MOSCOW – Russia’s aviation agency said Tuesday wreckage had been found in the Kamchatka region in the far eastern portion of the country after a plane with 28 people on board went missing. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the Antonov An-26 plane that was on its way from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky […]
Dr Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Environment, on Monday, disclosed that Nigeria recorded 4,919 oil spills between 2015 to March 2021 and lost 4.5 trillion barrels of oil to theft in four years. Abubakar disclosed this at a Town Hall meeting in Abuja, organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture, on protecting oil […]
Vauxhall owner Stellantis has announced plans to build electric vans at its Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire. The £100m investment, which the UK government will contribute to, will safeguard more than 1,000 factory jobs.The future of the plant has been in doubt after Vauxhall’s parent company scrapped plans to build its new Astra […]
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two (MMA2) will on July 21, start enforcing passenger facilitation policy at the airport. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Mikail Mumuni, Group Corporate Affairs Manager of BASL in Lagos. The company said that the rules are aimed […]
Omo Ghetto, a comedy film produced by Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele-Bello a.k.a Jenifa, became the first Nollywood film to cross N500 million in Nigerian box office, according to the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN). CLEAN said that such feat from Omo Ghetto pushed it over Kemi Adetiba’s 2016 comedy movie, ‘The Wedding […]
In 2004, Jeff Bezos and his technical adviser Colin Bryar drove together to the city of Tacoma, an hour south of Seattle in Washington State. At that time Amazon was a multi-billion dollar company. However they were headed to Amazon’s customer services centre – where they were to spend two days as customer […]
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration congratulated itself this week on what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called a historic piece of “economic diplomacy,” after 130 countries representing 90% of global GDP agreed in principle on a global minimum tax rate on corporations. The agreement, whose signatories included China, Russia, India, and every member of […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit, asking the court “to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose spending details of the overdrafts and loans obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since May 29, 2015 including the projects on which the overdrafts have been spent, and repayments of […]
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican says Pope Francis has gone to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the large intestine. The brief announcement Sunday afternoon didn’t say when the surgery would be performed but it said there would be announcement when the surgery is complete. Just three […]