President Buhari described the Zamfara kidnap as “inhumane and totally unacceptable.” President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will not succumb to blackmail by bandits following the latest abduction of students in Northern Nigeria. PREMIUM TIMES reported how 317 schoolgirls were kidnapped by armed bandits from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara…
Following the cold-blooded attack perpetrated by TPLF against the Ethiopian National Defense Forces on 4 November 2020, there was a complete breakdown of law and order in Tigray. The complex challenges in the region are a direct consequence of this treasonous act. None other than the TPLF should, therefore, take the primary responsibility for what…
Jeff Grubb@jeffgrubb February 26, 2021 3:49 PM Last week, Nintendo delivered its first general Direct in more than a year, and now other Sony and The Pokémon Company followed up this week with their own events. Editors Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about that as well as EA’s shifting direction on this week’s episode…
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. IBM and Siemens this week expanded an existing alliance to include deployments of MindSphere, a managed internet of things (IoT) service provided by Siemens, on an instance of the Red Hat OpenShift platform. The goal is to make it simpler…
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Shortly after a meeting with members of Congress on Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that launches a review of supply chain vulnerabilities in the United States. COVID-19 made evident gaps in the U.S. supply chain in medical…
Just a month into his presidency, Joe Biden was poised to earn his first major legislative victory as the House prepared to pass his sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill—a package that has broad support among Americans, including an overwhelming percentage of Democrats and even some conservatives, who welcome the idea of another round of…
Justin Bieber announced today the forthcoming release of his sixth studio album Justice on March 19, revealing the cover art for his new music on social media which prominently features a cross in place of the “T” in the title over a moody green and blue-tinted shot of the star. The new record will feature…
On Friday, the AP reported that Mr. Potato Head would become “Potato Head”—an act of inclusion, Hasbro, who makes the toy, said. Forevermore, all could feel “welcome in the Potato Head world.”The requisite fallout mostly occurred on Twitter. Of the whole kerfuffle, Kimberly Boyd, a senior vice president at Hasbro, told the AP, “It created…
In an industry blossoming with ingenuity, Black brands are staking out meaningful turf across categories: clean formulas for textured hair, results-oriented serums, and easy-drinking wellness tonics among them. In honor of Black History Month, the Vanity Fair team highlights 15 companies that are making waves, at a time—namely, all the time—when it’s important to support…
The brightly colored, cheerfully surrealist world of this year’s Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue is instantly appealing. It shows a place you’d like to walk inside—or, perhaps, an ideal theme for an Oscar party that can’t happen. But a cover this bold could only follow a year of pandemic. The team behind the Hollywood Issue brought…
