WHAT FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON NEWSPAPER WROTE ABOUT TINUBU'S GOVT, NIGERIA

Financial Times, a UK based Newspaper, wrote in it's Tuesday (July 17, 2024) edition, that Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has forced bitter pills down the throats of his fellow countrymen through thoughtless fuel subsidy removal, one of the benefits receive from the state; allowed the country’s currency, the naira, to enter a freefall, fuelling imported inflation and triggering the worst cost of living crisis in a generation. The newspaper posits that shock therapy alone will not cure Nigeria's economic ills. It counsels that Tinubu's reforms need to be bolstered by a national strategy for growth.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BRITAIN'S QUEEN ELIZABETH 11 DIES?

'The Mystery Of Operation London Bridge Explained'

By Sirena He

Queen Elizabeth is the longest-living, longest-reigning monarch in British history, with her reign extending over 70 years. Now, with reports that Queen Elizabeth's doctors are concerned for her health, it's unfortunately time to revisit what will happen if the monarch dies.

WHO SAYS MEDICATION ERRORS KILL 3 MILLION ANNUALLY

The World Health Organisation, WHO, says medication errors contribute to more than three million deaths globally every year.

WHY AMERICA WILL ATTACK IRAN

By Hassan Gimba

"Today, nearly everything is made in China - except courage; it's made in Palestine." - Anthony Bourdain.

WHY NAIRA IS AMONG WORST PERFORMING CURRENCIES IN THE WORLD

The Nigerian currency has been ranked as one of the world’s worst-performing currencies, with the naira losing 37 per cent of its value against the dollar.

WHY THE ENTIRE WORLD STOOD STILL FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH II (1926-2022)

By Godknows Igali

In the truest apogee of human celebratory expression, Her Imperial Majesty, Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, and most prominent global matriarch was laid to rest on Monday, 19th September, 2022 at St. Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle in the outskirts of London. Reminiscent of a time when her forebears on that throne of the House of Windsor/Hanoverians, the 300 year old ruling family of her country boasted with unrestrained pride that "Britannia rules the waves", the entire world gathered to pay last tributes to her.

WHY TRUMP'S TRIAL DOESN'T MAKE AMERICA SPECIAL

By Azu Ishiekwene

Donald Trump consolidated his record in demagoguery when he became the first former US president ever to be criminally indicted and arraigned in a Manhattan court on April 4.

WHY US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOULD NOT HOLD IN NOVEMBER....Donald Trump

Barely four months to the United States of America Presidential election, incumbent President Donald Trump, has called for the outright postponement of the US Presidential poll, billed for November 2020.

WILL MACHINES REPLACE JOURNALISTS, TOO?

By Azu Ishiekwene

The advent of any significant changes in technology has often triggered concerns about the fate of journalism. Even at the infancy of social media, TIME covered one of its editions of February 5, 2009, with concern about the imminent death of journalism. To drive home the point, the graphic was illustrated with a copy of the New York Times wrapping a tilapia.

World AIDS Day: 2,374 TEST POSITIVE IN NIGER STATE

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

In Niger State, the HIV prevalence rate has dropped to 0.7 percent with the hope of it reducing to 0 percent while 2, 374 persons, including 6 infants tested positive this year.

World Blood Donours Day 2022: MEDICAL SCIENTIST CALLS ON NATIONAL BLOOD SERVICE COMMISSION TO START CORD BLOOD BANKING IN NIGERIA

By Jude Eze

World Blood Donor Day takes place on 14 June every year. The Day was set aside by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise global awareness on the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion.

World Food Day: BUSINESS FORUM TASKS FG ON FOOD SECURITY

•  Felicitates With Farmers, Food Workers

By Ruth Ameh (Agri-Business Reporter)

In celebration of the World Food Day, a business forum known as the Confluence Business Forum (CBF), has urged the Federal Government to intensify its effort in ensuring adequate food security for all Nigerians.

World Lupus Day: FOUNDATION TASKS NIGERIANS ON REGULAR LUPUS SCREENING

By Cecilia Ogezi

Gift Lupus Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has called on Nigerians to go for regular Lupus screening for healthy living in the country.

World Press Freedom Day: NGE TASKS INCOMING GOVT ON PRESS FREEDOM, SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS

• * Promises To Engage Authorities On Review Of NBC Act, Anti-media Laws

By Chinwendu Agoha (Media & Governance Reporter)

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has tasked the incoming government to initiate deliberate and sustained policies and programmes to promote freedom of expression, media freedom and safety of journalists.

WORLD'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER STOPS HARD COPY PRINT, PUBLISHES PURELY ONLINE

Wiener Zeitung, a newspaper based in Vienna, printed is last daily edition on Friday nearly 320 years after it began in 1703, driven off the newsstands because advert revenue has dwindled and cannot sustain the hard copy.

WORRIED DONALD TRUMP ATTACKS NIECE ON TWEETS OVER TELL-ALL DISCLOSURE ON NEW BOOK

Apparently peeved by the tell-all disclosure by her niece, Mary Trump, United States President, Donald Trump, has attacked Mary in a series of tweets on Friday, claiming that she is a liar but also that she is revealing information that violates a non-disclosure agreement.

WTO DG: BUHARI IN VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN COUNCIL OVER OKONJO-IWEALA'S BID

By Janet Bassey (Governance Reporter)

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, held a video conference with Mr Charles Michel, President of the European Council, during which the latter reiterated Europe’s support for Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

YOUTUBE MUSIC TO LAUNCH FREE BACKGROUND LISTENING IN CANADA

• Coming November 3rd

By Chinua Albert Okafor @TheRoboRai

One of YouTube Music's biggest limitations is about to be lifted - but only in Canada. Beginning November 3rd, YouTube will allow its Canadian customers to listen to music in the background while working and doing other tasks on their phones.

Yvonne Chaka Chaka: UNVEILING THE AFRICAN 'PRINCESS OF SONG'

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)

At the height of the monstrous and Portuguese imperial regime in South Africa in the 1980s, several talents, mostly musical stars emerged on the global music scene, from the oppressed black people of South Arica. Among them, is Yvonne Machaka (a.k.a Yvonne Chaka Chaka). The evils of the racist Apartheid government in Pretoria, in which millions of black South Africans were hounded, jailed, exiled, maimed, and killed, however, brought inspiration to Yvonne, to make her mark in music.