Leanne Cahill knows she is a rare breed – a woman from a working-class background, with a physical disability leading a well-known High Street chain. There are still remarkably few women at the top of the UK’s biggest retail businesses, she points out. “We are overdue a revolution,” she has said previously, considering […]
A few days before the commemoration of the attacks of September 11, two more victims killed in the attacks in New York have been officially identified, thanks to new DNA sequencing technology, the city announced on Tuesday. The head of the New York Forensic Institute said in a statement that her laboratory had […]
The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Federal Government of Nigeria to an Abia State High Court, over what he described as violations of his human rights. The Federal Government, the Nigeria Army, the Department of State Service (DSS), and the Nigeria police are […]
Qatar has granted academic scholarships to members of a girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan dubbed the “Afghan Dreamers,” the Persian Gulf nation’s education and science foundation said on Tuesday. Qatar has been instrumental in efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghans and foreigners from Kabul airport, including members of the team who are being housed […]
El Salvador has become the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender in a move that has got the nation and the world debating the opportunities and dangers of cryptocurrency. From today, businesses will be obliged where possible to accept the controversial digital coins as payment. Millions of people are expected to […]
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has said that through effective policies the Federal Government will provide an enabling environment for research results to thrive. This is contained in a statement issued by Josephine Ademu, Press and Public Relations Officer of the ministry, on Tuesday in Abuja. At a […]
Global Wissen Consult, a Sweden-Nigerian firm is partnering with education experts in Nigeria to boost digital education and enhance skills acquisition for youths through digital programmes in the country. Oscar Nwokeji, Co-founder of the firm, said at a stakeholder’s roundtable that its goal was to address digital illiteracy in the country and digitize […]
The military leaders who seized power and dissolved Guinea’s National Assembly said Monday they would set up a transitional government. The details of the promised transition were not immediately clear, but they followed widespread condemnation of the coup from the international community. In a speech the day after his men declared on national […]
The Federal Government will continue to provide measures and incentives to ensure that Nigeria’s investment incentives are profitable to foreign companies. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Belgium, Obinna Onowu, made this known in Brussels, during a ‘‘meet and greet’’ with members of the Belgium-Luxembourg-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce (BLNCC). This was disclosed in a statement issued […]
Furniture giant Ikea is struggling to supply about 1,000 product lines as a shortage of HGV drivers continues to hit businesses. The company said the shortage of products, including mattresses at some stores, was down to Covid and Brexit. Businesses ranging from flu vaccine suppliers to food and drink firms have also been […]