Guala Closures, a world leader in the production of closures for the spirits, wine, water, beer, non-alcoholic beverage, and edible oil markets, inaugurated yesterday its new greenfield manufacturing facility in West Africa, strategically located in the Lagos Free Zone. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Ugo Boni, Consul General of Italy in Lagos, Adesuwa Ladoja,…
Three congressmen from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are raising concerns over data privacy weeks after the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, putting millions of customers’ personal information up for sale. The Republican representatives — Brett Guthrie from Kentucky, Gus Bilirakis from Florida and Gary Palmer from Alaska — sent a…
Police operatives in Imo on Thursday arrested three suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in the state. The spokesman for the state police command, Henry Okoye, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Owerri, said the suspects were arrested at a hideout in Okigwe Local Government Area of the…
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has declared his support for President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, adding that he would have preferred the outright removal of the suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Wike made this known on Friday, April 18, during a media chat in…
Image by Cole Keister. Steve Stern. A Fool’s Kabbalah: A Novel. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2025. 287pp, $19.99. Omer Bartov, Israeli-born, renowned scholar of the Holocaust, has said lately that the genocide of Jews in the European 1940s is now fixed in history along with the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The way we look at…
