Anietie Udobit,AbujaThe Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said that a female passenger who caused a major disruption on an Abuja-bound Ibom Air flight would be prosecuted.In a statement on Monday, the NCAA’s Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, revealed that the passenger, whose identity remains undisclosed,
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Uchechukwu Okoroafor, AbujaThe Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has recently claimed significant progress in resuscitating the long-neglected Port Harcourt and Warri refineries, boasting that the facilities are now operating at various productivity levels.This development, if accurate, represents a significant milestone in Nigeria's quest for energy self-sufficiency and economic revitalization.However,
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaGovernor Umo Eno has celebrated Akwa Ibom-born gospel minister Pastor Nathaniel Bassey over the invitation extended to him by the United States (US) government to minister at President-elect Donald Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast on January 20, 2025.Speaking through his chief press secretary (CPS), Mr Ekerete Udoh, yesterday,
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Aircraft engineers and technicians of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have reactivated a Dornier DO-228 aircraft that had been grounded for 23 years. A statement by the NAF spokesman, Air Vice Marshal Olusola Akinboyewa, announcing the achievement underscores NAF’s growing capacity for indigenous maintenance to bolster its operational readiness whilst contributing
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Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has appointed Abubakar Bununu, Prof. Simon Yalams, and Usman Danturaki as special advisers barely 24 hours after they were sacked as commissioners.Bununu, Yalams, and Danturaki were among the five commissioners the governor sacked yesterday. They were former commissioners of security and internal affairs, agriculture,
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The Kogi State government has compensated victims of the GSM village fire that occurred in the Paparanda Kpata area of Lokoja, the state capital.The deputy governor, Joel Salifu Oyibo, presented the cheques to the affected victims and said that the compensation payment was a testament to the Governor Ododo administration’s commitment to
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Okoro I., EnuguThe founder and leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Barr. Ralph Uwazuruike, has described the Igbo political leadership as selfish and parochial. The MASSOB leader stressed that the Igbo stakeholders are only interested in their selfish interests and personal pockets. Barr. Uwazuruike revealed
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaNo fewer than 5,200 women spread across the 44 local government areas of Kano State were given N50,000 each by Governor Abba Yusuf.At an event in the Government House yesterday, Governor Yusuf said the women selected from the 484 wards of the local governments were empowered to be
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Anietie Udobit,AbujaThe Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its commission, distributed assorted relief materials to the victims of the 2024 flood disasters across affected communities in Bauchi State yesterday. About 16 local government areas in Bauchi have recorded one or more incidents of flood disasters in 2024, leading to
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaThe Federal Government has approved a tariff hike for telecommunications services in Nigeria, assuring that the increment will not reach the 100% requested by operators.Dr. Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, disclosed this during a stakeholders’ meeting with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Abuja.Dr.
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