A United States-Nigerian Technology Company, WRKR Technology Inc., has promised to train 50,000 Nigerians on its skills that would make them globally competitive for employment opportunities. WRKR is a technology company that unlocks access to work opportunities, making it easier for people to securely store and share their skills and employment data. Founder/CEO of WRKR Technology Inc, Mr Preston Obadan, in an interview in Abuja on Saturday, said the training would be for both graduates and undergraduates in the country. He added that the company was on a mission to equip 50,000 young people across Nigeria campuses, by assessing and…
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Nadezhda Sayfutdinova sewn her own mouth shut before taking to the streets in the eastern city of Yekaterinburg to protest at the way Putin’s government had cracked down on public protest A Russian woman faces prosecution after sewing her mouth shut in protest about censorship of protests against the war in Ukraine. Police snatched protestor Nadezhda Sayfutdinova in the eastern city of Yekaterinburg, using “brute force” to try to get her locked in a psychiatric facility. Ms Sayfutdinova has managed to avoid being sectioned but she is still expected to face prosecution for discrediting the Russian armed forces. The activist,…
Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Friday, inaugurated a 5.4 kilometre Amagunze road, constructed by one of the governorship aspirants in the state, Everest Nnaji. Popularly known as Odengene, Nnaji took his philanthropy to an entirely new level by personally embarking on the construction of the 5.4km, which was commissioned by the Enugu state governor, Ugwuanyi. The singular act is still revibrating across the length and breath of the state as the people kept saying “we haven’t seen anything like this,” while prayers, blessings and encomiums continue. Commissioning the project, Governor Ugwuanyi said this is a “wonderful project deserving of…
A $700 million superyacht linked to Vladimir Putin has refueled after undergoing repairs in Italy and could set sail any day, a report by New York Times says. The Scheherazade has been refuelled, restocked, and stripped of protective screening, per The Times. The yacht is currently docked in Italy, a member of the EU which has seized some Russian assets. A luxury superyacht that US officials have linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been refueled after spending months in an Italian harbor for repairs and could set sail any day, The New York Times reported. The Scheherazade, a 459-foot…
Airline operators say they will shut down operations on Monday, May 9, due to high cost of aviation fuel and other operational costs. The information was conveyed in a letter signed by the President, Airline Operators Association, Captain Serina Abdulmunaf and addressed to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, on Friday in Lagos. He noted that overtime, aviation fuel price (JetA1) had risen from N190 per litre to N700 currently, and described the rise as “astronomical” “While aviation fuel worldwide is said to constitute about 40 per cent of an airline’s operating cost globally,…
The Minister of State for Works and Housing, Muazu Sambo says there is a provision of N3 billion Sukuk fund in 2022 by the federal government to finance the Numan- Jalingo Road in Adamawa and Taraba states. Sambo announced this on Saturday during an inspection of federal road projects within Taraba and Adamawa states. He gave the assurance that once the Sukuk fund was accessed within a shot time, there would be remarkable progress at the construction site. “The 103 kilometre Numan- Jalingo road is part of the Maiduguri –Calabar Highway. “The section of the road that is not motorable…
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has welcomed the decision of the United Kingdom government to finally accept Nigeria’s classification of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a terrorist organisation. “We recall that following widespread killings, destructions and other acts of lawlessness, the Nigerian government had designated IPOB a terrorist group in 2017,” said CNG’s Spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman in a statement on Friday. Suleiman also asked authorities both local and foreign to consider moving against the so called Igbo leaders who have been asking President Muhammadu Buhari for the release of the terror group leader Nnamdi Kanu as accomplices.…
The Arewa Consultation Forum (ACF) has cautioned southern politicians to desist from the blackmail and threat against the northern part of the country. The Secretary General of the forum, Murtala Aliyu in a statement on Friday, decried the fact that the southern politicians frustrate all efforts at achieving justice, equity and fair-play in anything and every thing in which the north has superiority or advantage. He noted that the southern politicians have issued ultimatum against their northern counterparts with threats of secession, restructuring, or break up of the country if a president of the northern extraction is elected come 2023.…
The Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Sanusi Garba says the commission has not approved any new tariff rate review in recent times. Garba told newsmen in Abuja on Friday, that the last tariff review was approved on December 31, 2021, and became effective in February 2022. “I want to, on behalf of the management of NERC, clearly state that as of today, we have not approved any rate review and no indication that any Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) is increasing its tariff. “If you notice that the rate you buy tariff has changed within the last one to three…
Anambra state governor, Charles Soludo has said that the gunmen that were terrorising the state and other parts of the southeast region, are criminals not agitators, and the state government will soon be dealt with. Addressing landlords on Thursday, Soludo said the so-called ‘unknown gunmen’ were not unknown as they claimed to be but were yet to be exposed because they were being pampered by landlords and other stakeholders. He described them as criminals and not agitators, warning that they will soon be harshly dealt with by his government. He admonished them to come out of hiding and embrace dialogue…