The Federal Ministry of Transportation has disclosed that it is considering the use of bicycles as an alternative means of commuting as it promotes a cleaner environment and a healthy lifestyle.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/07/28/fg-urges-nigerians-to-consider-bicycles-for-transportation/

An inmate on life imprisonment at the Awka Custodial Centre, Anambra State, Jude Onwuzulike, has bagged a postgraduate degree from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/07/15/life-term-inmate-bags-noun-postgraduate-degree-from-prison/

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Twitter has threatened to sue Meta just one day after it launched a new rival app.

Threads saw 30 million users sign up within 24 hours of going live.

But now Twitter boss Elon Musk has sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, via his lawyer Alex Spiro, warning of potential legal action.
https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/07/07/twitter-threatens-to-sue-meta-over-threads-app/

Aspartame, one of the world’s most widely used artificial sweeteners, is expected to be classified as a possible carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health Organisation’s cancer research arm, according to Reuters, citing exclusive sources.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/30/aspartame-sweetener-in-coke-to-be-declared-possible-cancer-risk-by-who-say-reports/

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Thursday, explained that he could have chosen to maintain the hitherto multiple foreign exchange systems and benefit from it, but instead opted to unify the official and parallel market rates to save the country from financial hemorrhage.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/30/the-reason-i-harmonised-exchange-rates-tinubu/

Cristiano Ronaldo has received a Guinness World Record after reaching 200 international caps for Portugal.

The legendary forward is making his 200th appearance for A Selecao das Quinas in their Euro 2024 qualifier against Iceland. The 38-year-old has broken another record and is the most-capped player in international football.
https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/22/cristiano-ronaldo-was-given-a-guinness-world-record-award-he-became-the-first-male-player-to-reach-200-international-appearances/

Google has listed 25 African startups as beneficiaries of its annual Black Founders Fund. Now in its third year, the $4 million fund seeks to help tackle systemic racial inequality in venture capital (VC) funding by providing equity-free grants and mentoring to early-stage, Black-led, and high-growth businesses across Africa and Europe.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/22/for-its-2023-black-founders-fund-cohort-google-provides-a-list-of-25-african-startups/

Authorities arrested 28 people in Nevada after an anonymous tip led them to find an illegal cockfighting ring where deputies found 59 dead roosters in the area, the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office said.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/19/cockfighting-ring-busted-in-nevada-dozens-of-dead-roosters-found-28-face-felony-charges/

Binance has issued a cease and desist order to “Binance Nigeria Limited”, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a tweet on Sunday, calling the Nigerian company a “scammer entity”.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/19/binance-issues-cease-and-desist-notice-to-binance-nigeria-limited/

“This would have been better if we are giving it to those set of students who are very poor, it should be called a grant, not a loan,” ASUU National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme today.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/19/convert-student-loan-to-grant-for-poor-students-ASUU-urges-tinubu/

Canada has announced visa-free travel for visitors from 13 different countries across Asia, Africa, Central and South America on Tuesday.

The visa-free travel is extended to Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts-Nevis, Panama, Argentina, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Morocco, Seychelles, st. Vincent and the Grenadines, Thailand and the Philippines, according to the Canadian government.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/06/08/nigeria-is-left-out-as-canada-adds-two-other-african-countries-to-its-visa-free-travel-list/

The live broadcast of the Presidential Election Tribunal, according to the president-elect Bola Tinubu, is an abuse of the legal system.

In response to an application made by PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu urged the tribunal to disapprove such a course of action.
https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/05/18/why-atikus-request-for-live-coverage-needs-to-be-denied-tinubu/

Davido, an Afrobeat musician, has disclosed the price he now demands for a feature.

The disclosure was revealed by the Timeless musician in a widely shared video of a recent social media interview.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/05/18/i-charge-100000-for-a-feature-says-davido/

It’s been 35 days since Antonio Conte’s rant after the Southampton game about this Spurs team. He was right then and he’s still right.
https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/04/23/newcastle-defeated-tottenham-6-1-a-shambolic-performance/

Former Governor of Enugu state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has asked the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi to withdraw his petition against the President Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and join him in the task of making a new nation.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/04/23/withdraw-the-legal-action-and-support-tinubu-for-a-new-nigeria-nnamani-tells-obi/

Comedian, Ayo Makun, popularly called, AY Comedian has opened up about his long-time beef with his colleague, Basket Mouth.

In an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, AY revealed how Basketmouth used to connect him with events when he was starting out in the comedy industry, and how a particular event sparked the rift.

[url]https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/27/my-17-year-feud-with-basketmouth-began-because-i-was-owed-%e2%82%a630k-according-to-comedian-ay/[/url]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria on Sunday flew out to Guinea-Bissau for the reverse fixture of their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Djurtus of Guinea-Bissau.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/27/super-eagles-depart-for-bissau-to-face-djurtus-in-the-afcon-qualifier/

Guinea U-23 head coach, Morlaye Cisse is upbeat his team will beat the Olympic Eagles to the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations ticket.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/23/in-rabat-well-defeat-the-olympic-eagles-says-guinea-coach-cisse/

The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has defeated the All Progressive Party to win Saturday’s governorship election in Kano State.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/20/kabir-of-the-nnpp-is-proclaimed-the-winner-of-the-kano-governorship-by-inec/

The third-richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, has disclosed plans for the Project Kuiper satellite internet dishes. Amazon’s decision puts Elon Musk’s Starlink, which just debuted in Nigeria, squarely in competition with it.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/19/as-amazon-releases-more-affordable-portable-satellite-internet-devices-jeff-bezos-challenges-elon-musks-starlink/

The driver of the Lagos State Government staff bus that was involved in the incident that led to a train colliding with the bus at the PWD/ Shogunle railway line, on the Agege motor road in Lagos, on Thursday, has appealed to victims of the accident to forgive him.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/11/driver-of-a-lagos-brt-asks-for-forgiveness-after-crashing-with-a-train-report/

Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on drainages, Joe Igbokwe has declared that the president-elect Bola Tinubu will remain Nigeria’s president until 2031 and thereafter, handover power to a northerner who will rule the country till 2039.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/11/joe-igbokwe-a-northerner-will-succeed-tinubu-as-ruler-of-nigeria-in-2031/

It was a painful sight, yesterday, as scores of victims of the Lagos bus–train collision were being attended to by medical doctors at Lagos State University Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/10/in-the-lagos-train-bus-collision-six-people-died-and-79-were-injured/

No fewer than seven persons have been confirmed dead, while others sustained injuries, in an accident involving a moving train and a Lagos State government Staff bus, at Shogunle area of Ikeja, Lagos, yesterday.

One of the survivors of the accident, simply called Titilayo, revealed that they begged the driver of the bus to wait for the train to pass, but he refused.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/10/we-asked-the-driver-to-wait-but-he-refused-survivor-train-brt-crash/

Governor Nyesom Wike has threatened to chase those who made the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) party lost the presidential poll conducted nationwide on February 25 from the party.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/09/wike-well-drive-those-who-caused-pdp-to-lose-the-presidential-election-away/

The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has insisted that the presidential election held on February 25 was won by the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, and not the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/08/afenifere-claims-obi-won-and-challenges-tinubus-victory/

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, embarked on a campaign tour of major markets populated by people from the South-East.

Sanwo-Olu took a tour of the markets ahead of Saturday’s governorship election, following the open endorsement for his re-election by the Ndigbo community in the state.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/08/sanwo-olu-guarantees-the-security-of-igbo-businessmen/

The World Health Organisation (WHO), says about 135 million people in Africa have ear and hearing problems.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/04/almost-135-million-africans-suffer-from-ear-and-hearing-issues/

After a crazy week filled with anxiety-inducing news, take a break and unwind with these interesting titles.
Let's face it: this week has been stressful, regardless of who you voted for in the Nigerian presidential election.

https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/04/5-nigerian-films-that-help-you-relax-during-election-tension/

The National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Betta Edu, has disclosed that her party has opened talks with the Labour Party to form an alliance ahead of the Saturday, March 11 governorship election in Cross Rivers State.
https://acrosstheweb.com.ng/2023/03/04/apc-and-labour-party-collaborate-to-win-the-cross-river-gubernatorial-election-betta-edu/