After roughly $300 million invested, 23 days in operation, and just 10,000 daily viewers, the numbers for CNN+ just didn’t add up. The streaming service’s parent, CNN, has decided to shutter the product; April 30 will be its last day in operation. The decision was confirmed by CNN on its website, just three days after reports surfaced that the company had decided to cut CNN+’s marketing budget. During today’s conference call with investors, AT&T, the former parent company of CNN, noted that “declines in earnings at WarnerMedia reflect increased investments incurred in launching CNN+ and expanding new territories at HBO…
Author: Orientalnews Staff
Richard Ginika Izuora World Bank president David Malpass has warned that the world likely face a “human catastrophe” from a food crisis arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, He told the BBC that record rises in food prices would push hundreds of millions people into poverty and lower nutrition, if the crisis continues. The World Bank calculates there could be a “huge” 37 per cent jump in food prices. This would hit the poor hardest, who will “eat less and have less money for anything else such as schooling”. In an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Mr Malpass,…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it raided and sealed Diplomatic Suite Hotel, Asokoro, Abuja, in a joint operation with men of the Department of State Services (DSS). The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Babafemi said the raid was an attempt to stop a cannabis party and the launch of a suspected new psychoactive drink. He said about 200 attendees, including three young ladies who organised the hemp party, were currently being profiled and interviewed, while bottles of the new drink had been taken for lab…
A private secondary school in Gombe, Nurul Huda International Academy, has started a four-day Computer Based Test (CBT) free training for students who registered for 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Director of the school, Mrs Maryam Ahmed, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Thursday. She said that the training was opened to everyone who had registered for the examination and interested in learning. She said that such activities would improve academic performance and orient the students on how to use the examination software. According to her, the free exercise…
The Police Command in Katsina State says it neutralised two suspected terrorists, and rescued two victims when it repelled a terrorist attack at Tsamiyar Gamzako village, in Kafur Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Gambo Isah, who disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Katsina, said that one AK 47 riffle was also recovered in the process. “Today, April 21, 2022, a distress call was received that terrorists in their numbers, armed with AK 47 rifles, attacked Tsamiyar Gamzako village, Kafur LGA. “The terrorists kidnapped one HaMa Sanusi, aged 30, and her…
Delta released a minor used for alms begging to her grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Igwe, in Asaba on Thursday. The grandmother had been arrested in Warri, Delta, earlier in the year alongside six other women, who were using minors for alms begging. She was incarcerated and released from prison custody on March 17. The Delta government made Mrs Igwe to sign an undertaking not to repeat the prank before the minor was handed over to her. Having taken custody of the minor, Mrs Igwe said she appreciated the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community and Social Development, for releasing her grandchild to…
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Thursday called for the enactment of protection laws and full implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. The NUJ, Kogi branch, made the call in a communique after a one-day workshop organised by Stallion Times Media Services in collaboration with the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. The workshop, facilitated through the Collaborative Media Project with support from the MacArthur Foundation, was attended by journalists from broadcast, print and blogosphere organisations. The workshop resolved that government officials should be compelled to adhere to provisions of the FOI Act by making available required information…
Yemisi Izuora The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has narrated how efforts were made to save the life of a female passenger at the Abuja airport. While the Agency regretted the incident, Faithful A. Hope-Ivbaze, Ag General Manager, Corporate Affairs, said the incident happened at about 0834hours on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. According to her, the female passenger was waiting to board a Lagos bound flight from the domestic terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and was observed having difficulty in breathing at the boarding hall, but later passed on after frantic efforts made at resuscitating her,…