Food and Agriculture Organization of the Nations (FAO) has estimated that 25.3 million Nigerians are in danger of experiencing food crisis between June and August 2023 unless urgent steps are taken to scale up and sustain livelihood and food assistance. FAO said this was contained in its October 2022 Food and Nutrition Analysis. The analysis […]
Meta has threatened to remove news content from Facebook in the US. It objects to a new law that would give news organisations greater power to negotiate fees for content shared on Facebook. A similar law, passed in Australia, led to news on Facebook being briefly suspended last year. Meta claims their platform, in fact, […]
An off-the-cuff tweet by Elon Musk has left Bulgarians over the moon, hoping the world’s richest man may be planning to visit the EU’s poorest region. The Tesla, SpaceX and now Twitter boss — who is not immune to bouts of online whimsy — recently commented on an image of the towering Belogradchik Rocks in […]
Britain’s royals are braced for Netflix’s six-part docuseries on Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, after the first extracts reignited a simmering row with his brother William. Thursday’s fly-on-the-wall documentary follows Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, as their strained relationship with his family unravelled. It is billed as the couple lifting the lid on what […]
Global renewable power capacity is set to grow as much in the next five years as it has over the past two decades, as soaring energy prices and the climate crisis force governments to ditch fossil fuels. In a report published Tuesday, the International Energy Agency forecast a sharp acceleration in installations of renewable power. […]
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has resumed operations at the Kaduna-Abuja railway, eight months after they were suspended. Meanwhile, there was a low turnout of passengers which was owing largely to the short resumption notice while security presence was high. Some of the security operatives who spoke to Channels Television, assured of passengers’ safety while […]
In a determined effort to deepen the long-standing bilateral relations between Nigeria and Vietnam, both countries plan to work together more, particularly in the areas of digital economy, telecommunications, agriculture and trade, among others, for the mutual benefit of the citizens. The need for improved collaboration between Nigeria and Vietnam was the focus of the […]
Amid the lingering fuel scarcity in some of the busiest cities in the country such as Lagos State and Abuja, the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has decried the poor supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to its members. This is despite the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) last week placing the […]
Oil prices have risen amid concerns that a new cap on the price of Russian crude could disrupt global supplies in the coming months. A separate decision by major oil-producing countries to keep cutting how much they produce to prop up prices has also fuelled the rise. The price of Brent crude oil rose by […]
One of the UK’s largest accountancy firms will close most of its offices over Christmas and New Year for the first time to save on energy bills. PwC, which employs about 24,000 people, will shut its main London office from 23 December to 3 January, as well as some smaller sites. Its chairman Kevin Ellis […]