At least 19 more cases of COVID-19 were reported among Tokyo Olympics participants on Friday, according to local media. Three of the fresh cases are living at the Tokyo Olympics Village, Kyodo News reported. The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee said it is the highest number of cases since early July. Of the fresh […]
Social media firms Twitter and Snap are continuing to add users even as pandemic restrictions ease. Snapchat’s number of daily users topped 293 million in the three months to the end of June, beating analysts’ expectations. And Twitter reported it passed the 200 million mark for daily active users who view adverts on […]
Over 600,000 users of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s (NHS) COVID-19 test and trace app were “pinged” alerts recommending self-isolation earlier this month. In what has been dubbed the “pingdemic,” the app told users to begin a 10-day quarantine if they tested positive for the coronavirus or had been in close contact […]
Nine people have been indicted on charges of operating in the United States as illegal agents of China. The group allegedly “conducted surveillance of and engaged in a campaign to harass, stalk and coerce certain residents of the United States to return to the PRC as part of a global, concerted and extralegal […]
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has opened a new office complex built and named after the late COAS, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. The office accommodation is located at the Headquarters of Joint Task Force, North East, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) in Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, […]
Considering the success of the N200 million fund disbursement to artisanal miners, the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development may expand the programme to benefit more small scale miners. Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development. said this when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) flagship Forum […]
Financial experts have tasked the Federal Government to improve the ease of doing business and invest more in the education sector as a panacea for lifting 100 million Nigerians from poverty. They disclosed this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. They said that showing more […]
President Joe Biden arrived in Ohio on Wednesday mindful the days for actual bipartisan governing in Washington are quickly waning. Throughout his CNN town hall, he voiced again and again his conviction that Republicans will come along, even though some are poisoned by conspiracies and others, he said, are “lying” on his record. He was confronted […]
Four US drugs giants have agreed to pay $26bn (£19bn) to settle claims they helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. Under the proposal unveiled by a group of state attorney generals on Wednesday, three drugs distributors are expected to pay $21bn. Drug-maker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will pay $5bn over the next five […]
A measure that would have allowed the United States Senate to begin debating a $1 trillion package of spending on roads, public transit, broadband, and more was defeated on a party line vote Wednesday afternoon, adding another link to the yearslong chain of failed attempts to rebuild the country’s critical infrastructure. But the […]