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The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has pleaded with Nigerian airlines to suspend their planned shutdown of operations from Monday over the increase of cost of aviation fuel from N190 to N700 per litre. Mr Sirika made the appeal in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Affairs, James Odaudu, on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigerian airlines, under the aegis of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), on Friday announced plans to shut down…

The General Motors world headquarters office is seen at Detroit's Renaissance Center.Paul Hennessy | LightRocket | Getty ImagesDETROIT — There's growing concern among Wall Street analysts that higher costs and supply chain disruptions will put pressure on 2022 earnings for General Motors and Ford Motor — even more than initially expected.Ahead of the Detroit automakers' first-quarter earnings reports this week, several analysts cited such problems, including inflation and parts disruptions caused by the coronavirus…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Misperceptions of marginalized and disadvantaged communities' level of concern regarding COVID-19, as well as other issues such as climate change, constitutes a form of social misinformation that may undermine cooperation and trust needed to address collective problems, according to new Cornell-led research.…

In the wake of the world witnessing yet another surge in Covid-19 cases, a modelling study published on Monday has said that unvaccinated people threaten the safety of those who are vaccinated against Covid-19 even when the immunisation rates are high.  Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada used a simple model to explore the effect of mixing between unvaccinated and vaccinated people to understand the dynamics of an infectious disease like SARS-CoV-2, according to news…