The Airline Operators of Nigeria says flight operations in Nigeria will be suspended beginning Monday next week due to skyrocketing prices of aviation fuel. This is contained in a statement signed by the President of the Airline Operators of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdulmunaf Yunusa, and 9 other operators. According to the Airline operators, they cannot continue to deploy and subsidize their services at the expense of their business. They urged travelers to make alternative arrangements, as...
JOS — The University of Jos chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has launched a bottled water and beverage factory in Jos. The University of Jos Academic Staff Cooperative Investment company Limited (UJASCICL) bottled water and beverage factory located at Dong community of Jos North Local Government Area of the state was commissioned by ASUU National President, Prof. Victor Osodeke on Thursday. Speaking at the commissioning, Dr Lazarus Maigoro, chairman of the...
Celebrity barman, Cubana Chief Priest, claims that he’s making efforts alongside some other billionaires from the Eastern part of Nigeria to buy Twitter from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. Cubana took to his Twitter page to state that he will team up with Obi Cubana and E-Money and other billionaire friends from Southeast to acquire Twitter from Musk at a higher price of $70 billion. “We are making progress on submitting our offer to...
ABUJA — The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved 1,843 phone brands for the Nigerian market. The new approvals represent a total increase of 351, from the 1,492 phones approved in 2020 by the regulator. The telecommunications regulator disclosed this in its ‘Type Approval’ regulation published on Tuesday. “The mobile handsets approved have been tested and found to meet the applicable Type Approval standards required to allow them to be sold to consumers and operated...
Trade volume between Indonesia and Nigeria reached 2.46 billion dollars between 2016 and 2021, says Amb. Usra Harahap, Ambassador of Indonesia to Nigeria. Harahap said this on Tuesday in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen, when he said about 25 Indonesian companies had invested in Nigeria. He said trade between the two countries kept increasing in the last six years. “In 2016 it reached 1.59 billion dollars and in 2021 it increased to 2.46 billion...
Twitter on Monday confirmed it is selling the platform to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk in a deal valued at $44 billion. The sale was a dramatic shift for the board, which had originally maneuvered to block Musk from taking the social media network private. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a joint...
The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn takeover offer from the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the company announced on Monday. Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had “tremendous potential” that he would unlock. Mr. Musk’s offer came after frequent complaints about claims of content censorship and lack of free speech on the site. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday disclosed in its report that the average retail price of cooking gas increased by 83.62 per cent from N2057.71 in March 2021. The March 2022 report also revealed the average price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) stood at N3778.30 in March 2022 from N3708.58 recorded in February 2022 showing an increase of 1.88 per cent month-on-month. According to state profile analysis,...
LAGOS — Google, on Thursday, unveiled plans to go for the heart of Nigeria’s Internet market with its Equiano submarine cable. Google landed the cable with its partner, WIOCC, a prominent African digital backbone company in Lagos yesterday. The state-of-the-art Equiano subsea cable, which will become a critical element in meeting Nigeria’s current and future international connectivity demands, according to Google, would reduce the retail cost of Internet prices by 21 per cent after its...
Nollywood actor, Williams Uchemba has decried the high rate of fake products in the country. Uchemba took to his Instastory to lament on Friday, stating that the number of fake products in the country are more than the original products. He added that it is painful that some vendors still sell counterfeit products at the price of the original. The father of one suggested that vendors should have both fake and original products so that...
