Gerard Pique scored the vital goal to earn FC Barcelona a nervy 1-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv in Champions League Group E on Wednesday. The win keeps alive the Spanish side’s hopes of reaching the knockout rounds. Pique volleyed home Jordi Alba’s cross in the 36th minute to register...
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The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has said the series of measures introduced to curb impersonation and examination malpractices had started yielding positive results. Oloyede made the assertion on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, while delivering the 10th Annual lecture of the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a grant agreement worth $500,000 dollars with Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), a fintech subsidiary of MTN, for a study on the economic, religious and social factors hampering access to finance by women in northern Nigeria. This is contained in a statement...
Nigeria ranks 50 out over 180 countries globally in cyberspace security, Prof. Adesina Sodiya, President, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), said on Wednesday in Lagos. Speaking at the Information Technology Systems Security Professionals (ITSSP) conference, Sodiya, said that Nigeria was not doing badly in the cyber security space and could...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Women street sweepers in Cross River State on Wednesday took to the streets to protest over the non payment of their six months salaries. This is coming barely ten days after the organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Joint Public Negotiating...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) on Wednesday said piracy had decreased by 77% on Nigerian waters in the first nine months of 2021. The Director General of NIMASA, Dr Bashir Jamoh, said in a statement on Wednesday that the reduction was...
The National Industrial Court, sitting in Owerri, has ordered the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to maintain the status quo ante over the current leadership crisis rocking the Abia chapter. According to the court’s ruling made available to newsmen in Umuahia on Wednesday, the Presiding Judge, Justice I.S. Galadima ordered...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has screened 33 candidates seeking election into the office of the national chairman and other various positions in the party’s national convention. The aspirants were examined on Wednesday in Abuja by the screening committee led by a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Civil Society Organisation under the auspices of Action Group on Free Civic Space has called on the Federal Government to bring to book all erring security officers indicted at the various Judiciary Commission of Inquiry on the #EndSARS movement. Mr Rafiu Adeniran Lawal of...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Nigeria, Turkey trade volume will be expanded by five billion dollars, immediately, to further boost socio-economic ties between the two countries. Erdogan stated this when he addressed newsmen at the end of a closed door bilateral meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Dutse – The Jigawa State and Local Government Contributory Pension Scheme, has commenced the payment of N331 million retirement benefits to 200 retirees in the state. Briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Dutse, The Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Kamilu Aliyu, said that the payment comprised...
A US Supreme Court justice has rejected a request by health workers in Maine to block a statewide vaccine mandate, while their wider legal challenge against the measure proceeds. All healthcare workers in the state will have to be fully vaccinated under the mandate, which comes into force on...
More than 100 people have died following several days of massive flooding and landslides in India and Nepal, officials said Wednesday, with scores more missing. In Uttarakhand in northern India, officials said that 46 people had died in recent days with 11 missing. In Kerala in the south chief...
Insurance companies will eventually pay about N20 billion in compensations to losses recorded at the October 2020 #EndSARS protests. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday, Chairman of the Nigeria Insurance Association (NIA), Mr Ganiyu Musa, said the companies had paid claims totalling N9...
Pastor Jeff Okoroafor, Head Minister, Jesus Fellowship, Civic Centre Lekki, says Nigerian Youths should protest via votes during elections and not on the streets. Okoroafor said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, in reaction to planned anniversary protest by organisers of the...
The Federal Government has demanded an apology from Amnesty International, CNN and DJ Switch for misleading the world that there was a massacre at the Lekki Toll Gate on Oct. 20, 2020. DJ Switch whose given name is Obianuju Udeh is a Nigerian disc jockey, who is on self-imposed...
The Federal Government has said 11 states out of 28 states have submitted their respective final reports of Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the 2020 #EndSARS protest and its aftermaths. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at a media briefing...
The Lagos4Lagos Movement, a factional group within the ruling APC in Lagos State, has called on the national body to address all grievances within the party ahead of 2023 general elections. Mr Sunday Ajayi, the newly-elected factional chairman in Lagos APC, told newsmen on Wednesday in Ikeja that the...
Ethiopian Airlines partners with Aero HygenX for deployment of autonomous UV-C disinfecting solution
Ethiopian Airlines partners with Aero HygenX for deployment of autonomous UV-C disinfecting solution
Ethiopian Airlines Group and Aero HygenX executives, inventors of RAY – an autonomous aircraft sanitization robot – have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining a plan for fleetwide deployment and regional marketing of Aero HygenX’s autonomous UV-C light disinfecting robot. The virtual signing of this MoU marks a first...