The extreme heat in the Mediterranean region continued to trigger wildfires, with dozens of people killed in Algeria, Greece, Italy and Turkey in recent days. The weather system, nicknamed “Lucifer,” has unleashed record temperatures, and on Thursday it was moving slowly west toward Spain and Portugal. A weather station near the town of […]
The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) says it will hold the South-South Tourism Stakeholders’ interactive forum to ensure the growth of the tourism, travel and hospitality industry in the country. NTDC’s Director-General, Mr Folorunsho Coker, said this in a statement he issued in Abuja. He noted that the forum would hold on Aug. […]
Arrival is probably the most valuable electric vehicle company you’ve never heard of. Based in the UK and listed on the US Nasdaq stockmarket, it is worth $8bn (£5.7bn). But it isn’t making cars, it is focusing on commercial vehicles – vans, buses and taxis. Instead of setting up huge factories to build as […]
Green Africa, Nigeria’s Lagos-based value airline, officially commenced commercial flights as inaugural flight arrived at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja amid low fare of N16,500. The airline’s Brand Marketing Specialist, Mrs Oyindamola Fashogbon, made this known in a statement in Lagos on Friday. Fashogbon said the airline commenced its first flight operations […]
Britney Spears’ father said in a court filing Thursday that he was planning to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years, but his departure is not imminent. James Spears filed legal documents saying that while there were no grounds for his removal, he would step down after […]
Usman Dagona, a 200 level Chemistry student at the Federal University, Gashua, Yobe, has invented a mini spying wireless car. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the car is currently ranked third with 274 points on the voting scoreboard of 2021 Create the Future Design Contest sponsored by COMSOL and Mouser […]
Indonesia has formally apologised over the manhandling of a Nigerian diplomat in the South-East Asia country. A viral of video of Mr. Mohammed Buba, an accredited Nigerian diplomat, being rough-handled by Indonesian immigration officials, had surfaced online earlier, prompting Nigeria to threaten to review its relationship with the country. “The Ministry of Foreign […]
The Federal Government has allayed the fears of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) workers of any lay-offs as plans to concession four major international airports in the country get underway. Aviation minister Hadi Sirika gave the assurance at a virtual meeting with aviation stakeholders in Lagos, on Wednesday, on the concession […]
A construction industry expert, Mr Temitope Runsewe has called for the establishment of more data centres and logistics parks within Nigeria to service both government and privately owned businesses. Runsewe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday, that the need for such centres had become even more necessary in […]
The hacker behind one of the largest cryptocurrency heists to date has returned almost half of the $600m (£433m) stolen assets. On Tuesday, the firm affected, Poly Network wrote a letter on Twitter, asking the individual to get in touch “to work out a solution”. The hacker then posted messages pledging to return […]