power dynamics among other issues as the major hurdle that constrain journalists from telling objective gender...
FRAUD: Court orders ex-Naval director to forfeit almost N500m to FG
A FEDERAL High Court, Abuja, on Monday has ordered the permanent forfeiture of about N500million found to be fraudulently amassed by a former director of Nigeria Navy Accounts,...
World failing to protect children from ecological degradation, climate change and exploitative marketing practices say experts
NO country is adequately protecting children's health, environment and futures, a report by health experts around the world has shown. The report titled A Future for the World's...
Google/Fitbit deal: EU says trackers make private health data available to tech giants
THE European Data Protection Board on Thursday raised alarm over a potential breach of privacy and risks that might arise from the Alphabet Inc-owned Google's $2.1 billion bid...
Namibia becomes first African country to export red meat to U.S. market
NAMIBIA has become the first African country to export red meat to Philadelphia, the United States after it exported 25 tonnes of beef two decades after series of...
CBN governor impostor bags three years imprisonment for N4.5m fraud
A FEDERAL High Court which sat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Monday sentenced one Nwalozie Onyebuchi Julius to three years imprisonment without an option of fine for...
US visa: Nigerians ‘must’ exit America on set date or risk deportation
ALL Nigerians entering the United States are mandated to exit the country on the date set by the Department of Homeland Security or risk deportation. As part of...
Nearly 60,000 Cameroonian refugees arrive in Nigeria as violence rocks country
THE United Nations refugee agency on Thursday revealed that nearly 60,000 displaced Cameroonians are currently in Nigeria, with this number expected to rise based on new arrival information....
NNPC secures $1 million U.S. grant for gas-fired power plant in Abuja
THE US government has granted Nigeria over $1 million for technical and financial work on a power plant project in the capital Abuja, the US Trade and Development...
Bird flu hits China as country grapples with outbreak of novel coronavirus
AN outbreak of 5N6 strain of 'Highly pathogenic' avian influenza popularly known as bird-flu has broken out in Chinese provinces near Hubei, Wuhan, according to the China Ministry...
Coronavirus: EU offers €10 million for research on possible cure to virus
THE European Commission has announced the release of research funds worth €10 million for scientists to hasten clinical discovery that would cure the novel coronavirus. The EU 'emergency...
REVEALED: Iran lied, knew exact time missile hit Ukrainian plane that killed 176 passengers
NEW information has shown that the Iranian government knew a missile had brought down the Ukrainian International Airways plane carrying 176 persons on 8 January but deliberately lied...
Coronavirus: 60 Nigerians in Wuhan not infected, says Chinese ambassador
ZHOU Pingjian, Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, has said no Nigerian citizen residing in Wuhan city has contracted the novel Coronavirus. He made this disclosure on Monday during a...
MTN to invest $1.6bn in Nigeria’s capital market after AGF withdrew tax case against firm
TELECOMMUNICATION giant, MTN on Wednesday said that it will be investing $1.6 billion in Nigeria within the next three years in an effort to strengthen and expand its...
US detects second case of new coronavirus, monitoring 63 other possible infections across 22 states
THE Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has detected a second case of the novel coronavirus in the United States after an infected woman returned from the...
Birth Tourism: Pregnant women to be denied visas as US imposes new visa rules
THE United States under the Donald Trump administration has said that new visa rules would apply to non-US pregnant women as it plans to restrict 'birth tourism' in...
UPDATE: New coronavirus in China may spread to other countries faster than expected say WHO calls for an emergency meeting
THE World Health Organisation on Tuesday has confirmed that the new strain of coronavirus of unknown origin without a vaccine yet may very well spread around the world...
WHO confirms new strain of contagious coronavirus with no cure yet in China
WORLD Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed over 200 cases of patients with a new strain of contagious coronavirus in the central city of Wuhan, unfortunately, very little is...
Afreximbank approves $500m to support production, trade in Africa
AFRICAN Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the release of an intervention fund worth $500 million to support the production and trade of African cultural and creative products over...
More tax breaks for large families in Russia as Putin seeks to stimulate birth rate
VLADIMIR Putin, President of Russia has announced a series of plans to urge parents into having more children in the country. On Wednesday during his 16th annual address...
Countries affected by Ukrainian plane crash to take legal actions against Iran
FOLLOWING the plane crash in Iran that led to the demise of all passengers aboard the aircraft, ministers of affected nationals say they would soon converge to discuss...
World Bank says economy will grow globally, if…
ALTHOUGH downward economic risks persist globally due to poor trade performance recorded in the previous year, global economic growth is projected to reach 2.5 per cent in 2020,...
Finance Bill: Firms with less than N25m turnover will not pay company tax, says minister
ZAINAB Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning said that the passing of the Finance Bill into law would exempt businesses with turnover less than N25m from...
CBN releases new framework to address payment system risks in Nigeria
THE Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday released the Nigerian Payments System Risk and Information Security Management Framework, a directive to guide the management of risks associated with...
Vengeful exposed fake drug peddler promise to “hunt down” ICIR Amos Abba after investigative report
AMOS Abba, an ICIR reporter on Tuesday was threatened by an aggrieved fake drug peddler who promised to "hunt him down" after the journalists' investigation exposed fraudulent dealings...
Nigeria suspends Turkish Airlines operations over luggage delays
THE Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Friday suspended Turkish Airlines from operating into the country over persistent baggage delays. A letter by the NCCA to the airline,...
Immigration to unveil e-visa before end of 2019
MUHAMMAD Babandede, Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has revealed that Nigeria will soon commence issuance of its electronic visa in a move that is expected to...
Plans for ECOWAS single currency impossible by 2020, says minister
ZAINAB Ahmed, Nigeria Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning has said that plans for the Economic Community of West African States to have a single currency would...
Nearly 30 per cent of under- skilled youths resident in Africa, AFDB
ADAMON Mukasa, Senior researcher, Africa Development Bank has said that to curb unemployment, the governments of African States need to develop policies to facilitate school-to-work transition of their...
Another Russia-Nigeria deal goes through as FG signs fertiliser production agreement
THE Nigerian government has signed a new agreement with Uralchem, a Russian firm to increase fertiliser production in the country. On Monday, under the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative, the...
Nigeria rakes in N275bn from VAT in Q3 of 2019, says NBS
NIGERIA earned N275.12 billion from Value Added Tax in the third quarter of 2019, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. According to the Sectoral...
Reps to investigate Nigeria-Russia’s deal on revival of Ajaokuta Steel
MEMBERS of the House of Representatives has begun an investigation into the Nigeria-Russian deal to revive the Ajaokuta Steel Mill.
Nigeria’s GDP grew by 2.28 percent in 3Q of 2019, despite border closure
NIGERIA'S Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.28 per cent in real terms, in the third quarter (Q3) of 2019, up from 1.81 per cent growth recorded in...
Senate approves bill to increase VAT payment by FG
THE Senate on Thursday approved the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to increase value-added tax (VAT) from five per cent to 7.5 per cent. In September, the federal...
Senate to investigate NEMA over ‘selective’ disaster response in 2019
THE Senate on Tuesday has directed its Committees on Special Duties, Ecology and Climate Change and Environment to investigate the effectiveness of the National Emergency Management Agency over...
Nigeria ranks 30th in 2019 Africa Visa Openness index
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FRAUD: Court orders ex-Naval director to forfeit almost N500m to FG
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Finance Bill: Firms with less than N25m turnover will not pay company tax, says minister
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AC Transit riders get to keep bus shelters after Oakland backs off plan to remove them
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BART is gearing up plans to relocate its Police Department to new headquarters in downtown Oakland in 2026, after receiving a $150 million federal loan to fund construction....
ELECTION DAY COVERAGE: Continuous updates from the polls in Oakland
While most of the attention on Election Day will focus on Vice President and East Bay native Kamala Harris' attempt to make history and become the nation's first...
Victimised by Tradition: Single Women in Nigeria Are Ostracised by Caste
For Chidera Donatus and Chukwuma George, their love story began as many others had during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the world was isolated in lockdown, they both reached...
Sex traffickers target teenage girls in Nigeria’s IDP Camp
By Jennifer UGWAON a breezy evening, January 6 2021, five young girls and one boy walked briskly behind Madame Joy as she led the way to a motor...