Category: World News

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is leading the contemporary global fight against smoking via the theme, ‘Grow Food, Not Tobacco’. It is a campaign to make tobacco farmers shift to food crops, thereby phasing tobacco products out of local and global markets. As the world marks World No Tobacco Day on Wednesday, May 31, the […]

The banana which has become a global staple food today was unknown to London until this day 390 years ago. Historical accounts have it that Banana was first placed on sale in a London shop on April 10, 1633. The pioneer salesman was identified as Thomas Johnson, described as a herbalist, botanist and merchant who […]

Two people have been killed in an attempted heist of more than N14.7bn ($32m) in cash aboard a plane from Miami in Chile. Chile’s Interior Subsecretary Manuel Monsalve confirmed the incident that occurred on Wednesday, March 8. About 10 heavily armed robbers were able to scale security barriers to get to the runway at the […]

An Exceptional Nigerian engineer has broken a 50-year-old record and becomes the first African to bag first class in Japanese university. The man, Ufot Ekong graduated with first class from the Electrical and Electronic engineering department at Tokai University, Japan. Ufot Ekong also gained his Master of Engineering (M.engr.) in Electrical and electronic engineering and […]

A teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News in the United States has “life-threatening injuries” after being shot by one of her students. The shooting happened on Friday after an altercation between the student and the teacher, officials said. The boy who shot the teacher once with a handgun at about 2 p.m., was […]

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has increased the premium rate for motor insurances in Nigeria effective 1st January 2023. This is according to a circular signed by Leo Akah, the NAICOM head of policy and regulation. In the new directive, private vehicles now paying N5,000 premium for N1 million Third Party Property Damage (TPPD) limit, […]

Award winning best Child Actor, Malachi Okonkwo has been Inaugurated as Elegantflix 3D Magazine Ambassador. The Young Nigerian who was honoured as Best Child Actor  by BEFFTA in 2018 in the  Youngest Male Youth category, was named  the newest Brand Ambassador to ElegantFlix Magazine in London over the weekend. Malachi thanked Dr. Pauline Long, founder […]

Nigeria has been listed among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teachers through the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) in the United Kingdom. The opportunity opens in February 2023. Other foreign countries which the offer extends to are Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. A notice on the […]

The Indonesian Government has passed a legislation banning citizens and foreigners from indiscriminate intercourse. The Parliament on Tuesday approved the new criminal code which bans indiscriminate sex with a punishment of up to one year in jail. The new code, which was approved unanimously by parliament, replaces a framework that had been in use since […]

Nigeria has slipped to seventh position on the crude oil production list of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). This is according to the organisation’s Monthly Oil Market Report for November which examined oil production performance in October. Nigeria’s output was a mere 1.014 million barrels per day in October, ranking seventh after Saudi Arabia, […]