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Comedian Akpororo and his wife, Josephine are celebrating their first wedding anniversary today, November 14th, 2016. They welcomed their first child, a baby girl in August 2016. Celebrating their love, Akpororo wrote:“My world, my all in one. Thank you for coming into my life, thank you for your understanding and for been a good wife […]
Donald Trump on Wednesday named South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a former critic who has little foreign policy experience, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at a time of uncertainty over America’s international role under his presidency. Haley, one of two women chosen for a job in Trump’s Cabinet, is “a […]
The Senior Fertiliser Specialist, African Fertiliser and Agribusiness Partnership, Mr. Paul Makepeace, says Nigeria loses 30 million tonnes of urea (fertiliser) through gas-flaring. Makepeace said this in Abuja on Wednesday at the Nigeria Fertiliser Roadmap Stakeholders’ Consultative meeting. He said if the huge amount of gas being flared was be captured and cleaned, the country […]
Following the directive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), lecturers at the Lagos State University (LASU) returned to classes on Wednesday. Dr. Isaac Oyewunmi, the chairman of LASU’s chapter of ASUU, told newsmen in Lagos that: “We have all resumed today (Wednesday) as directed by the national body because the one week strike […]
Sixteen days after a Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos declared the exercise unconstitutional, the Lagos State Government on Wednesday abolished the monthly environmental sanitation exercise held between 7:00a.m. and 10:00a.m. on the last Saturday of every month. With the abolition of the sanitation exercise, however, the state government asked its residents to comply with […]
The Naira on Wednesday appreciated against the dollar at the interbank market, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Nigerian currency gained 50k to close at N304.50 compared to N305 it traded on Tuesday. At the Bureau De Change (BDC) window, the Naira was sold at N400 CBN controlled rate, while the Pound Sterling […]
Fidelia Okafor The Commissioner of Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, Dr Felix Abali has asked for the establishment of an Accident Intervention Fund for the Bureau. He stated this during the visit of the Senate Committee on Aviation to the aviation industry. Abali explained that the fund is very crucial to the industry. Abali using Malaysia […]
From: Fidelia Okafor Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu of Nigeria (centre) is congratulated on his re-election as Council President by the Representatives of the ICAO Council. Nigeria’s Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu was re-elected by acclamation yesterday for a second three-year term as President of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). In his acceptance […]
Fidelis Okafor Ikeja Electric (Formerly Ikeja Disco) has clearly stated that it cannot continue with its metering project under present circumstances thereby causing the consumers not yet metered within the network controlled by them to wait longer than expected. The company complained that current exchange rate has made it impossible to continue to implement such […]