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The Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) Plc Profit Before Income Tax rose by 57 per cent to N566,665,000 in the year ended December 31, 2020. This is just as the ground handling company’s profit for the year increased by 84.15 per cent to N482,377 from N220,434 in 2019. SAHCO also approved dividend of 16.5k per […]
Authorities in Namibia say reserves of medical oxygen have been “exhausted” with the country experiencing record numbers of daily deaths from coronavirus. Health Minister, Kalumbi Shangula on Friday said “oxygen delivery to patients is not at a satisfactory level”. In severe cases, the virus damages the lungs, causing the body’s oxygen levels to drop and […]
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday identified drug trafficking and abuse as more threatening to the stability of the nation than banditry and insurgency that are prevalent in some parts of Nigeria. The president, declared that drug abuse has become so endemic in the country now that it already stretches across three generations of grandparents, […]
More than a dozen fully vaccinated doctors have died of Covid-19 in Indonesia, according to a medical association, as the Southeast Asian country battles a rash of severe cases in inoculated medical workers and highly infectious new virus strains. Infections have surged in the nation of 270 million people in the past week, with more […]
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General, Faruk Yahaya, has urged troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force North East Operation Hadin Kai to destroy all Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province terrorist enclaves in their various locations. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General, Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement, said that […]
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has extended its Cloud RAN (Radio Access Network) offering to include support for 5G mid-band and Massive MIMO deployments. With mid-band spectrum, communications service providers can capitalize on their 5G spectral assets to roll out services quickly and efficiently, while delivering a more responsive experience to mobile broadband users. These latest enhancements […]
The Kaduna State Government has announced a strategic and exclusive partnership with leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, to modernize and digitalize its entire telecoms and network infrastructure as well as deploy Broadband services across the State. Speaking recently during an MOU signing ceremony with the leadership of Airtel Nigeria, Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir […]
Winifred Bosa The Directors-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed to enhance their support to members battling COVID-19 by collaborating on a series of workshops to augment the flow of information on the pandemic and by implementing a joint platform for tripartite […]
The African Union, in partnership with the International Committee of the All African Music Awards, AFRIMA, has formally unveiled the calendar of events for the upcoming 2021 edition of the awards ceremony. The unveiling event took place at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 23, 2021. The unveiling activity marks the […]
Winifred Bosa The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia, to “issue provisional measures to urgently stop the Nigerian government and National Assembly from supporting and pushing through two bills to gag the media, and impose arbitrary and harsh punishment on journalists, […]