Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) on Friday concluded a one-week training on waterway safety for 100 pupils in riverine communities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training was the second edition and tagged, “Lagos Water Savvy Kids Programme”. LASWA partnered with Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Dolphin Swim School […]
Google has announced the emergence of a sextape involving Nigerian favorite pop star, Tiwa Savage, as among the top trending searches on Google in October. The conclusion of the much-anticipated boxing bout between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder also piqued the interest of Nigerian sports fans on Google. Google announced this in its October search […]
Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov was required to pay nearly $509 million to settle US charges of tax evasion, the US Justice Department said Friday. The banking and investment tycoon paid the back taxes and fine after pleading guilty on October 1 to felony charges of concealing more than $1 billion in assets to avoid paying […]
The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) says it received and censored a total number of 375 movies produced by the Nigerian film industry, also known as Nollywood, in the third quarter of the year. The Special Assistant on Media to the Executive Director/CEO, NFVCB, Mr Joshua Olomu, made this known in a report […]
Tongans have been rushing to vaccinate themselves against coronavirus after the Pacific island nation confirmed its first case on Friday. The infection was detected in a fully vaccinated person who had arrived on a repatriation flight from New Zealand. Tonga’s Prime Minister Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa warned that residents on the main island of Tongatapu face a […]
Wages jumped in the three months ending in September by the most on records dating back 20 years, a stark illustration of the growing ability of workers to demand higher pay from companies that are desperate to fill a near-record number of available jobs. Pay increased 1.5% in the third quarter, the Labor Department said […]
If you’re a fan wanting to express your devotion to the hit Korean Netflix show Squid Game – well, there’s a cryptocurrency for that. Gamers have created an online version of the programme, for which you need the Squid cryptocurrency to play. On Tuesday, it was worth a modest 1 cent, but by Friday it […]
The Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Africa, Mr Mahamat Saled, made the pledge when he paid a courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Thursday, in Abuja. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Saled commended […]
Amazon has said it will spend several billion dollars to manage labour shortages and supply chain issues in the run-up to Christmas. The online retail giant said it was doing “whatever it takes to minimise the impact” on customers and sellers. Meanwhile, Apple said a shortage of semiconductor chips had cost it $6bn (£4.35bn) in […]
The 2021 Conference of Parties (COP26) summit aims to protect and restore nature while following the best available science on climate change, says Catriona Laing, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria. Represented by Ben Llewellyn-Jones, the Deputy High Commissioner at the Commission, Laing told a press conference of the UK’s ambitions for COP26 and what […]