A federal bankruptcy judge ruled that Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, will be dissolved under a settlement deal and that its owners, members of the Sackler family, will pay out more than $4 billion to address the opioid epidemic that’s killed more than 500,000 Americans. Judge Robert Drain called […]
Twitter on Wednesday launched a long-promised “Super Follows” feature that lets creators sell subscriptions for access to special content. The move came as Twitter strives to be a preferred online venue for clickable stars and to boost its own income in ways that don’t clutter the platform up with ads or promotions. Influencers […]
Tourism Ministers from Africa have agreed to speak with one voice to let the world know that the continent is being unfairly treated in the area of COVID-19 Vaccines distribution. The ministers reached the consensus at a meeting in Sal Island, Cape Verde to ratify the agenda for their 64th Conference of United Nations […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Customs has given the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) two weeks to reduce its 18 cargo clearing stages to four. The committee made the resolution on Tuesday, in Abuja, after an interactive session with stakeholders. It insisted that the Comptroller General of Customs should appear in person to […]
The International Committee of the Red Cross says more than 48,000 people are missing across Africa, and at least 21,600 are minors. Most of the registered disappearances — widely believed to be a fraction of the continent’s wider, undocumented humanitarian tragedy — are linked to armed conflict, violence, disasters and migration across the […]
The global shortage of computer chips has had a significant impact on the car industry and is unlikely to improve before the end of the year, according to Vauxhall Motors. Vauxhall’s managing director, Paul Willcox, told the BBC that the industry was facing a “problem” for the next two or three months. However, […]
The Federal Government has commenced a new collaboration with the United Nations systems in Nigeria to prioritise interventions in the area of human rights in the country. At a dialogue which opened in Abuja on Tuesday, the two parties commenced talks on how to ensure better protection of rights, as well as the […]