Google partners to expand digital skills program to reach children in Nigeria, across SSA
Google has announced it is engaging local organisations via its partnership with the Cape Town Science Centre to train 200,000 students in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa within 1 year….
UN is broke, runs on $1.3bn deficit; US, 63 other nations yet to pay 2019 dues
The United Nations is broke and may not be able to pay staff salaries and other obligations by end of this month if United States and other nations refuse to…
Nigerians must pay 7.5% VAT, insists Buhari; exempts food items, MSMEs
President Muhammadu Buhari says the 7.5 percent VAT is inevitable, stressing that the Finance Bill 2019 he forwarded to the National Assembly, when passed into law, will permit government to…
Airtel Africa to link 100m customers to MasterCard in Nigeria, 13 African countries
It’s a deal: Airtel Africa has partnered with MasterCard to transform digital payment landscape and connect over 100 million Airtel mobile phone users across Nigeria and 13 other African countries…
VP woos Scandinavian investors at Nordic-African Business Summit
The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, in consolidating efforts made in its first term, is committed to expanding opportunities for investments in renewable energy, technology and other sectors of the…
I have directed stoppage of salary of any FG staff not captured on the IPPIS – Buhari
Any Federal Government worker not captured on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) by Oct. 31 would not be paid his monthly salary. President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this…
2020 budget: Works, Power get highest allocation
The Ministry of Works and Housing on Tuesday got the highest projected allocation of N262 billion from the N10. 33 trillion budget estimates. This was contained in the proposal as…
University of Ghana interdicts two lecturers involved in BBC sex-for-grade video
Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Kwame Butakor have been interdicted by the University of Ghana (UG) following the BBC’s “Sex for Grades” documentary. The two lecturers from the University…
Delta to build film village, pleasure park; backs tolling of roads
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta said on Tuesday that the state government would build a pleasure park and a film village to enhance recreation and promote tourism in the state….
Without water and land, astronauts grow not-so-tasty meat in space
Israeli food startup Aleph Farms on Tuesday announced that it had successfully grown meat in space but that the taste needs to be improved. “In a joint experiment on #InternationalSpaceStation,…