, Edited by Frank Meke
Nigeria’ s currency rebranding is on any round of controversy. From the scarcity of the new one , to battles in the courts to keep the old and new running together, , outright rejection of the old notes despite Supreme Court ruling to extend its validity, is on the brinks as banks and businesses, now reject the old notes, thus worsening the situation. As at time of this report on Tuesday, there’s is yet no official pronouncement on the way forward.
** A bill establishing the National Institute of Hospitality and Tourism has been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The nihotour act, now foreclosures uncertainty on legality of the federal government funded vocational tourism training Institution which was once the training department of Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation, formerly, Nigeria Tourism Board ( NTB).
** Argentine passport which enables visa free entry into 171 countries, including European Union, now booms for Russian women who throng the South American nation to give birth, with the Argentine citizenship and passport to the bargain. About ten thousand Russian women have delivered babies in Argentina since the war broke out between Ukraine and Russia, with Russian women, fearing to escape Moscow as sanctions against their country bites harder.
** Burt Bacharach, World famous Composer and musician died aged 94. Bacharach wrote songs for Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield and others, but many people do not know he composed the great hits sang by these musicians.
** while the church of England approved its priests to bless same sex wedding after years of dispute, the Sri Lankan government says it’s also ready to decriminalise same sex relationships which before now attract punitive ten years prison term under its colonial British law.
** In Shanghai, China, gynaecologists are upbeat to share good news of new babies crying and people laughing, dancing to new lives as covid 19 pandemic pans out in China. Reports says Chinese health officials are confid that covid pandemic wave and its boom of infections are over..