As European and American skies remain busy and African skies are empty occasioned by poor connectivity among nations on the continent, WOLE SHADARE highlights the consequences of this to a continent that is rich in potential, but oblivious of how to harness Potential Africans make up 12 per cent of the world’s population, but […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had another chance, last Tuesday, to prove its commitment to the downstream sub-sector. That day, the Corporation took its decision to fix the Port Harcourt refinery from mere plan to project as it signed off on the $1.5 billion contract to repair the facility with the […]
As schools in Nigeria embark on their second term holidays, parents and guardians have expressed their feelings on having their children back home for weeks after the lockdown. DEBORAH OCHENI reports. The second term holiday is the longest holiday pupils have enjoyed since the compulsory COVID-19 lockdown, while some parents are happy to have […]
Nigeria has lost N99 billion to subsidy on premium motor spirit (PMS) also known as petrol in the first 11 days of April, 2021. Data from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) sighted by New Telegraph at the weekend, which showed this, added that the landing cost for PMS rallied at N234 per litre in […]
Nigerian investment climate has manifested in the declining shares of a leading foreign investor in the cement sector, Lafarge Africa. In the past one year, local players in the cement sector have recorded reasonable profit while Lafarge managed to scrap together a yearly income of less than N30 billion. Acording to its financial statement […]
Taiwo Hassan with agency reports Global food commodity prices rose in the month of March, marking their 10th consecutive monthly increase, with quotations for vegetable oils and dairy products leading the rise, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has reported. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in […]
African airlines’ traffic dropped 68.0 per cent in February compared to February two years ago. T his has been described as a setback compared to a 66.1 per cent decline recorded in January compared to January 2019. Consequently, February capacity contracted 54.6 per cent versus February 2019, and load factor fell 20.5 percentage points […]
Commissioner/Chief Executive Officer of the Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N), Akin Olateru, an aircraft engineer, has listed professionalism, cooperation, diligence as some of the criteria or essential tools needed to achieve the agency’s mandate of investigating aircraft accidents and serious incidents. Olateru stated this while seeking more support from workers to continue to deliver […]
Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PSHAN) has appointed Dr. Tinuola Akinbolagbe as its chief executive officer. Akinbolagbe took over from outgoing interim CEO, Mr. Sonny Nwarisi, who was seconded to PSHAN by Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 2019. She would lead the PSHAN team to actively engage private sector players to take bold, positive steps […]
French lawmakers have moved to ban short-haul internal flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. Over the weekend, lawmakers voted in favour of a bill to end routes where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours. Connecting flights will not be affected, however, reports […]