The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed fintech companies to stop onboarding new customers until further notice. This directive is coming few months after the CBN mandated all financial institutions to collect ID cards before creating financial accounts, which Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has said his administration is investing in technology that is tailored towards ensuring transparency and accountability in government and accelerating public-sector performance and service delivery to the Nigerian people. He made the remark during a meeting with Read more…
A former Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Dr Joe Abah, has narrated how a ground engineer saved travellers on an Ibom Airlines flight from a “potential disaster”. Narrating the experience on his X handle on Thursday, Abah said he Read more…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has praised the US Senate’s decision to approve a $61 billion funding package, but warned that it won’t be enough to make a difference on the battlefield. After months of wrangling, Republicans caved in to Read more…
Pyongyang has carried out a drill designed to test the nuclear forces’ coordination system in a counterattack scenario, the state Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally observed several super-large multiple rocket launchers Read more…
Russian forces have delivered 34 long-range strikes on Ukrainian targets since last Saturday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Friday, during a weekly summary. The attacks have been carried out “in response to attempts by the Kiev regime to cause Read more…
Israel carried out a series of strikes on Iran in the early hours of Friday, multiple news outlets have reported. The news comes less than a week after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel. Iranian Read more…
The job of commanding a nuclear submarine should go to smart and well-qualified officers. Or at least that’s the case in Western navies. Not so in the Chinese navy. Except for engineers, Chinese submarine officers tend to come from military Read more…
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has called on Iran and Israel to exercise restraint and avoid a further escalation of hostilities in the region. The appeal was made in a statement on Sunday, following Tehran’s drone and missile strikes on Israel over the Read more…
Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early Sunday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East closer to a regionwide war. In Washington, President Joe Read more…
Moscow has been developing a successor to its current mobile ICBM system FILE PHOTO: Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system. © Sputnik / Russian Defence Ministry / Vadim Savitskii The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Read more…
Russia has launched its Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East for the first time, the country’s space agency Roscosmos announced on Thursday. The previous three Angara-A5 launches took place at Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The launch Read more…