The decomposing body of the daughter of a former deputy state governor in Nigeria has been found at the home of an alleged member of a cyber-crime gang. Police warned women not to date members of the gang following the discovery of the body of Khadijat Olubọyọ under the bed of her alleged lover in […]
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has attributed the current power outage on its network to what it called system collapse of the National Grid. Mr Godwin Idemudia, the General Manager, Corporate Communications of the company, said on Monday that the outage which occurred about 2.27 p.m. on Sunday affected Ajah, Akangba and Agbara transmission […]
A 15-member Governing Council was on Saturday in Lagos elected into the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding of Nigeria (CRFFN). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the newly-elected CRFFN officials, drawn from five registered freight forwarding associations, would be joined by 17 government appointees into the council. The five registered associations […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the third richest man in the world, overtaking Warren Buffett on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s richest people. Zuckerberg passed Buffett Friday as Facebook shares rose 2.4 percent, Bloomberg reported. The daily rankings of the world’s 500 richest people listed in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed the top 3 […]
Following the recent Otedola link bridge fire accident in Lagos, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, said it was prepared to partner Lagos State Government by complying with its directives on how to checkmate tanker related road accidents in the state. The Lagos Zonal Chairman of NUPENG, Tayo Aboyeji, told […]
Nigerian traders fleeing Cameroon. Above a street shut down in Kumba, Cameroon by secessionists, certainly bad for business The security crisis ravaging English-speaking regions of Cameroon is driving away many of the biggest traders originally from neighbouring Nigeria who have traditionally run key markets in towns around the regions, a report by Quartz Africa said. […]
The fifth film in the “Jurassic” franchise hit $1 billion at the global box office, making it the thirty-fifth movie to reach that milestone. “Fallen Kingdom” joins its predecessor, 2015’s “Jurassic World,” which ended its theatrical run with $1.7 billion. In North America, “Fallen Kingdom” has pocketed $304.8 million and $700.7 million from international territories. […]
Italy’s shutting of its ports to humanitarian rescue ships will trap more migrants in Libyan detention centres and in the hands of smugglers, where they face beatings and abuse, aid group Doctors without Borders (MSF) said. Cristophe Biteau, an Doctors without Borders (MSF) mission leader in Libya, said everyone intercepted by the Libyan coastguard – […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says active mobile telephone lines in Nigeria have increased to 162 million. This figure is close to the nation’s population figure which is now put at 195 million. It said in its monthly Subscribers Operator Data posted on its website on Friday that the mobile lines figure was as at […]
President Buhari signs the executive order on preservation of assets seized in connection with corruption. President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja declared national emergency on corruption, warning that institutions, agencies and individuals must own the fight to reverse the negative culture of pilfering public funds, or risk plunging the country into turmoil. “Like I have […]