An estimated $2 trillion are lost by the global economy due to tobacco use, Labram Musah, Executive Director, Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), a Ghana based Non Governmental Organization (NGO), has disclosed. Musah gave the hint during his presentation entitled: ‘SDGs as a Vital Data Source for Tobacco Control’ at a recent virtual tr...
•Heavily damaged houses and shops At least two people were killed and more than 200 injured in a massive fire when a truck laden with gas exploded in the Kenyan capital, a government spokesman said today. The explosion ignited a “huge ball of fire that spread widely”, Isaac Maigua Mwaura said on social media platform […]
•Billionaire Tope Awotona Forbes has named a 42-year-old man, Tope Awotona, as the richest immigrant and Nigerian-American residing in the United States. Awotona is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Calendly, a scheduling software company, worth $3 billion. He was born in Lagos but migrated to the US in his teenage years, and previous...
Three people were killed and nine injured after an under-construction hangar collapsed at the Boise Airport in Bosie, capital of Idaho, yesterday. The three died at the scene, and five of the nine injured are in critical condition, said the Boise Fire Department, reports AFP. The hangar, located on the airport property, was owned by […]
•Selina Robinson British Columbia, a province in Canada, has banned new colleges from enrolling international students, including students from Nigeria for two years. The province said its decision to place the ban was to address exploitative practices within the education system, reports AFP. British Columbia is a western province in Canada, ...
•(L-R ) The leader of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, Mali’s military leader Colonel Assimi Goita and Niger’s General Abdourahmane Tchiani. The African Union today said it feels ”deep regret” over the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS. The AU said its commission president, Moussa Faki Mahamat, “calls on regional leaders to i...
•Kate Osamor A British-Nigerian minister, MP Kate Osamor, has been suspended by the United Kingdom’s Labour Party after she accused Israel of genocide on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day. Osamor, however, has apologised for “any offence caused” over the message distributed to local party members on Friday. BBC reported that the chief whip sus...
•Spanish flag Spanish police yesterday said they had busted the owners of a funeral parlour in Valencia for allegedly selling dead bodies to university research departments for 1,200 euros per corpse. The four suspects, two owners and two employees, also helped the universities dispose of the bodies after they had been studied by incinerating ...
•Former Prime Minister Imran Khan (C) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, less than two weeks before the country votes in an election his party has been hamstrung from contesting. Khan’s sentence was handed down inside Adiala jail, where he has been confined for much of the […]
•Vladimir Putin Russia today officially registered incumbent Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the presidential election in March, a vote that he is all but certain to win. The 71-year-old has led Russia since the turn of the century, clinching four presidential ballots and briefly serving as prime minister in a system where opposition has [&h...
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