Labour upgraded 98 percent of schools and delivered more than 2200 new classrooms. Cutting these projects makes no sense and will take educational outcomes backwards,” Labour’s education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said.
Whether it’s cars, high-end electronics, or groceries, nowadays, we want things cheap, and we want them now. It is hard to overstate the impact that the rise of e-commerce has had on consumers’ buying habits, and the fashion industry is no exception. The rise of so-called “fast fashion” brands feels like the natural progression of the digitalization of commerce. Yet, in the drive to reinvent the fashion industry and cut costs, Chinese e-commerce sites like SHEIN and Temu are engaging in unacceptable practices and... Читать дальше...
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Last week I got an email from an old friend. She wants to meet for coffee. How nice, you might think. But my first thought when her name appeared in my inbox was: 'Oh no, I thought I'd got rid of you!'
Mike Hurley said Thursday that the $20.1 “community contribution agreement” is not a gag order, and that he and city councillors remain free to criticize the company.
An American flag was placed on an iconic overlook in a North Carolina state park that was decimated after the powerful remnants of Hurricane Helene wrecked havoc on the town in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
A viral Reddit thread has revealed the one luxury item that older people have decided is too expensive to splurge on these days.
The switch makes Yoshinobu Yamamoto available for a potential Game 5 on an extra day of rest as he’s had for every outing this season, with Andrew Friedman saying the moves are about creating flexibility.
Influenced by the sex-obsessed pop culture of the 1990s, I willingly suggested having sex with a 16-year-old boy I'd met at school. It's something I now find deeply disturbing.
The Gang Gets a Crossover Episode.
A claim made by the Menendez brothers that their father had molested them will be considered as part of the review
The unwritten rule is that the interceptor missile always costs more than the missile being intercepted. Defense is more expensive than offense.
'I thought Albertans would have appreciated a more open approach to liquor,' says Dale Nally, the minister on cutting red tape
Global leaders in residence and citizenship planning, Henley & Partners, is set to hold an investment migration roadshow in Lagos. According to a statement obtained by our correspondent on Friday, the event aims to educate Nigerians and West Africans on global mobility and investment migration opportunities. According to the statement, Senior Consultant, Chidinma Okebalama and
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The social programme intervention funds left unused in the coffers of nine Deposit Money Banks reduced to N399.34bn despite the discontinuance of the scheme by the Central Bank of Nigeria a year ago, The PUNCH reports. The amount was N531.4bn as of December 31, 2023. This means a total sum of N132.05bn was withdrawn from
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The usage of artificial intelligence among knowledge workers surged to 66 per cent in 2024 from 38 per cent recorded in 2023, the second annual HP Work Relationship Index has revealed. The report obtained by The PUNCH stated that workers who used AI were 11 points happier with their relationship with work than their colleagues
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The African Development Bank plans to produce an additional 120 million tonnes of food by 2025. This announcement was made by the Director General of the AfDB Nigeria Country Department, Abdul Kamara, during a side event at the 2024 West and Central Africa Regional Wheat Summit in Abuja on Thursday. He emphasised the urgent need
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The Nigeria Customer Service Index has launched a survey platform for Nigerians to share their feedback on the quality of services and customer experiences from various service providers nationwide. NCSI disclosed in a release on Thursday that the survey platform was an initiative of the West Africa Association of Customer Service Professionals, Africa’s leading customer
Читать дальше...The MVP races, interesting a few weeks back, eventually were clinched by the game’s two best players.
The action off the field often threatened to eclipse the exhibition of creative football on it, with frequent verbal exchanges between the sets of supporters at times boiling over into more serious incidents.
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved President Bola Tinubu’s request for a refund of about N24bn to the Kebbi and Nasarawa state governments, for the takeover of two airports built by the two states. Recall that on May 16, 2024, the President, in a letter addressed to the House Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, urged the
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service has said that the current Withholding Tax regime will remain effective until December 31, 2024. This is according to a public notice informing taxpayers, tax practitioners, and the general public about the implementation of the Deduction of Tax at Source Withholding Regulations, 2024. The new regulations, published in the Federal
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