It is awful week of news in the airline industry. We saw a plane crash in Nepal, we saw a dog die in the overhead bin on a United Emirates flight, and now there’s another tragic story.The Daily Monitor in Uganda is reporting that an Emirates flight attendant jumped off a plane at Entebbe Airport […]
A new law approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) now permits operators other than the distribution companies to supply meters to electricity consumers in the country. Consequently, the electricity sector regulator said, a new class of operators in the power sector called Meter Asset Providers (MAPs) has been mandated to join in providing […]
Nigeria will begin cutting the sulphur levels allowed in imported fuels in July; a change long sought by health and environmental campaigners, a year after an initial deadline, an official from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said. West African nations had promised higher quality of fuels by July 2017 as part of a United […]
MTN Group Ltd. could cash in from an initial public offering of Africa’s largest telecommunication towers company by selling a stake valued by the wireless carrier at about 27 billion rand ($2.3 billion). IHS Towers, of which Johannesburg-based MTN owns about 29 percent, is planning an IPO in New York, people familiar with the matter […]
The United States is slated to become the world’s largest oil producer by the year 2023, according to the International Energy Association- IEA. The rising demand for oil, said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, has “unleashed a wave of growth from the U.S.” American crude production is expected to reach a record of 12.1 million […]
A female aviation security officer has foiled attempt by two Mozambique citizens to smuggle over 7.2 kilograms of methaphitamine and ephedrine out of the country through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. The AVSEC officer, Olupeju Oluwaseun detected the bag containing the illicit drugs with tag number SA2312119 at the baggage hall on Wednesday. This […]
By Foster Obi Following relentless desire to flee economic hardship and unemployment, most Nigerian youths trying to escape to Libya and Italy has been severally intercepted, maltreated and forcefully deported. This has not however deterred this army of youths in a tireless desire to break away from privation. On Saturday, the Libya’s coastguard and an […]
Federal Government has offered employment to 350 Niger Delta region ex-militants, who graduated from various tertiary institutions across the world. The Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, told State House correspondents in Abuja on Friday. Boroh, who is the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, said the affected ex-agitators had […]
Nigeria’s immigration service has launched an investigation after two of its staff members were arrested on suspicion of trying to traffic girls out of the country, it said on Friday. Thousands of girls are each year taken illegally out of Africa’s most populous country, where 70 percent of the 190 million inhabitants live on less […]