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NLNG N18.4b award: When the Senate kills the environment
Sopuruchi Onwuka The recent decision to impose N18.4 billion penal measure against the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited over pipeline right of way dispute stokes existing concerns among petroleum industry investors about the threat of political interference in the…
Israel Adesanya suffers third loss for UFC title
Years ago, when mixed martial arts was still illegal and Dana White was traveling the country to sell his vision of a different fighting organization, he told anyone who would listen the same thing: The sport is so great, White…
Energy transition is creating huge opportunities in Nigeria, Seplat CEO
Energy transition creates huge opportunities in Nigeria as it supports economic and social development, job creation, improved health and education, the Chief Executive Officer, Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Roger Brown has said. Mr. Brown said this during a panel session…
How the big thieves boozed and dozed off
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports A herd of elephants in India searched out and devoured a few barrels at local wine fermenting cluster, they then went light and into deep slumber that triggered alarms to the local preservation office. The…
Russia execute military deserter with sledgehammer
Government of Russia weekend killed one of its fighters in the war with Ukraine by smashing his head with a sledge hammer, marking one of the cruelest executions in modern history. Evgeniy Nuzhin who is one of the prisoners released…
America’s space plane completes 908-day orbital mission
The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane weekend completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was launched. This was the sixth mission in the hush-hush X-37B…
African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate…
Africa will lose 64% of GDP to climate change by 2100
If African countries don’t change their current climate policies to align with the Paris Agreement, and continue suffering climate funding shortfalls from the west, they could lose 64% of their GDP due to climate change devastation according to a report…
Facebook, Twitter boot staff to maintain balance
Meta; the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp fired 11, 000 workers in a single day after reporting its biggest one-day loss on Wall Street in early February when the company’s worth plummeted by over 26% or about $230…
Canada, Nigeria target oil and gas methane emissions with new laws
Oil and gas producers Canada and Nigeria have become the latest countries to tackle the potent greenhouse gas methane with laws to rein in emissions in the fossil fuel energy sector. The announcements came as the United States on Friday…
