Former world number one Daniil Medvedev will headline the return of elite men’s tennis to China after a COVID-enforced break of four years, organisers said on Wednesday. The Russian, winner of the US Open in 2021 and a two-time Australian Open runner-up, will play at the ATP Tour’s Zhuhai Championships on September 20-26. Zhuhai Championships officials have also been in “fruitful” talks with other grand-slam champions and top-ranked players, the ATP said. Those are followed by the China Open in Beijing starting in late September, before the prestigious Shanghai Masters in October. The women’s WTA Tour said earlier this month that it too will return to China this year.

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“They told the President elect Tuesday night that all of us from the South West are supporting Akpabio for Senate President but the President elect discovered it was untrue this morning. They are not our leaders and cannot take South West Senators for granted. We are happy that the President elect did not listen to them because he is not petty. The twelve senators from the South West already have a preferred candidate. The Northern Senators and Southern Senators believe in the leadership of this two senators and there is no going back.

The World Trade Organisation, the World Bank Group and the World Economic Forum have announced the launch of “Action on Climate and Trade”. In a statement, WTO said that the initiative’s objective was to help developing economies, particularly the least-developed countries, utilise trade as a tool to attain their climate change mitigation and adaptation targets. Trade policy offers WTO members, including developing members, a wide variety of options to enhance their climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. Developing economies must be empowered to identify new opportunities and shape a future net-zero global economy. “WTO’s World Trade Report 2022, global cooperation on international trade and related investment needs to be mobilised to enhance the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change, support a just low-carbon transition, and minimise trade frictions,” he said.

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Niger Delta has signed a deal with a United States based firm, Atlanta Global Resources Inc, for the construction of a $15bn rail project that will stretch across all nine Niger Delta states. The deal was signed on Tuesday at the NDDC Public-Private Partnership summit in Lagos, with the theme, ‘Rewind to Rebirth’. Speaking at the event, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Umana Umana, said the PPP was an initiative geared towards attracting foreign and private investors to fund the massive developmental challenges in the Niger Delta. That is why the government established the Niger Delta Development Commission in 2000 with the sole mandate of facilitating the region’s rapid, even, and sustainable development. For instance, the private sector is better equipped with expertise, resources, and technology to drive economic growth and development.

The Abia State governor-elect, Alex Otti, has thanked the Abia League of Professionals Initiative for supporting his ambition to become the governor of the state. In a statement he personally signed, Otti assured the professionals that he would deliver on the mandate he was given. I can assure you that you will be proud of our service to Abia people particularly and Nigerians in general. “I’m also not unaware that a tiny minority either didn’t support me or sat on the fence. Your emergence as the governor of Abia State, at this God’s appointed time, is certainly for a reason, as our good Lord makes all things possible and beautiful in his time.

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WhatsApp has announced a game-changing update, which allows users to log into as many as four smartphones with the same account, simultaneously. The development comes on the heels of many requests made by people using WhatsApp on multiple devices. “Starting today, you can log into the same WhatsApp account on up to four phones,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a post on Tuesday. The new feature will be particularly useful for people who have both a personal and a work phone, as they will be able to use the same WhatsApp account on both devices. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNEEXPLAINER: What happens if an elected lawmaker dies after election?

The cross-continent support of the global tech community has culminated in a sold-out GITEX Africa 2023, with an expansion phase now underway as construction ramps up of a purpose-built super venue in Marrakech, Morocco for Africa’s largest and most influential tech and start-up event. “GITEX Africa Morocco will thus aim to promote multi-sector technological innovation and the digital transformation of the continent, pursuant to the Orientations of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, May God Assist Him. “That GITEX Africa is so well received in its inaugural edition is a strong validation of the world’s confidence and optimism in the growth of the African digital economy. IBM, a global technology and consulting company, will utilise GITEX Africa 2023 to amplify their commitment to the continent. Mr Badrane Kaddour, Africa Partner Ecosystem Leader at IBM, said, “Our portfolio is built around hybrid cloud and AI, the two most transformational technologies of our time.

The Nigerian Government, through its ministers of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and Foreign Affairs, has said it will airlift Nigerians stranded in Sudan back home as part of efforts to bring them back amidst the ongoing crisis in the country. The government has set in motion a mechanism to ensure the safe extraction of Nigerians from Sudan to Nigeria amidst the humanitarian crisis and attendant crisis caused by the conflict, which is forcing many to flee Sudan through contiguous borders. The ministers decried the growing humanitarian crisis and empathized with the entire civilian population, including Nigerian students and other members of the Nigerian community caught up in the ongoing crisis between the Sudanese Army and the Paramilitary rapid support forces. The Nigerian Government has urged those caught up in the crisis to reach out to the Nigerian mission in Sudan for further instructions or call listed numbers, while assuring parents of students in Sudan to advise their wards to remain calm and maintain constant communication with officials of the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan until they are airlifted. The government emphasizes that concrete plans are already underway to deploy air transport to evacuate all stranded Nigerian citizens at the earliest.

US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election in 2024 in the form of a three-minute video. “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America. And we still are, the question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. That’s why I’m running for reelection,” he said in the video. He stated that voters will be faced with the choice of leaving the next generation with “more freedom or less” and “more rights or fewer”.

Singapore is set to hang a man, Tangaraju Suppiah, for trafficking cannabis, in the city-state’s latest controversial execution, the BBC reports. Tangaraju, 46, was convicted of “abetting by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic” over a delivery of 1kg (35oz) of cannabis from Malaysia to Singapore in 2013. Singapore law mandates the death penalty for drug trafficking and has lesser penalties for couriers. It follows a high-profile execution last year of an intellectually impaired man over a drugs charge. Singapore has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws, which it says are necessary to protect society.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has so far spent $1.1bn on the construction of the $2.8bn Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline project, the Group Chief Executive Officer, NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, announced on Monday. Kyari spoke during the inspection of the facility in Akoho village, around the Lokoja end of the gas pipeline project in Kogi State. We will deliver this project,” Kyari stated. “There are over 30 sites that are active today in this project and we are very optimistic that we will deliver this project,” Kyari stated. Last week, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said the $2.8bn natural gas pipeline project was 43 per cent completed.

Eko Innovation Centre has announced that three teams emerged as winners of its SecureHack 1.0 competition. The Chief Juror of the Hackathon and Group Head, Emerging Businesses, Africa Bank Plc., Ayodele Olojede, said, “The underlining factor we looked at among other criteria was that of civic good. Related News Bank opens entries for tech competition“So, you are able to come up with a solution you can make money with, and at the same time, you are solving a challenge that could benefit society. We looked at how great the contestants’ ideas were and also checked if there is a team that can progress this, we looked at the quality of the delivery, how they responded to questions, and also looked at their business models.”In a statement, the , andFounder of Eko Innovation Centre and Curator of SecureHack 1.0, Victor Afolabi, emphasised the importance of cybersecurity and the need for innovation in addressing security threats. He said, “Security threat is much more than an IT topic and we are doing our bit at the Eko Innovation Centre to drive the growth of this ecosystem.”The keynote speaker, Head, IT GRC & DPO, Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited, Oluwasolape Akinde, highlighted the challenges facing cybersecurity in Africa’s emerging digital economy and the need for best practices to strengthen cybersecurity, collaborations, and partnerships.

Opinion The faceless and the reckless 7 Apr Let me begin this piece with the obvious. These are trying times for our country. Tensions are rising and heating up the polity. Transitional general elections such as the current general elections usually throw up new challenges that a country... FacebookTwitterWhatsAppTelegramYouth Magazine Reimagining higher education in Nigeria 8 Apr Higher or tertiary education, like all sectors, is fair game for disruption. We saw a glimpse in the pandemic, where classes were held online, and courseware unbundled from college staples like libraries and cafeterias was delivered directly to devices.