President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic has honoured Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State with one of the country’s highest national awards. The governor’s media aide, Malam Yahaya Sarki, stated in Birnin-Kebbi, on Monday, that the neighbouring country bestowed the ‘Award of Excellence’ on Bagudu in Niamey on Saturday. Sarki added that the award was in […]
Since the beginning of space exploration, humanity has wondered whether there is life beyond earth or if there are any other planets suitable for life. Recently, explorers have found a couple more planets that may answer that question. An international team of astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, led by Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, […]
Billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk, has launched a Twitter poll asking users whether he should resign as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the social media platform. The results of the poll turned out to be against him, More than half of the 17.5 million users, who responded to Elon Musk’s poll on his potential resignation […]
South Korea’s corporate retirement pension grew in double digits last year with an increasing number of companies adopting the pension scheme, statistical office data showed on Monday. Corporate retirement pension funds under management amounted to 295 trillion won ($226.6 billion) in 2021. This showed an upward trend of $30.7 billion, or 15.7 per cent, from […]
By Our Correspondent Prof. Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy has met with world-leading communication technology stakeholders in Washington, in a bid to strengthen partnerships for the development of Nigeria’s economy. This is contained in a statement issued by Reuben Muoka, Director of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission and e-mailed […]
The legislative elections in Tunisia are conducted with full transparency, Farouk Bouaskar, President of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) said on Saturday. “Two hours after the polls opened 270,032 voters cast their ballots,” Bouasker said during a press conference held in Tunis. According to him, the African Union, the League of Arab States, […]
The United Nations, on Friday, said two UN peacekeepers, died and four others sustained injuries, in a gun attack in northern Mali. “Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a United Nations Police patrol” in Timbuktu town, the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali said in a statement. The mission added that it recovered some materials […]
By Our Correspondent The Federal Government has launched a fast-track service to enable Nigerians with expired passports, to return home without any hindrance. The Federal Ministry of Interior and the Nigeria Immigration Service initiated the service for implementation at all ports of entry. This is in continuation of the implementation of passport administration and immigration […]
South Korea’s corporate earnings more than doubled last year due to economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, statistical office data showed on Thursday. The pretax net income of 13,448 companies, which hired at least 50 regular employees and had 300 million won ($230,770) or more in paid-in capital, totalled 222.4 trillion won ($171 billion) in […]
Egypt and Greece agreed, on Tuesday, to build a subsea telecom cable in the Mediterranean connecting the two countries, Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said in a statement. Egypt’s telecom service and subsea cable operator Telecom Egypt and Greece’s network builder Grid Telecom signed the cooperation deal, the ministry said. It added that […]