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Axxela Limited has announced the appointment of new non-executive Board members to deepen strategic oversight and strengthen corporate governance in support of the company’s next phase of exponential growth. The newly appointed Board members include: Founder/pioneer Chief Executive Officer of Levene Energy Holdings, Nzan Ogbe, who is now Chairman of the Axxela’s  Board, according to a statement signed by the Manager, Corporate Communications & Branding, Omolara Shitu. Other members of the board are Eric Idiahi, Dolu Olugbenjo, Olufemi Okin, Moshood Olajide, Kaat Van Hecke and Jeremy Bending.  Axxela said their combined experience in business leadership, financial management, and infrastructure development…

Meta has paused a new company-wide program of tracking its employees’ computer usage which has been plagued by internal frustration.The program was started only two months ago as part of an effort by Meta to gather data on how people used computers, including mouse clicks and keystrokes, that could be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.It was met immediately with upset from employees who were to have their every online action at work tracked and recorded, but also concerned about where the data was going and how it would be protected.Meta halted the program on Monday after realising some…

Keir Starmer is the latest to step down, after less than two years in office.From a landslide victory in 2024 to a remarkable downfall this week.Keir Starmer is quitting. He’s the sixth British prime minister to step down in the last decade.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listHis resignation came one day before the anniversary of the vote to leave the European Union.Many say Brexit has been one of the main drivers behind the leadership crisis.Others point to increasing public discontent over successive governments.Starmer’s departure will set in motion a contest to replace him as head of the Labour…

“Europe will always choose science,” Ursula von der Leyen announced in May 2025 in a landmark speech that kicked off a European Union-wide campaign to attract scientists fleeing the chaotic US research environment. The president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch in Brussels, didn’t explicitly mention US President Donald Trump, but she didn’t have to. Trump’s administration had in the preceding months frozen grant funding, pulled the United States from global scientific organizations and begun firing federal research staff.Europe’s leaders hope to fill the vacuum left by chaos in the United States — and position the region as…

United States authorities have seized more than 300 unauthorised drones at World Cup sites since the tournament began earlier this month.On matchdays, all aircraft operations, including drones, are prohibited within a three-mile radius of stadiums and up to 3,000 feet above ​them. Similar restrictions cover fan zones.The restrictions were brought in as safety measures to prevent drones being a threat to people on the ground.But they are also part of wider moves to protect against potential terrorism – last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bolster US defences against drone attacks.FBI teams are stationed around World Cup…

Tom Cruise‘s love for cinema has been well-documented — from his high-stakes stunts promoting the “Mission: Impossible” movies to his trips to the theater to support the latest blockbusters like Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” and the pop culture phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.” But there’s no greater evidence of Cruise’s love of the art form than the varied roles he’s played over the years. On Tuesday, the movie star posted a retrospective clip spotlighting some of his greatest roles, from action-packed blockbusters like “Top Gun” and “Edge of Tomorrow,” to his dramatic turns in “Rain Man” and “Born…

Name: Cold feet.Age: No, wait, I know this. Late 90s I think, so about 31? No, because this isn’t to do with Cold Feet, the TV comedy drama about middle-class couples living in Manchester. We’re talking lower-case cold feet.As in last-minute hesitation, likely caused by fear or second thoughts, before a major life event, such as your own wedding? Not even. Think more literally: feet that are cold.Got it, lower case, lower temperature. And why are they cold? Because you’ve put socks on them.But I tend to put socks on to keep them warm. These socks have been in the…

Several Russian regions are facing fuel shortages because of Ukrainian attacks.Published On 23 Jun 202623 Jun 2026A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least three people, as Moscow struggles with the economic strain of the four-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war.Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih defence council, said in a post on Telegram on Tuesday that 25 people had been wounded in the attack, which he said used a cluster munition warhead.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“People died within 200 metres [660 feet] of each other because of this barbaric…

An artist has withdrawn a video installation from the National Portrait Gallery in London that blamed Winston Churchill for a famine in colonial-era India, after a historian and others complained that its characterization of Churchill’s role was inaccurate.In the video, titled “Persistence,” the artist Helen Cammock, who narrates the work, compares Churchill to Oliver Cromwell, a commander during the British Civil Wars of the mid-1600s. She says in the video that her opinion of Cromwell changed after she learned that he had “starved people, en masse, a little like the willful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.”Andrew Roberts,…

SpaceX shares climbed about 5% on Tuesday, bouncing back from a three-day skid during which the stock lost nearly 24%.Shortly after the market open, shares slipped below $150, the price of its first trade when it debuted nearly two weeks ago. The initial slide also took the market cap below $2 trillion.Elon Musk’s space and artificial intelligence company saw a $400 billion sell-off on Monday, tanking 16%, following drops of 3.6% and 5% the previous two days of trading.SpaceX posted huge gains after a record-breaking IPO on June 12, briefly surpassing Amazon and Microsoft in market capitalization, before falling back…