Nigeria’s candidate for General Director of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attends the General Council meeting during the WTO Director General election process, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Geneva, Switzerland July 15,…
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Okonjo Iweala emerges first African and female Director General of the World Trade Organization
Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has emerged the new Director General of the World Trade Organisation. She emerged victorious in the contest with 104 votes while her South Korean rival Ms Yoo Myung-hee had 53 votes. Okonjo-Iweala’s…
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth surpassed $100 billion for the first time on Thursday after the company released Reels, a new Instagram feature seen as a competitor to Chinese app TikTok. Zuckerberg, 36, joins fellow tech…
Unveiling The Agbero: The Bespoke Mobile Ticketing Solution For Public Transport
Ruiti Agbero Limited, the Fare Payments as a service provider has introduced the Agbero App. It is available for download from the Google Playstore. The Agbero App is a city wide fare payments Service. In a low income economy…
Scientists in Australia have claimed to have found an already existing drug that kills COVID-19 in the laboratory within 48 hours. The drug, Ivermectin, is used to treat head lice and is available all over the world. Researchers at…
The Akwa Ibom State Government has acquired two new aircraft for Ibom Airlines to make a total of five aircraft owned by the state. Chairman of Ibom Air, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (rtd), said during a press conference with…
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that the passengers and crew members in the country’s Boeing 737 that crashed early this morning have all died. The president confirmed this in a statement on his official Facebook page. He said:…
Several major airlines said on Wednesday that they are re-routing flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran after the Federal Aviation Administration banned US carriers from the area following an Iranian missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq.…
It’s the end of an internet era as Sergei Brin and Larry Page are stepping down as head of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and ceding management control to Sundar Pichai who will take over as CEO. Page and Sergey Brin,…
By David Warmflash Scientifically, it’s called ectogenesis, a term coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1924. A hugely influential science popularizer, Haldane did for his generation what Carl Sagan did later in the century. He got people thinking and talking about the implications…