China has announced that members of the general public will not be allowed to buy tickets to the Beijing Winter Olympics slated for February next month. The organizers further announced that tickets will be restricted with only “selected” spectators permitted at the event because of the coronavirus pandemic. This announcement was made on the organizing […]

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plans to launch a second satellite this year to boost the country’s satellite communication system. This was disclosed by Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy at a one-day working visit and interaction with the staff of the Nigerian Communications Satellite in Abuja.       […]

According to the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Nigeria will soon start exporting rice in order to achieve the country’s twin goals of food security and economic diversification.  This was disclosed by the Mr Ado Hassan, Secretary of the RIFAN chapter in Kano State during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]

Ash cloaking a runway has hampered relief efforts to Tonga, as the scale of the damage from a volcanic eruption and a tsunami becomes clear. New Zealand is trying to send clean drinking water and other supplies but planes cannot land at the main airport. Aid agencies say some of Tonga’s small outlying islands have […]

The Federal Government has filed fresh terrorism charges against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. In the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the government increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Kanu. Kanu faced seven treasonable felony charges, but will […]