Brazil President, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, has joked that Neymar is “the first player in the world to be called up to the national side and be working remotely.” The 80-year-old was speaking during a ceremony at a hospital in the southeast city of Belo Horizonte. Neymar only returned to training with the squad…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved an additional six-month tenure for the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, extending his stay in office beyond the end of his current term. The extension was announced in a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, who explained…
[mc4wp_form id=33047] President Bola Tinubu has approved a six-month tenure extension for the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi. The extension, which takes effect after the expiration of his current tenure on August 1, 2026, will run until February 2027. Presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement on Friday, said the extension…
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 19, 2026/APO Group/ — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned by the accelerating spread of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the growing risks it poses to displaced communities across the region. As of 17 June, 896 confirmed cases and 232 deaths…
What a grandiose mouthful of verbiage. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (SBI-UNFCCC) just wrapped up its latest session in Bonn, Germany. Abbreviated SB64, it was the 64th meeting of this austere group of “multi-stakeholder coalitions” — politicians, government bureaucrats, business rent-seekers and “civil society” activists —…
By Frank Ulom The Cross River State Government has announced a statewide training programme for coffee farmers and stakeholders as part of efforts to strengthen the state’s coffee value chain and promote sustainable agricultural development. The training, organised through the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation Development, is scheduled to take place across the state’s three…
