Next Big Leap’: Netflix to Offer 41 New Shows to Lure Indian Viewers

MUMBAI, INDIA —  Netflix said on Wednesday it would release 41 shows and films in India this year, calling the move its “next big leap” in the world’s second-most populous nation where video streaming services have become more popular. India, with its 1.3 billion people, is a vast and valuable market for the U.S. streaming service and its rivals Amazon’s Prime Video and Walt Disney Co’s Disney+ Hotstar. The platforms, which are all offering an...

Post COVID-19 Template, Recipe For Sports’ Revival — Promoter

BENIN — Christopher Ojo, sports promoter and sponsor of the 10km Annual Owan Marathon Race, says design of a post-COVID-19 template is the needed recipe for sports revival in the country. Ojo, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Benin, said the template would include strategies for gradual recovery of sporting events from impact of the pandemic. He noted that due to the huge impact of the pandemic on sports...

MOMAN Says Dangote Refinery Will Be Extremely Beneficial to Nigeria

LAGOS —  The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) says the 650,000 BPD Dangote Refinery in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos will be extremely beneficial to Nigeria when it begins production. MOMAN however, advised the Federal Government against preventing marketers from importing refined petroleum products when the refinery and others come on stream in order to create an open market for the sector. Mr. Clement Isong, Executive Secretary, MOMAN, made this known while speaking with the...

Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria Decries Illegal Checkpoints In Southern Nigeria

As the ongoing nationwide strike by members of cattle dealers continues, the Northeast zonal Chairman Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria Northeast Alhaji Yahya Mohammed has appealed to members of the association to exercise patience with regard to the ongoing nationwide strike by the union. Mohammed, who made the plea in an interview with  The West African Pilot News, said the strike became imperative to register the union grievances to government over unlawful checkpoints mounted on...

No Fuel Price Increase in March – NNPC

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has debunked the report of any price increment in the Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) in the country in March 2021. The NNPC said this in a statement signed by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru on Sunday. Obateru added that the Corporation was not planning any raise in the price of the commodity in March in order not to jeopardize the ongoing engagement with...

DSS Invites Our Leaders for Blocking Food to South – Northern Traders

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) said its leaders have been invited by the Department of State Services for blocking the supply of foodstuffs and cattle from the North to the South. The General Secretary of the union, Ahmed Alaramma, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, adding that the President of the association, Mohammed Tahir, was currently with the DSS. The blockade of food to the...

NNPC Says No Plan to Increase Petrol Price, Cautions Against Panic Buying

ABUJA —  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has advised motorists to stop panic buying of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol saying it has no plan to increase the ex-depot price in March. NNPC disclosed in a statement by its spokesman, Dr. Kennie Obateru, in Abuja on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ex-depot price is the price at which depot owners sell products to marketers. The price determines...

Tricycle Riders Clashes With Police In Kano

KANO CITY — Youths suspected to be tricycle riders have clashed with police operatives at Gyadi-Gyadi court road in Kano city, Kano State. They were on strike to resist the N100 daily tax enforced by the state government through the Kano State Roads and Traffic Agency (KAROTA) among other issues. The riders said the action becomes necessary to avert what they described as extortion in the name of tax and other fines. The police had...

Poultry Farmers In Jos Decries Hike In Feeds

JOS — Poultry farmers in Jos, Plateau state have decried the hike in feeds and other consumables. Some farmers, who spoke to newsmen in Jos, said the situation may send many of them out of business because they could not bear the rising cost of the feeds. Okopi Sule, a poultry farmer, said that input had become outrageously high and income from the business becoming extremely low. “Many farmers could no longer break even in...

Pilgrimage With Ease, Hajj Savings Scheme Launch In Adamawa

Respite has come for Muslim low-income earners to have access and perform Hajj pilgrimage with ease being one of the pillars of Islam as the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has introduced a scheme “Hajj Savings Scheme”, a deliberate move to reduce difficulty in paying hajj fare by the category of such persons. At the launch of the scheme in Yola, the Adamawa State capital held at Nyako Center in the State Secretariat, the...

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