Month: July 2022
reopening Black Sea
The Russian Black Sea fleet is said to be stopping anything getting in or out and there is mounting evidence that Russian forces have stolen Ukrainian grain too. Western governments have accused the Kremlin of weaponising hunger. Millions of tonnes of wheat, barley, oil and other agricultural products are stuck in warehouses, unable to be
United States to cap Russian Oil
With thousands of sanctions already imposed on Russia to flatten its economy, the U.S. and its allies are working on new measures to starve the Russian war machine while also stopping the price of oil and gasoline from soaring to levels that could crush the global economy. The Kremlin’s main pillar of financial revenue –
Ukrainians path to Russian citizenship
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday of this week expanded fast-track route to Russian citizenship and made it available for all Ukrainians. Putin’s decree has made the mechanism available to all Ukrainians. Between 2019, when the procedure was first introduced for the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk, and this year, more than 720,000 residents of
Building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria
Barely two weeks a church building under construction collapsed opposite Number 17, Cardoso Street, off Martins Street in Mushin, A building at Onipanu area of Lagos has reportedly collapsed. The incident occured at about 1.07am at Oke Arin street, off Shyllon Ilupeju but details could not be ascertained. The buildings collapsing has become the order
China provocation by the United States of America
The United States regularly carries out what it calls Freedom of Navigation Operations in the South China Sea challenging what it says are restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China and other claimants. A U.S. destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on Wednesday, drawing an angry reaction from Beijing,
GameStop’s NFT marketplace
Mainstream video game companies have avoided or actively fled from NFTs, a market that has crashed in recent months to the point where launching a dedicated NFT marketplace days after laying off a number of employees seems ill-advised. GameStop’s NFT marketplace is as an OpenSea knockoff with generally worse artwork. While NFTs have rarely been
Net Zero Technologies
The transition from using exhaustible fossil fuels to leveraging sustainable energy sources partially lies in the integration of technology solutions within companies and enterprises. Net zero requires the deployment of all available clean energy technologies, and the majority of them already exist. Businesses worldwide are thinking about how they could reinvent their processes to reduce
Gmail bug
Google has confirmed a bizarre new bug affecting all Gmail users, where the service issues a sender warning for every email received. The bug first struck on Thursday, with Gmail attaching a security notice reserved for suspect emails to everything that arrives in a recipient’s inbox. Normally, Gmail only attaches this message to emails where
Chip shortage
The global chip shortage has been wreaking havoc on supply chains across industries from automobile manufacturing to waste management. The problem is deep into its second year, with many experts predicting it could last well into 2023 or beyond. Many factors have contributed to the problem, and many experts have chimed in with their thoughts
Covid-19 burdens and inequalities
All countries have health disparities, or unfair and avoidable differences in health status between groups. These differences come “from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,” factors which extend beyond an individual’s control. The United States is no exception. The beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic provided a clear example