Skip to content
More COVID-19 variants underway as experts downgrade IHU
Sopuruchi Onwuka The world must brace for emergence of more variants of the dreaded SARS-COV-2, the pathogen that causes novel coronavirus disease also known as COVID-19. In separate briefings on the new variants of the virus including the widespread Omicron…
2021: Crude oil ruled commodity markets
Sopuruchi Onwuka Despite the vigorous push by the advanced industrial nations and environmental activists in 2021 to accelerate transition of demand from fossil fuels to greener renewable energy, petroleum commodities maintained strong market resilience in both demand and price. In…
OPEC: Barkindo to bow out as Sec Gen in August
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s oil diplomacy maestro, Dr Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, who has functioned as the Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) since 2016, will serve out his tenure this July and yield the position to newly…
Wife of Mexican cartel boss ‘El Mencho’ nabbed
Mexican security forces have arrested the wife of “El Mencho”, Mexico’s most wanted man and the leader of the feared Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Rosalinda González is suspected of running the CJNG’s finances. Mexico’s defence ministry said she was…
Interpol tests resilience of American drug cartels
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Recent successes in bursting powerful and dreadful drug trafficking rings in South America appears to signal a new verve in the concerted efforts of northern American and European countries to block the notorious Mexican narcotic…
From vaccines to drugs: Firms in new race for COVID-19 treatment
Pfizer, Roche, Atea, Merck, AstraZeneca, Regeneron, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline, Vir Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Pharmaceutical companies and health scientist are yet decelerate in the prevailing race for fame, market share and cash rewards from the global campaign against…
Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics
Three scientists-Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi- have jointly won the coveted Nobel Prize in Physics, holding up their respective works on prediction of changes in global temperature and discovery of systemic planetary disorder. Whereas Syukuro Manabe and Klaus…
A missing man joins search party to find himself
A 50 year old Turkish man, Beyhan Mutlu, who was reported missing after not returning home following a night out, joined a search party organized to find him He joined the search party and combed the woods for several hours,…
Ford announces $11.4bn investment, 11, 000 jobs in electric vehicle plants
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports American biggest automobile brand, Ford, has unveiled plans to sink princely $11.4 billion or N5.7 trillion in production of a range of electric vehicle brands that would dominate its products in the next nine years….
Afghan women support Taliban as America mourns 9/11 terror victims
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Educated women in Afghanistan on Saturday marched in support of radical Islamic regime in the country, pledging commitment to the Taliban’s hard-line policies on gender segregation. The march for Taliban support came as thousands of…
