The rising cost of living and delayed financial support have driven University of Abuja students into entrepreneurship, with many now combining lectures with small businesses to stay afloat. Students who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday said food, transportation, and accommodation expenses had tripled in the last year. They noted that…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 27, 2026/APO Group/ — Clotaire Kondja, Gabon’s Minister of Petroleum and Gas, has been confirmed as a speaker at African Energy Week (AEW) 2026, bringing one of Central Africa’s foremost architects of upstream reform to the continent’s premier energy investment event. Since taking office in January 2026, Minister Kondja has…
Nvidia is arguing limiting access to open-source artificial models could concentrate power in the hands of a few, large artificial intelligence (AI) companies. Nvidia on Monday launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, which includes many leading tech companies such as Palantir, IBM, Crowdstrike and SpaceX. The chipmaker maintains a predominant control of the AI hardware…
Glut of wind farm power adds nearly £1bn to household energy bills Curtailment figures mean that consumers are getting handed significant sums JONATHAN LEAKE A glut of power from Britain’s wind farms has added nearly £1bn to energy bills, new figures show. Wind operators were forced to curtail output from their machinery by 28pc in the first…
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), in partnership with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), the World Bank and Resolve to Save Lives Nigeria, has launched a Health Security Scorecard aimed at improving states’ preparedness for disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. The scorecard was unveiled on Wednesday at a validation workshop…
Some military personnel deployed to Bawku in the Upper East Region were involved in a road accident at Nkenkesu in the Ashanti Region on Sunday, July 26, after the vehicle transporting them collided with a State Transport Corporation (STC) bus. According to preliminary information, the crash involved a military truck carrying the personnel and an…
