An impeccable source said the incident happened on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and skidded into the nearby bush.Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were immediately deployed to the scene. But there was no death…
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state on Friday, January 26, said he has no plans to dump the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on whose platform he won the governorship polls.Yusuf was responding to an invite by the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to join the APC. Governor…
An Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court has sentenced Feyi Daniels, founder of “I Reign Christian Ministry”, to life imprisonment for “raping a church member.”The trial judge, Rahman Oshodi, on Friday, January 26, found the cleric guilty of rape and sexual assault of a female worshipper. Daniels was arraigned by the Lagos state government…
The accident occurred around 2 a.m. On Wednesday, from Yamoussoukro to Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city and commercial centre, where most media are staying to cover the soccer tournament. The bus driver and his assistant were the most seriously injured from the impact to the front of the bus. They were taken to a hospital…
Oil marketers under the aegis of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria have berated the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited for alleged delay in the supply of petroleum products. As a result, the marketers said they had been forced to boycott the NNPCL to source fuel from private depot owners at a higher cost….
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited and the Ministry of Finance have agreed to remit all their dollar revenues to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to boost the nation’s External Reserves and foreign exchange flows into the country. The apex bank’s governor, Olayemi Cardoso, disclosed this during his keynote speech at the launching of…
Shipowners have partnered with the Nigerian National Petroluem Corporation Limited to boost ship acquisition in the country. This was contained in a statement on Tuesday after a meeting between the shipowners and NNPCL in Lagos hosted by the Nigerian Chamber of Shipping. The Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company, Shipping, Mr Panos Gliatis, suggested…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has constructed a 150 million litres storage facility for the Port Harcourt Refining Company ahead of full operations of the plants, the company stated on Wednesday. It said the storage facility was constructed in Atlas Cove, adding that the company had signed Build, Operate and Transfer agreements for the…
Qatar has rebuked Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he allegedly criticised the Gulf country’s role as a mediator in the Gaza war as “problematic” in a leaked recording. At a meeting this week with the families of captives being held in Gaza, Netanyahu blamed Qatar for financing Hamas and said he was upset at…
