By Foster Obi Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced the successful berthing of the biggest Container vessel to ever call at any Nigerian port. A statement signed by Jatto A Adams, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications said that the MaersklineStardelhorn vessel with Length overall of 300 metres, width of 48 metres was received at […]
Jurgen Klopp has been named Premier League manager of the season after guiding the club to their first league title in three decades. The 53-year-old German beat Chelsea’s Frank Lampard, Leicester City’s Brendan Rodgers, who Klopp replaced at Liverpool in 2015, and Sheffield United’s Chris Wilder. Liverpool coasted to the title, they narrowly lost out […]
Nigerian authorities have raided a Chinese steel company in the southeastern Abia state over “potentially illegal treatment and working conditions” for employees, local media reported on Friday. According to Politics Nigeria, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) carried out the raid on Thursday after reports of substandard conditions surfaced in the media. “The […]
Some angry youths in the late hours of Friday shut down the Afam power station belonging to the Transmission Company of Nigeria resulting in a total blackout in Rivers State. Mrs Chioma Aninwe, the acting Manager, Corporate Communications, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt […]
The UN said on Friday that humanitarian needs in Nigeria’s northeastern region wrecked by over a decade of terror attacks have hit record high. In a statement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said more than 10.6 million people will be needing some form of humanitarian assistance in 2020, close to 50 […]
One hundred and seventy Nigerians have returned from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, taking the number of evacuees from the Arab nation to over 3,000. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) disclosed this in a tweet via its official handle on Friday. It explained that the evacuees arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos […]
By Foster Obi International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday released new data indicating that the impact of COVID-19 on Africa’s aviation industry and economies has worsened sharply since the previous assessment in April. IATA said that Job losses in aviation and related industries could increase by up to 3.5 million. That is more than half […]
The National Information Technology Development Agency on Thursday put the number of Nigerian children forced out of school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic at 46 million. NITDA’s Director-General, Kashifu Inuwa, disclosed this while speaking during a stakeholders meet-up and hangout webinar organised by his agency. He also noted that as a of Thursday […]
More than a quarter of Nigeria’s workers were out of a job in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday, in the country’s first unemployment data published since 2018. The unemployment rate stood at 27.1% in the second quarter. It was 23.1% in the previous report, which dates back to the […]
The OPEC+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee has pushed back its next online meeting by a day to Aug. 19, due to a request from Russia, according to officials. The committee, co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and Russia, meets monthly and is tasked with adjudicating compliance with OPEC+ production quotas and analyzing market conditions. It can make […]