A Social Media Platform for Africans by Africans set for launch May 10
April 27, 2021 MY! A social media platform is set to be launched in May 2021. “Having developed the app over a period of two years, with a series of…
Italian police target Nigerian Mafia group, Black Axe; arrest 99 in other operations
Security forces in Italy on Monday detained dozens of people across the country in a crackdown on Mafia organisations in a new onslaught against crime, including suspected members of Nigerian…
U.S Advises Citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria over banditry, terrorism, others, lists 14 high risk states
April 24, 2021 The United States government has advised its citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria over .security threats in some parts of the country to crime, terrorism, civil unrest,…
COVID-19: 16.6m African children miss measles vaccine doses since Jan. 2020 – WHO
April 23, 2021 The World Health Organization (WHO) says about 16.6 million children in Africa missed planned supplemental measles vaccine doses between January 2020 and April 2021 due to the…
Pfizer Confirms Fake Vaccine Shots On Sale In Mexico, Poland
April 22, 2021 US drugmaker Pfizer on Wednesday confirmed that suspect doses of its coronavirus vaccine that were seized in Mexico and Poland were indeed fake, with doses going for…
WHO launches initiative to eradicate malaria in 25 countries by 2025
April 22, 2021 The World Health Organisation (WHO) is launching a new initiative which aims to halt transmission of malaria in 25 more countries by 2025. The initiative is to…
U.S. senators question Apple and Google on app store dominance
April 22, 2021 A panel of U.S. senators questioned officials from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the…
Huge global disparities in electric car ownership – study
April 22, 2021 Europe and China dominate the world market for electric cars, but there are still very few electrified vehicles on the roads in large markets like Russia, South…
U.N. rights chief says George Floyd murder case shows scale of systemic racism
April 21, 2021 The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday welcomed as “momentous” the verdict in the George Floyd case which she said had highlighted how much remains to…
Nigeria beware: Chinese vessel bearing radioactive materials ordered to leave Sri Lanka
Nigerian ports managers must be on the alert as a Chinese vessel, carrying radioactive material which entered a port in southern Sri Lanka without declaring the cargo, has been ordered…