Brazil’s central bank said Tuesday it had ordered Visa and Mastercard to suspend a joint project with WhatsApp to roll out digital payments within the popular messaging service, over fears it would be anti-competitive. Brazil, which has the second-most WhatsApp users worldwide after India, was the pilot...
The United Nations says Musician, Oladapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj, is not a United Nations Youth Ambassador for Peace. Punch reported that the Director of Information, United Nations Information Centre for Nigeria, Joseph Kayanja, said this during an email chat on Wednesday. In 2012, D’Banj’s publicists ha...
Nigerian man stabs his wife to death and then commits suicide in their home in Lekki A Nigerian man simply identified as Femi, stabbed his wife to death, and thereafter committed suicide in their home in Victory Park estate in Lagos state on Sunday, June 21. According to residents of the estate,...
Rihanna and Jack Dorsey are continuing to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. After a $4.2 million donation back in April directed to domestic violence survivors, the two are teaming up one more time to give $15 million toward causes “addressing mental health issues, food insecurity,...
Cinemas, museums and galleries in England are to be allowed to re-open from 4 July, in the latest move by Boris Johnson to restore normal life after the three-month coronavirus lockdown. But, as the government moves to rescue the arts and culture, they are likely to be ordered to introduce one-way syste...
THE Federal Government said on Monday that home treatment of COVID-19 patients is not yet fully operational and anyone carrying out treatments at home without assigned clinical supervision is wrong. It said the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) is working on community treatment of...
