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Emirates Airlines will resume its passenger operations between Dubai and Nigeria on 5th December 2021. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier made this known via a statement issued on Thursday. The resumption of services comes 10 months after the carrier suspended flights to Nigeria after a diplomatic row between the two countries over COVID-19 protocols. […]

Seven years after her fourth child was born and with a decision jointly made with her husband to stop childbearing, 37-year-old Muslimat AbdulWaheed has again been delivered of quadruplets. The couple who reside in Gwako, a suburb of Gwagwalada area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, said they could barely feed their family of six, […]

President Buhari has departed Abuja for Dubai where he is expected to attend the Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. The Expo 2020 Dubai is aimed at creating an environment for Nigerians to join over 190 countries to forge true and meaningful partnerships. According to a statement by the president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina on […]

Award-winning Nigerian singer, Davido, has revealed that his father, Adedeji Adeleke, sent the Police after him when he left school for music. The singer made this revelation during an interview with an American-based podcast, Earn Your Leisure, which was published on Wednesday. Davido stated that while his dad thought he was at school, he was actually […]

A US judge sentenced Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to three years in prison Tuesday on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. The sentence was less than the relatively light four years requested by prosecutors, with the judge acknowledging that Coronel was only a teenager when […]

MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has announced the price of its initial public offering to retail investors. The company is making 575 million of its shares available to the public at N169 per unit, the telecoms heavyweight said on Tuesday. Sales will open at 8:00 am on December 1 and close at 5:00 pm on December […]

MultiChoice Nigeria has announced a discount bundle offer ahead of the festive season for new customers to get access to its wide range of entertainment on their DStv and GOtvplatforms.  The company said it will be offering the DStv HD decoder for a discount fee of N13,900 with a dish kit and a one-month DStv Compact package, while the GOtv decoder will go for N7,900 with a GOtenna and a one-month GOtv Max package. This festive offer will be […]

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has suspended the 2021 edition of the Calabar carnival due to insecurity and the outbreak of Omicron COVID-19 variant. Linus Obogo, the Deputy Chief Press Secretary to Mr Ayade, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Calabar. Mr Obogo told NAN that […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission says it is set for the second trial of 5G in Nigeria. According to the commission, the trial which is scheduled to hold on Thursday is necessary in order to validate the national policy on 5G for the digital economy. The commission added that the supervised trial would be conducted by […]

Despite the Federal Government’s lifting of the suspension on Emirates flights to Nigeria, the airline has announced that Nigerian flights are still on hold. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, had on Friday announced that the ban on Emirates flights to Nigeria had been lifted following the decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to remove […]

As yuletide approaches, airline passengers are facing hard times over the skyrocketing cost of tickets, findings by Daily Trust have revealed.  Checks by Daily Trust correspondents showed that ticket prices have doubled on all the domestic routes, as well as some international destinations ahead of the Christmas and New Year holiday bookings.  But for the December booking, any […]

Former WBA heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has dropped to fifth in the latest World Boxing Association rankings. Joshua lost his belts to Ukrainian heavyweight newcomer, Oleksandr Usyk in September. However, they have both agreed to a rematch billed for 2022. Reports indicate that Usyk’s dominance in the fight and how the former champion performed, may […]

Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has urged Nigerian leaders to value the interest of every section of the country in order to build a united nation devoid of agitation, disunity and disenchantment. Speaking when he led members of the 1981 set of the University of Port Harcourt alumni Association on visit to the king of Opume […]

Mallam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammad Buhari on Media and Publicity, says the president deserves credit over his efforts in tackling the farmers/herders crisis in the country. Shehu disclosed this on Friday while presenting a paper, tagged ‘Fake news: Challenges of information management’, at the 10th year anniversary of the Federal […]

The Federal Government has lifted the ban imposed on Emirates Airline. Minister of Aviation, Senator. Hadi Sirika, said the ban was lifted after “painstaking negotiations” with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Emirate’s home country. Nigeria had barred Emirates flights over discriminatory policy on Nigerians as regards to COVID-19 protocols by the UAE. Briefing journalists late […]

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said there is a need for the country to embark on short-term restructuring before the general elections in 2023 to address some of the challenges facing the nation. Jega stated this at the 2021 public lecture he delivered at the Achievers University, […]

The National leadership of the Apex Igbo social-cultural Organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has sent a congratulatory message to the newly elected President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo UK and Ireland, Chief Lady Aqueen Ibeto. Stepping into the culturally reserved enclave of men, Aqueen Ibeto made history, became the very first Igbo woman to be entrusted with the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has renewed charges to all security agencies to double down on their response to all those challenging Nigeria’s sovereignty and creating insecurity through criminality in whatever way. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this after a Security Council meeting presided by President Buhari on Thursday at the Aso Villa in Abuja. […]