Новости за 08.07.2024

United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer made his first visit to Northern Ireland on Monday, with hopes high on both sides of the political divide that relations will improve after years of Brexit turmoil. Starmer, whose centre-left Labour party won last week’s UK general election, briefly met the leaders of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive at

Europe’s stock markets slid in opening deals on Monday as investors fretted over French political uncertainty following snap elections in which a hung parliament appeared the likeliest outcome. In the eurozone, the Paris CAC 40 benchmark stocks index sank 0.4 per cent and Frankfurt’s DAX shed 0.1 per cent, while London’s FTSE 100 index was

The Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited has taken another step towards enhancing its services by upgrading its technology to cutting-edge standards. This development comes as the company signs a partnership agreement with Dimension Data, a leading IT solutions provider. According to a press release shared with our correspondent on Monday, the Managing Director of NIGCOMSAT Limited

Workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung began a three-day general strike over pay and benefits on Monday, the head of a union representing tens of thousands of employees told AFP, warning the action could impact memory chip production. Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest memory chip maker and accounts for a significant chunk of

The Ebonyi State chapter of the Labour Party has adopted its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, as the party’s national leader. The party stakeholders also adopted Fidelis Nwankwo as the leader of the party in the state. The endorsement was part of the six-point communique issued at the end of

The United States President Joe Biden faces a critical week Monday that will test his standing at home and abroad, as moves to force him to quit his fight for a second White House term gather pace. The 81-year-old has so far defied calls to step aside after a disastrous debate against election rival Donald

The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the country and the world. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie appeared in court in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa along with

Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU’s climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves. Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

At least 11 people have lost their lives while 19 more are missing after heavy rains caused a landslide near an illegal gold mine on Indonesia’s central island of Sulawesi, an official said Monday. Unlicensed mines are common across the mineral-rich Southeast Asian archipelago, where abandoned sites attract locals who hunt for leftover gold ore

Paris will remind people of the value of hosting the Olympics, says a top official of the Tokyo 2020 Games, which were delayed by a year because of Covid and tainted by corruption. Seiko Hashimoto, who was president of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee, told AFP that the Japanese public was bitterly split over hosting

The graduation ceremony of the Class of 2024 at Lead-Forte Gate College, a co-educational COBIS and ISA-accredited international full-boarding secondary and Sixth-Form College, took place on Saturday, 29th June 2024, at the school’s auditorium at Coscharis Bus Stop, Awoyaya, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. It was an elaborate ceremony attended by personalities from all walks of life, led

NewGold 2.0 will be the trending cryptocurrency in the coming weeks and could rank among the top 50 cryptos globally. With only 1000 tokens as total supply, this limited resources coupled with massive users and demand will make it to become scarce, valuable, and very expensive, comparable to Gold or Diamond. Most cryptocurrency founders minted

The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, Aboki Danjuma, has condemned the attack and murder of three vigilante personnel at Afor Umuaka of Umuaka community in Njaba Local Government Area of the state by gunmen on Sunday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Henry Okoye, in a statement on Monday, said, “In the wake

As the Paris 2024 Olympic Games approaches, PUNCH Sports Extra’s ABIODUN ADEWALE reviews the athletes who have won the 27 medals the country boasts of at the Games Nojim Maiyegun (Tokyo 1964) Born February 17, 1941, in Lagos, Maiyegun became Nigeria’s first-ever Olympic medallist after winning bronze in the men’s light middleweight (71kg) category at

A 27-year-old employee of KAM Steel Integrated Company, Yahaya Ibrahim, was killed by an engine roller after slipping on the machine at the company’s factory along the Sagamu-Ogijo Expressway in Ogun State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday at 4:50 am while the deceased was working at the company’s plant. The Ogun

As the Muslim community marks the commencement of the Islamic New Year 1446 AH, governors have called on the faithful to pray for unity and peace in the country. Borno and Bauch states, on Sunday, declared today a work-free day, to celebrate the Islamic New Year, joining Oyo, Osun, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano, and Kwara, among

The Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu, Jim Obazee, has called on lawmakers to address the issues of corruption, inefficiencies, and waste in government operations. Obazee made this call during his speech at an award ceremony hosted by ThisNigeria, where he and four other distinguished Nigerians were honoured. He emphasised the crucial role of

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a 46-year-old ritualist while attempting to slaughter a 10-year-old boy hawking pepper in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The suspect identified as Isiaka Adeniyi was arrested on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024, at the Oke-Foma area in Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state. The incident which was confirmed

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will, on Wednesday, swear in 12 additional judges for the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja The Director of Press and Information of the Supreme Court, Dr. Festus Akande, said in a statement on Sunday that the swearing-in of the new judicial officers will take

Hundreds of members of the Social Democratic Party in Ondo State have dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress. The mass defection, which happened on Saturday, came four months to the November 16 governorship election in the state. The defectors included some state executive members of the SDP and members from the 18

President Bola Tinubu was, on Sunday, re-elected for another one-year term as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government. Tinubu immediately appointed the President of Senegal, Bassirou Faye and the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, to woo Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic to return to the regional bloc. Tinubu, whose

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,  Dr Olayemi Cardoso, has stated that it will soon be able to slow down increases in the benchmark interest rate. Cardoso said that on Saturday in Lagos at the launch of a book titled ‘The Power of One Man: How the Soludo-Engineered Consolidation Transformed Nigerian Banks to

Troops of the Nigerian Army deployed for counter-terrorism operations in Yobe State have thwarted an attack by Boko Haram terrorists on high-tension electric towers in the state. Attacks on electricity infrastructure have increased recently, causing a blackout in the affected areas. Three electricity towers, T193, T194 and T195, were destroyed on December 28, 2023, by

The faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara will today screen another commissioner-nominee for the governor’s cabinet. The factional Assembly, led by Victor Oko-Jumbo as Speaker, issued a public announcement on Sunday inviting “Emmanuel Frank-Fubara for screening and confirmation and a member of the Rivers State Executive Council.” The

NIGERIA is sinking deeper into another debt trap. This is after the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio recently crossed the 50 per cent threshold for the first time since 1991. The Bola Tinubu administration inherited a debt-to-GDP ratio of 38 per cent. But fresh borrowings, securitisation of the Ways and Means advances, a failure to tackle fiscal