•Electric vehicle Global electric vehicle sales grew 21% year-on-year in July, the slowest rate since January and down from 25% in June, as momentum in plug-in hybrid sales in China slackened, market research firm Rho Motion said today. China is the world’s biggest car market and accounts for more than half of global EV sales, […]
•Burna Boy, Luke Combs and Travis Scott The global music industry raked in a record $29.6 billion last year as online streaming propelled revenues to their highest level since records began in the 1990s, new figures showed on Wednesday. Industry bigwigs at the launch of the annual IFPI report in London said paid streaming models […]
Multiple US airlines said they were beginning to resume operations today following a major worldwide computer systems outage that grounded or delayed thousands of flights across the country. The IT issue has wrought global havoc at airports, grounding flights in Europe and the United States, while also derailing television broadcasts in the UK...
Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows workstations across the globe. Users on the subreddit for cyber security firm Crowdstrike reported issues in India, the United States and New Zeala...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced an increase in cholera cases in several regions of the world. It also disclosed that almost 195,000 cases and over 1,900 deaths reported in 24 countries since the start of 2024. This was revealed in a statement yesterday, stating that there are no reported cases in the Western […]
•Tinubu A report released by Amnesty International, AI, yesterday, raised global concern on the state of human rights in Nigeria and other countries. The report tagged ‘The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2024’ basically focused on sanctions against the media and criminal charges against journalists for alleged defamation; Defence and...
UN chief, Antonio Guterres The UN yesterday highlighted the need to defend women’s rights which were under threat, citing a reversal in hard-won progress, increasing violence against women and a growing digital gender divide. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said this at the opening of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of...
•Global warming Last month was the warmest February on record globally, the ninth straight month of historic high temperatures across the planet as climate change steers the world into “uncharted territory”, Europe’s climate monitor said today. The last year has seen an onslaught of storms, crop-withering drought and devastating fires, as huma...
•Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala The World Trade Organisation, yesterday, charged Nigeria and other African countries to improve the quality of their shea exports, as a lot of the commodities do not meet the sanitary and phytosanitary measures required for export. It also pointed out that despite the clear benefits and advantages in the production of shea...
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...
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