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Thousands of passengers have been stranded in Kenya’s four main airports after a strike by workers caused a major disruption to flights. Workers say they are unhappy over a planned merger between the airport authority and the national airline. About 60 flights have failed to take off at Jomo Kenyatta Airport – East Africa’s largest. […]
The Lagos State Government has directed that the Second Mid-Term break for all schools should hold on Friday, March 8, 2019. According to a statement issued by the State Ministry of Education, all public and private schools in the state are expected to close on Thursday, March 7, 2019, and resume on Monday, March 11, […]
The Inspector-General of Police, MA Adamu, has proscribed with immediate effect the covering of Vehicle Number Plates by all unauthorized vehicle users across the Country. The IGP gave this order on Tuesday, 5th March, 2019, following intelligence report that the unwholesome practice may be deployed by some unscrupulous persons to aid the commission of electoral […]
The trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh at the Federal High Court, Abuja has suffered a major setback following application by the defence counsel to withdraw from the matter. Metuh and his company, Dextra Investment Ltd., are being prosecuted by the Federal government over alleged money […]
For just the second time ever an HIV patient is in sustained remission from the virus in what was hailed by experts Tuesday as proof that the AIDS-causing condition could one day be curable. Ten years almost to the day since the first confirmed case of an HIV-infected person being rid of the deadly disease, […]
Three weeks after the UBA group launched its operations in Mali, the global financial city of London hosted a high level gathering of business and public sector leaders on Thursday February 28, 2019, as the new UBA franchise, UBA UK was formally birthed in the United Kingdom amidst high expectations. At the upscale ceremony which held at […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal and state governments to the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over alleged attacks on journalists and bloggers. According to a statement issued by SERAP , its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, said the group is suing the government for what it described as “the […]
The former Military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida has advised President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to heal the wounds of the heated campaign exchanges by embracing those who contested alongside with him. Congratulating President Buhari on his re-election for the next four Years, General Babangida urged him to resist any temptation of seeing […]
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said the country recorded a total trade value of N32.26 trillion year-on-year in 2018, representing 39.3 per cent increase over the corresponding period in 2017. The trade value for 2017 stood at N23.16 trillion. As was published in VON , the NBS said this in Foreign Trade in […]