India’s rising output of COVID-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will resume being an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year. After donating or selling 66 million doses to nearly 100 countries, India barred exports in mid-April…
Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana and plunged New Orleans into darkness, killing at least one person. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm but weakened into a tropical storm on Monday. More than one million people in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power. President Joe Biden described…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has dismissed 10 staffers for publicizing an employee’s account of sexual assault allegations against a former manager, people familiar with the matter said, as the e-commerce giant moves to resolve a case that’s rocked China’s tech establishment. Alibaba announced internally last week it fired the group for sharing a harrowing account…
Several rockets have been fired at Kabul’s international airport, a day before the deadline for the US troops to pull out of Afghanistan ends. The White House, which confirmed the attack, said that evacuation operations at the airport were not interrupted, adding that US President Joe Biden was briefed about the latest rocket attack on…
Triple G Eco Revolution Solutions, a Non-Governmental Organisation, has stressedthe need to instill consciousness and discipline of taking good care of the environment in the heart of youths has been stressed. The Founder of the organisation, Mrs Oluwaseyi Ebenezer, made the call in an interview with on the sidelines of an award and dinner party…
The Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has paid tribute to movie veterans, who recently passed on. Mr Emeka Rollas, President of the Guild, in a statement on Saturday, said that the entire members of the guild were saddened by the loss of veteran actors: Ifeanyi Dike, Victor Olaotan and Doris Chima. “The news of the…
The Police Command in Plateau has described as fake speculations that unidentified persons have killed 230 Igbos in Jos. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, dismissed the report in statement on Sunday in Jos. The social media has been agog by reports that a luxurious bus conveying commuters of…
No fewer than 100 million African children have been vaccinated against polio in the past one year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti said that although COVID-19 had threatened the success of polio vaccination, it was possible to overcome the final hurdles. Moeti, in a statement,…
The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has described the death of Nigeria’s highlife music icon, Sir Victor Uwaifo, as a huge loss to the entertainment industry. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami, said in a statement on Sunday that Uwaifo would be missed by the university community. “He had an uncommon mastery of…
