The new Toyota Avalon 2019 was launched yesterday at the Toyota Showroom in Sitra. The launch ceremony was hosted by Ebrahim Khalil Kanoo, the exclusive distributors of Toyota and Lexus in Bahrain, and attended by Ebrahim K Kanoo director Khaled Kanoo and senior general manager for sales Ismail Akbar. The two new models, XLE and […]
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‘Ford’s decision to eliminate passenger cars for pickups and SUVs working ‘
Ford reported August US sales on Tuesday, and although the market has been weakening compared with 2017, the automaker’s tally was up about 4% versus a year ago. The story was all about pickup trucks and SUVs, vindicating a decision that Ford, under CEO Jim Hackett, made earlier this year to reduce its future passenger-car […]
Dana Air Acquires Boeing 737-700 As Part of its fleet
Nigerian carrier Dana Air has added a Boeing 737-700 aircraft to its fleet to operate its “early bird” flights between Lagos and Abuja. The airline’s Media and Communications Manager, Mr Kingsley Ezenwa, who confirmed the development on Tuesday in Lagos, said its “early bird’’ flights from Abuja to Lagos would commence on Sept. 10. “We […]
British Airways Stewardess Suspended Over Striptease Video – Reports
A flight attendant working for one of Britain’s top airlines suffered a blow to her career over one peculiar video and a possible attempt to boost her income. British Airways management has grounded one of the company’s cabin crew members after becoming aware of a striptease video made by her. In the video obtained by […]
2018 Toyota Sienna Comes up Short in Crash Testing
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or IIHS, has released results from its latest round of passenger-side small overlap front crash testing. Out of the three minivans tested, the Toyota Sienna performed the worst in the new trial. According to the IIHS, Toyota made changes to the driver side in 2015 to improve protection but […]
NAGAFF Threatens to Blacklist Shipping Companies in Nigeria
– Alerts on systems breakdown in ports management and administration By Foster Obi National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) says it may likely to blacklist some shipping companies “from undertaking their clients Nigeria bound cargoes. According to a press statement signed by Emma Agubanze, Head Special Duty, NAGAFF Headquarters, “Those that may face […]
NPA MD Tasks Pilotage Board Members on Appointment Mandates
By Foster Obi The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) HadizaBala Usman has charged members of the newly inaugurated pilotage boards to see their appointments as a “call to serve the nation selflessly. She implored the appointees to use their high professional skills and knowledge to improve pilotage services in the nation’s seaports within the […]
Hyundai cars to have ‘separate sound zones’
Hyundai Motor Group unveiled its “separate sound zone control system,” Sunday, via its blog and on YouTube. The system allows each occupant in a car to listen to different music without disrupting others. Hyundai is the world’s first carmaker to develop such a system. “This system is necessary for autonomous driving, because passengers want more […]
Ethiopian Airlines front-runner in tender for planned Nigerian airline-CEO
Ethiopian Airlines is the frontrunner to set up and manage a new national carrier for Nigeria, its chief executive said on Friday. “We are among a small group with an interest in establishing a national carrier (in Nigeria)…we do not know the results (of the tender), though we are frontrunners,” Chief Executive Tewolde Gebremariam told […]
Apapa gridlock: Importers want Eastern ports open for cargoes
Some importers on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to open up the seaports in the Eastern flank of the country to decongest ports in Lagos. The importers said that the designation of the Calabar, Port Harcourt and Warri ports for cargo transaction would bring the perennial traffic at the Apapa Ports to an end. […]