Nigeria plans to close the airport in the capital Abuja for six weeks from February to repair its badly damaged runway, the government said on Tuesday, after airlines threatened to stop flying there. Nigeria has delayed infrastructure investment for decades, … read more
Air passengers were yesterday stranded at airports across the country as domestic airlines ran short of aviation fuel to carry out scheduled flight operations. While most of the passengers were delayed for several hours before takeoff in Lagos, others in … read more
The Lagos State Government says it has created a website – www.lsmvaapvs.org, through which motorists and law enforcement agencies could confirm the authenticity of number plates issued by the State’s Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA). It said the move was … read more
Nearly a half million children will face starvation in northeastern Nigeria next year and 80 000 will die if they don’t get treatment in the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising, the UN Children’s Agency warned on Tuesday. … read more
Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram Islamists is increasingly bogged down as it confronts suicide attacks, looting and indiscriminate slaughter while the UN warns the affected region faces the “largest crisis in Africa”. In northern Borno state, the epicentre of … read more
Britain voted in a referendum on June 23 to leave the European Union. The outcome of the ‘leave’ vote no doubt has had, is having and will continue to have far-reaching consequences across key economies of the world. Capital, as … read more
Just two days after Professor Wole Soyinka reportedly tore his American green card, because his preferred candidate, Hilary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the last United State of America election, a Nigerian, Adebayo Ogunlesi has been named member of … read more
The body of a stowaway was, yesterday, found in the main wheel well of one of Arik Air’s A330-200 aircraft at the Oliver Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa. The airline confirmed the incident in a statement by its Communications … read more
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has hinted that engineers may be competent enough to be involved in pipeline vandalism at sea and asked the Nigerian Academy of Engineering to talk to their members working with foreign oil majors or government to … read more
Nigeria has the highest number of underage girls forced into early marriage with at least 49 percent of females married off before they turn 18, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF said in a statement late Tuesday … read more