News as it breaks
More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster’s full extent is still unclear. Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading more than four days since the first quake. …
Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu remains missing in Turkey after devastating earthquakes struck the country and Syria, his club has told news agencies, despite earlier reports that he had been rescued. On Tuesday, Atsu, 31, was reported to have been pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Turkey’s…
Twitter was blocked for at least 12 hours on major Turkish mobile providers in an outage that ended early Thursday, following a flurry of online criticism of the government’s response to this week’s deadly earthquake. By about 5 am (0200 GMT), the social media site was accessible again. …
The first convoy of UN aid for opposition-held north-west Syria since Monday’s devastating earthquake has crossed into the region from Turkey. The UN said six lorries carrying shelter and relief supplies had gone through Idlib’s Bab al-Hawa crossing. The shipment had been due before the disaster, which caused damage…
The National Universities Commission, NUC, has directed the closure of all universities and inter-university centres between February 22nd and March 14. NUC said there would be no academic activities during the shutdown. The announcement was made in a statement signed by the Deputy Executive Secretary (Administration), Chris Maiyaki.…
Italian skier Elena Fanchini has died aged 37 after a battle with cancer, the Italian Winter Sports Federation said. Elena Fanchini (30 April 1985 – 8 February 2023) was an Italian alpine ski racer. She was born in Val Camonica, and focused on the speed events of downhill and…
Some Twitter users were unable to tweet on Wednesday after the website experienced technical problems. Late Wednesday afternoon, Twitter began experiencing international outages, with many users unable to perform basic functions like tweeting, sending direct messages, and following accounts. When users wanted to tweet, an error message was generated…
The Director General of NYSC, Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed says deliberate efforts are being made to ensure adequate protection of Corps Members especially those that will be involved in the general election. General Yushau also advised Corps Members to maintain high level of discipline and avoid social vices especially…
Another breakthrough that was instrumental to this historical feat in the FIRS is the opening of 25 new satellite tax offices across the country as part of the agency’s goal to “bring tax services nearer to the taxpaying public while bringing FIRS nearer to the public”. According to the FIRS, the purpose of the new tax offices was to “help bring many taxpayers into the tax net, help fill companies income tax, and value added tax as well as monitor compliance with other taxes,”
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Governor Godwin Emefiele of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in Aso Rock, Abuja. The meeting is holding hours after the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, ruled to stop the February 10 deadline for the validity of three old naira notes. Recall that an interim…
