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Should we allow 3rd parties to display games at the standard 3pm kickoff time or keep the blackout? Discuss. I feel like removing it would standardise the games to a 3:00 kick off, a big win, so these are my thoughts submitted by /u/Sooty2708 [comments] Source link
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has invited Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, over the prolonged electricity blackout that has severely disrupted daily life and economic activities in the North. According to a statement on Monday by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu, who […]
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the 2023 elections, Dr. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has expressed his displeasure and sadness over the massive blackout that has affected Northern Nigeria for about eight days. In a message posted on his X page on Monday, Kwankwaso described the situation as disheartening and pathetic. […]
An evening curfew continued to remain in place on Saturday in Guadeloupe as French authorities worked to restore power to the Caribbean territory. The EDF power company said that electricity had been restored to two-thirds of the 380,000 people affected by the blackout. The French authorities accused striking workers of blocking the engines at the main […]
Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Friday suffered a mobile internet blackout after protests against the re-election of the ruling Frelimo party descended into violence. Protests erupted on Thursday with hundreds of opposition supporters rejecting what they called a ballot “stolen” by a “corrupt” electoral commission in favour of the party which has ruled since 1975. The […]
Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders in the private sector. Up until now, AGCOM, Italy’s independent telecoms regulator, has been Piracy Shield’s greatest supporter, at least of those not already benefiting financially from the activities of football league Serie A, currently the only beneficiary of […]
Cuba’s government said on Saturday it had made some progress in gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitals and parts of the capital, Havana, after state-run media earlier reported the national grid had collapsed for a second time in 24 hours. Most of Cuba’s 10 million people, however, remained without electricity on […]
Nigeria’s national grid has collapsed again. This is the third time this will happen in just one week. The latest collapse occurred early Saturday morning, with many states reporting total blackouts. DAILY POST obtained data from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org) and it revealed that the grid recorded zero megawatts (MW) as of 9.20am […]
By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba restored a trickle of power to its grid by mid-evening on Friday, officials said, hours after the island plunged into a countrywide blackout following the collapse of one of its major power plants. The vast majority of the country’s 10 million residents were still in the […]