A flight attendant working for one of Britain’s top airlines suffered a blow to her career over one peculiar video and a possible attempt to boost her income. British Airways management has grounded one of the company’s cabin crew members after becoming aware of a striptease video made by her. In the video obtained by […]
Author: Isaac Umunna
Denzel Washington Says Black Panther’s Success Made Him Cry
For those of you who don’t know, the theatrical run of the pic came to an end last weekend, with the eighteenth Marvel Cinematic Universe film hauling in more than $700 million domestically, and approximately $1.34 billion worldwide. Although, the profound impact made by T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and director Ryan Coogler is still reverberating throughout […]
Box Office: Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission Impossible 6’ Races past $500M Worldwide
Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout zoomed past the $500 million worldwide. That includes a new domestic total of $180m after 24 days of North American release. The Paramount/Viacom Inc. action sequel fell just 46% this weekend. That’s a larger drop/smaller gross than the fourth weekend of Rogue Nation, but the likes of Mile 22 […]
Iran says no OPEC member can take its quota, envoy meets Barkindo
Iran told OPEC on Sunday no member country should be allowed to take over another member’s share of oil exports, expressing Tehran’s concern about Saudi Arabia’s offer to pump more oil in the face of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil sales. In a meeting with OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, a senior Iranian diplomat urged him […]
Disney accused of whitewashing Princess Tiana
Nine years after she turned into a frog, Princess Tiana has undergone another strange transformation. Fans think the African-American princess is looking off in the trailer for the “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel. Hair and skin appear lighter. The Princess and the Frog heroine, still Disney’s only African-American princess, makes a cameo appearance in Ralph Breaks the […]
2018 Toyota Sienna Comes up Short in Crash Testing
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or IIHS, has released results from its latest round of passenger-side small overlap front crash testing. Out of the three minivans tested, the Toyota Sienna performed the worst in the new trial. According to the IIHS, Toyota made changes to the driver side in 2015 to improve protection but […]
Total renews pact with Rivers communities
Total Exploration and Production of Nigeria (TEPNG) yesterday assured its host communities in Rivers State of prompt release of funds to implement the company’s responsibility in the new Memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed with them. Total’s Deputy Managing Director (DMD), Port Harcourt District, Francois Le Cocq, spoke during the signing of the MOU with Rumuogba […]
Deadline looms as Nigeria face football ban
Nigeria have less than 48 hours to sort out the running of their football federation if they want to avoid the possibility of being banned by FIFA from international soccer, including exclusion from next month’s African Nations Cup qualifiers. Soccer’s governing body issued the country with a final warning due to alleged state interference in […]
West Africa Crude: Key Nigerian programmes emerge amid overhang
Loading programmes for Nigeria’s largest streams emerged on Friday but an overhang of some 30 cargoes persisted, while traders waited for allocations following the final Angolan programme. * A surplus of light crude has been building up over the last month with North Sea traders struggling to sell millions of barrels from floating storage. * […]
NSE market capitalisation inches N236 billion
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) recorded the first gain for the week with the market capitalisation increasing by N236 billion on Friday. The market capitalisation inched N236 billion of 1.87 per cent to close at N12.874 trillion against N12.638 trillion achieved on Thursday. Also, the All-Share Index rose by 649.57 points or 1.88 per cent […]