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05/09/2025

Tech News : A resurfaced 1995 clip shows Bill Gates facing laughter on The Late Show with David Letterman for his internet predictions. Gates described features l

31/08/2025

Ruth Elton, born 7 September 1933, was a British-born Nigerian missionary whose lifelong dedication to faith, healing, and revival left an indelible mark on communities across western and central Nigeria.

British-born Nigerian missionary, Ruth Elton, reputed to be the oldest missionary has passed on at the age of 91. Ruth Elton, born 7 September 1933, was a British-born Nigerian missionary whose lifelong dedication to faith, healing, and revival left an indelible mark on communities across western an...

20/08/2025

https://guardian.ng/news/ncaa-phone-switch-off-directive-embarrasses-nigeria-globally-nefgad/
civil society organisation, the Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), on Wednesday described the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority’s (NCAA) recent directive to ban the use of mobile phones in “aeroplane mode” during flights as a regressive policy that exposes the country to global ridicule. Newspaper subscription bundles

According to the organisation’s Country Head of Office, Omoniyi Akingunola, in a statement made available to journalists, the directive indicated serious international embarrassment to Nigeria.

The Director-General of NCAA, Capt. Chris Najomo, at a stakeholders’ meeting themed “National Civil Aviation Security Committee Meeting” in Abuja on Tuesday, had declared that all passengers must now completely switch off their electronic devices during flights, thereby ending the long-standing “flight mode” practice.

A civil society organisation, the Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), on Wednesday

17/08/2025

...a huge monetary award for sporting victory is the triumph of spectacle over substance. It is cheaper—and I mean that in every sense of the word—to reward a triumph that was engineered through other functional systems than to build a local one that supports a sporting ecosystem from the ground up. That is because you cannot develop sports in isolation; it must be achieved in consonance with a better infrastructure of education and health, urban facilities, public amenities, and an overall conducive atmosphere. You cannot be a country where public schools have gone comatose and your professors serially lament having to farm to survive and still prioritise sports investment. Lagos, the city purportedly built up by the present occupant of A*o Rock, submerges under the floodwaters that rage into homes from breached canals and long-decrepit underground sewage systems. You cannot be a society that wades through all that mess and still somehow...

When the Super Falcons, the Nigerian women’s national football team, won their tenth WAFCON title in Morocco recently, the President splashed them with a

14/08/2025

Celebrating 25 years of excellence, The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence honours leaders and organizations transforming India's business landscape. This year's notable winners include Ashwini Vaishnaw, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vishakha Mulye, Venu Srinivasan, Fareed Zakaria, Peyush Bansal...

25/06/2025

Steve Jobs once spent two whole weeks deciding which washer-dryer to buy for his home. While this might sound absurdly excessive to most people, for Jobs it was a natural extension of how he approached every decision in life. According to those close to him, he held nightly discussions with his wife...

23/05/2025

The proposal would see passengers remain seated even after the seat belt sign has been switched off and people will only be allowed to stand when it is their row's turn to disembark.

22/05/2025

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar that President Donald Trump will use once the Pentagon upgrades it to include “proper security measures and functional-mission requirements,” according to a Defense Department spokesperson.

22/05/2025

IBM shook the tech world by laying off thousands to make way for AI automation. But what happened next caught everyone off guard. The company’s workforce took an unexpected turn that is changing the future of work.

18/05/2025

You might have seen certain power or audio cables with a black cylinder near the end of the cord. What are these little things and what do they do?

18/05/2025

A Lufthansa flight went 10 minutes without a pilot after the first officer fell ill while alone in the cockpit, according to investigators