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Indian women protest to support child marriage
Mostly women protesters are battling the police after relatives suitors involved in marrying off kids were arrested. Hundreds of women are participating in the protest in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam after their male relatives were arrested as part…
Earthquakes: The world unites in aid to Turkey, Syria
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Nearly 3500 people have been confirmed dead and tens of thousands of others reported with severe injuries in the neighbouring countries of Turkey and Syria after series of 6.0, 7.5 and 7.8 magnitude earthquakes came…
Saudi Aramco leads world’s natural resource giants into 2023
Sopuruchi Onwuka With market capitalization of some $1.8 trillion, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, Aramco, stands as the world’s biggest natural resource company in the world. The company which sits on estimated reserves base of 270 billion barrels…
Germany hits 50,000 megawatts of wind power
Germany has declared that it has generated over 50,000 megawatts of electricity from wind, as the European continent tries to diversify its energy sources in the face of gas wean from Russia. Reports by agency sources quoted that data from…
World crosses into 2023 with 8.008 billion people
Nigeria now world’s 6th most populous country Sopuruchi Onwuka The world population is projected to be 7.9 billion people on New Year’s Day 2023, with 73.7 million people added since New Year’s Day 2022, marking a 0.9% increase in the…
Nigeria makes the list of World’s most dangerous countries in 2022
Sopuruchi Onwuka With global peace index (GPI) score of 2.72, Nigeria is the of 17th most dangerous country of world’s nearly 200 nations, explaining the difficulty of the country in attracting floating global investible funds despite her abundant man and…
Europe to targets 63% LNG import capacity by 2024
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) will expand by 34 percent, or 6.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), by 2024 compared with 2021, according to the International Group of…
WMO says drought hit 3.6 m people, world getting drier
More than 3.6 million people do not have access to an adequate water supply, and large areas of the world are only getting dryer, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO State of Global Water Resources…
Two of 3 Nigeria stowaways face deportation from Spain
Two of the three stowaways who boarded the rudder of a Maltese ocean going tanker to Spain would now be returned home after taking timely opportunity to seek asylum in the Mediterranean country. The third stowaway is said to be…
Some 500 migrant workers died on Qatar World Cup projects
While the world’s soccer fans rave at the spectacles that thrill them at the newly developed facilities that provide platform for the global football competition in the desert city of Qatar, some 500 families remain in deep pains mourning the…
