News as it breaks
Mrs Kikelomo Chibeze, the Project Manager, VET-Toolbox, has said that the organisation alongside with Julius Berger Plc would orgnise pilot training programmes for 1,000 cashew farmers in the country. Chibeze said this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, adding that the beneficiaries would be trained with the sole…
A cashew nut processing expert, Mr Pankaj Chawla, says aging trees remain the major challenge to cashew nut business, both for local consumption and export purposes in Nigeria. Chawla, who is the Country Representative of Valency International Agro Limited, said this on Wednesday at a training for Wild Organic Cashew…
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran on April 6, 2022, won his copyright trial at London’s High Court after a judge ruled that his hit song “Shape of You” did not lift musical phrases from another track. Judge Antony Zacaroli said that, Sheeran “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied a phrase from British…
The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has mandated one of the federation’s sub-committees to “within the next five days” recommend a new coaching crew for the Super Eagles. This mandate is one of the decisions the Committee took at its first formal meeting since Nigeria’s failure to qualify…
The US announced new sanctions today onRussian financial institutions and individuals, including Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters, as it aims to increase economic pressure on Russia and Putin himself following horrific images from the Ukrainian city of Bucha. The US also announced sanctions on the wife and daughter…
Nigerian-born student who died in the United Kingdom after eating cannabis sweets she bought from a messaging app have gone viral. The student, 23, identified as Damilola Grace Olakanmi was a business law undergraduate at the University of Hertfordshire. She was said to have bought the “gummies” via a messaging…
ANAMBRA State governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has set up a 15-member truth, justice and peace committee he promised, as part of his administration’s effort to return a lasting peace in the state. The list, which is headed by a former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Professor Chidi Odinkalu,…
The NYSC FCT Coordinator, Alhaji Suleman Abdul, has warned corps members not induce rejection at their places of primary assignment.The Coordinator gave the warning today while debriefing corps members deployed to FCT for the 2022 Batch ‘A’ Stream II orientation course; adding that such act of indiscipline is punishable according…
Single Aussie gay man makes history with the birth of his own baby boy: ‘It’s a love like I’ve never experienced before’ A Melbourne naturopath is finally enjoying his lifelong dream of fatherhood after a long and painstaking journey stacked with roadblocks. Shaun Resnik recently made history as the first…
Selena Gomez was dubbed the “queen of Instagram” as the most-followed celebrity on the social media platform back in 2016.Now, Gomez says she’s not been on the internet for four and a half years. “It has changed my life completely, Gomez told “Good Morning America.”“I am happier, I am more…
