he Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has embarked on a large-scale retrenchment exercise, cutting about 800 jobs in a significant layoff in the power sector in recent years. The exercise, which began on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, marks a major phase in the company’s ongoing internal restructuring. AEDC, which supplies electricity to the Federal Capital…
Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC, following criticism over how a speech the US president made was edited and used in a Panorama documentary. His legal team has given the BBC a deadline of 14 November to make a “full and fair retraction” of the documentary – or face being sued for…
Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr has apologised to supporters for his reaction to being substituted in Sunday’s fiery El Clasico win against Barcelona. Vinicius was taken off in the 72nd minute and expressed his frustration by going straight down the tunnel. The Brazilian later returned to the bench and, after his side’s 2-1 win, tried…
The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has officially declared an end to the era of illegal land trading in the state. The Governor made this known while graduating a set of 10, 000 Cohort 3 of Skill Up in Owerri, Imo State on Saturday. According to him, the development was to place Imo State…
Fubara appealed to the people of RuversState, particularly the Ogoni people, to see the Federal Government’s decision as a significant step towards addressing age-long demands of the communities, Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed appreciation to President Bola Tinubu for his decision to bestow a Posthumous Pardon on the Ogoni 9 and the prestigious…
Venezuela’s opposition leader and pro-democracy activist María Coria Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Machado, 58, was hailed by the Nobel Committee as “one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times” and praised for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela”….
Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has arrived in India for a week of talks – a visit which had been previously unimaginable. It is the Taliban’s highest-level visit to the country since seizing power in 2021, and Muttaqi is due to discuss diplomatic, trade and economic ties with Indian officials during an eight-day…
Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday painkiller, paracetamol. The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of chemical biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, was Escherichia coli, better known as…
The court ordered that the report of the team’s findings should be signed by both its chairman and secretary and should be filed in the court’s registry within eight days from today (September 26, 2025). The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to set up a team…
