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Tech outage cost large corporations $5.4 bn
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Large global companies whose operating systems hibernated across day after faulty security update may have lost staggering $5.4 billion in operating cost and revenues as banks suffered downtimes, airlines cancelled flights and hospitals all around…
NCAA approves Elint Systems to manage drone traffic in Nigeria
Sopuruchi Onwuka Federal government has cleared an indigenous aviation technology company, Elint Systems Limited, to assume the role of drone traffic management in the country; making it the first time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) reined into a controlled traffic management…
WIEN Woman Podcast features EKEDC’s Adegbenro in Episode II
The experience sharing programme of the Women In Energy Network (WIEN) has progressed to the second episode with the Chief Compliance and Audit Officer at Eko Disco, Sheri Adegbenro, on the spotlight. Sheri’s inspiring journey and insights already online at…
NCDMB, UBEC explore upgrade for basic education, capacity development
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) have agreed to collaborate on upgrading basic education in the country. The two agencies also agreed on the need to build capacities of young Nigerians…
NCDMB strikes Local Content collaboration with NASS
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the National Assembly have initiated process for closer delivery of the key goals of the economic stimulation agency. The NCDMB on Sunday began a 3-day retreat with the Senate…
Multiple taxation, forex pushing air tickets up –Okonkwo
For Nigerians to enjoy lower air travel tickets, the federal government must step in to save the aviation sector by moderating the over 20 taxes paid on every ticket purchased by travellers as well as reign in the astronomical rise…
Delta still grounded as most airlines creep out of tech quandary
Sopuruchi Onwuka One of America’s biggest airlines with a crucial route connecting Nigeria, Dalta Airlines, is exceptionally affected by the Friday’s tech glitch that plunged global businesses into lingering stalemate. Although most African airlines and airports were not affected by…
Mexicans arrested at $100m crystal meth lab in S.Africa
Three Mexican suspects were arrested with two South Africans when elite police units raided a multimillion-dollar crystal meth lab hidden in a remote farm north of Johannesburg, police said Tuesday. The owner of the farm near Groblersdal, about 125 miles…
Sharks off Brazil coast are “high on cocaine” __Scientists
Marine biologists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks taken from the shores near Rio de Janeiro and found they tested for high levels of cocaine in their muscles and livers. The concentrations were as much as 100 times higher than previously…
Shot at Trump: US Secret Service chief accepts failure, resigns
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports After accepting responsibility for series of intelligence lapses at the campaign ground where former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear by an assassin hiding in plain sight, the Director of the United States’…
