Nigeria news today headlines : Friday 1st May 2020
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French Rugby Suspended Until September
French rugby authorities and club presidents reached agreement Thursday to cancel the 2019-2020 season and concentrate on ensuring the 2020-2021 campaign starts in September. The season was halted in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision to end the season was made with the LNR and the presidents of the clubs in the top-flight …
ECB To Launch The Hundred In 2021
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirms that the launch of The Hundred will now take place in summer 2021. The news follows a meeting dedicated to the subject, where the Board concluded it was not possible for the competition to be staged this year. The new competition has a vision to …
British Airways To Axe 12,000 Jobs
British Airways has told pilots that it expects to reduce headcount by more than a quarter in the first details obtained since it announced swingeing job cuts as a result of the coronavirus crisis. In a letter to pilots seen by Sky News, the airline says it plans to reduce headcount by 955 for what …
Royal Air Force Intercepts 2 Russian Planes
The chief of Britain’s air force has condemned its Russian counterpart after two maritime patrol bombers were intercepted north-east of Scotland. Royal Air Force Typhoon fighters were deployed from a base in Lossiemouth, Moray, as the Russian Tu-142 “Bear-F” aircraft approached from the north-east on Wednesday. The Russian planes stayed in international airspace over the …
Amazon To Impose Unpaid Leave Restrictions For Workers
Amazon is changing its unpaid leave policies starting next month, according to a report from Bloomberg. On May 1st, hourly employees — a vast majority of which are among the company’s 250,000 or so warehouse workers who cannot work from home — must request an unpaid leave of absence to continue staying home if they do not …
AstraZeneca, Oxford University To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine
Pharma giant AstraZeneca said it had teamed up with the University of Oxford to develop and distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine with the first results from clinical trials set to arrive over the next few months. The collaboration aims to bring the potential vaccine known as ChAdOx1nCov-19 developed by the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group to …
Moscow Accused Of Making Ineffective Air Defense Systems
The Syrian military criticized the Russian radar systems used by the S-300 air defense system and the Pantsir-S air defense system, saying that they were completely useless with respect to Israeli cruise missiles, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing news agency Aviapro. As it turned out, the radars of these systems are completely unsuitable for hitting such targets. However, …
B&Q Reopens All Its UK Stores
B&Q has reopened all its stores across the UK following the coronavirus shutdown. The DIY retailer has gradually reopened its 288 UK stores over the past two weeks, with its last remaining sites opening their doors to the public on Thursday. Customers have flocked to its stores, resulting in long queues of shoppers after social …
Oasis, Warehouse Group To Cease Trading
The Oasis and Warehouse Group will close its website and all stores after administrators failed to find a buyer, resulting in 1,803 redundancies. The joint administrators of the group, which includes Oasis, Warehouse and The Idle Man, confirmed they have been unable to rescue any part of the business “as a going concern”, blaming the “extraordinary challenges” of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. …
ECB Intensifies Crisis Response With New Loans
The European Central Bank intensified its response to the coronavirus crisis, cheapening the cost of its emergency lending program for banks and unveiling a further facility to inject liquidity in the economy. Hours after data showed the worst three-month contraction in a quarter of a century of data, the Frankfurt institution delivered a new lending …
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