The boss of public relations firm Teneo has quit after being accused of drunken misbehaviour at a charity party. Declan Kelly said he was stepping down as chairman and chief executive after what he called “an inadvertent, public and embarrassing mistake”. He gave no further details, but media reports said Mr Kelly was accused of […]
UK-based space start-up OneWeb has received a cash injection of $500m (£361m) from Indian firm Bharti Global. The deal means Bharti will now take a 39% stake, making it the biggest shareholder in the satellite provider. The UK government is also a major shareholder after it and Bharti put in $1bn to buy OneWeb out […]
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has commenced operations of the National Public Key Infrastructure (NPKI) to ensure safety of communication services online. Mrs Hadiza Umar, the Head, Cooperate Affairs and External Relations of NITDA, said this on Wednesday in a statement in Abuja. Umar said that the commencement of the NPKI […]
Abuja, June 30, 2021 (NAN) The University of Calabar, says there are over 42,000 unclaimed certificates by graduates of the institution dating back to 1980 and till date. The Registrar of the University, Mr Gabriel Egbe, said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, in […]
The Yaba Art Museum owned by Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech), has opened an exhibition tagged “Living Blue, an Archive Retrospective”, to assist researchers who are conducting projects. Dr Odun Orimolade, Curator of the Museum which is located within YabaTech, said that the exhibition was centred around Mrs Nike Okundaye, Nigeria’s Batik and […]
E-cigarette maker Juul has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a US state that accused the firm of marketing its products to young people. Juul will pay $40m (£29m) to North Carolina over six years and will change its advertising in the region. The vape pen manufacturer did not, however, admit any wrongdoing […]
Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan autocrat Moammar Gadhafi, hasn’t been seen in public since his rebel captors released him from detention in 2017. But he appears now to be mulling a run for the presidency of the war-torn North African country in elections the United Nations and Western powers are […]
The Federal Government on Monday approved the extension of the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to July 26, 2021. The Director, Public Affairs Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde and the Head, Corporate Communications, Nigeria Identity Management Commission, Kayode Adegoke, made this public through a joint statement titled ‘FG approves July 26 as NIN-SIM […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to reconsider a major transgender rights case, letting stand a lower court ruling that a Virginia school district acted unlawfully by refusing to let a transgender male use a bathroom at his high school in accord with his gender identity. The justices decided not to […]
By Edith Ike- Eboh The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says that Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for the Port Harcourt Refining Company is already on site. Mr Mustapha Yakubu, Chief Operating Officer, Refineries & Petrochemicals, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), made this known while briefing newsmen in Abuja, on Monday. “As you know […]