Hyacinth Chinweuba One of the children of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf, was, on Tuesday night, involved in a bike accident in Abuja, sustaining a head injury and had one of his limbs broken. According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday said Yusuf had undergone successful surgery and was in a stable condition. The statement read, “Yusuf Buhari had a bike accident last night around Gwarimpa in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. “He broke a limb and had an injury to the head as a…
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Yemisi Izuora/Hyacinth Chinweuba The opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised accusing fingers saying that the Federal Government of covering up massive frauds directly involving the All Progressives Congress (APC) interests. The PDP said that the APC and the Federal Government are yet to offer explanations for the current fuel scarcity and “their exposed attempt to pilfer $1bn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA)”. The Party therefore challenged the government to tell Nigerians the truth on its handling of fuel- related funds “particularly the circumstances surrounding the exposed diversion of funds in sleazy oil subsidy payouts” and “speak out…
Yemisi Izuora The Rivers state government and Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the distribution of gas to industries in the Greater Port Harcourt area and its environs. The signing of the MoU was announced in a statement in Port Harcourt by Mr Bamidele Odugbesan, Shell Nigeria Media Relations Manager. Mr Richard Hart, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, signed for the state government while SNG Managing Director, Mr Ed Ubong signed for the company Odugbesan said that the MoU set out broad terms and conditions to guide the two parties in…
Yemisi Izuora OyaOya has announced the pilot go live of its commodity trading marketplace on www.oyaoya.com to connect the commodity ecosystem across Nigeria and Africa. The OyaOya platform rides on cutting-edge technology to connect four essential components together in a seamless and efficient flow – a marketplace for vendors to present their products, customers to select a product, commodity transporters and an escrow payment system for secure transactions. Chief Executive Officer, OyaOya, Khalil Halilu announced the pilot run of the marketplace on www.oyaoya.com with 3,000+ registered vendors already saying that it opens Africa’s first Commodity on Demand hub leveraging technology to raise the…
Yemisi Izuora In continuation of his consultation with aviation stakeholders, the Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, Mr. Idris Yakubu, has visited key aviation regulators and stakeholders. Mr Yakubu’s first point of call was the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) where he met with the Director – General, Capt. Muhtar Usman. Capt. Usman expressed delight on the visit of the NAHCO MD and urged the Company to continue to abide by the rules. The Chief Regulator expressed satisfaction with the way NAHCO had been conducting business around the airports and hoped other operators would conduct their businesses…
Yemisi Izuora Air Peace airline has taken delivery of one of its newly acquired aircraft, a Boeing 737-300. The aircraft which was flown in by Capt. Ikechukwu Paul Ugochukwu and his team is the third Boeing 737 Air Peace has received this year alone. Management of the airline had taken delivery of two of its new Boeing 737 aircraft on February 21 and June 16 respectively. Air Peace recently acquired six Embraer 145, a couple of Boeing 737 and two Boeing 777 to bring its fleet size to 24 aircraft to drive its massive domestic, regional and international expansion project.…
Yemisi Izuora The Federal Government has concluded plans to install multi-million dollar Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at Lagos and Kano airports, to deal with cases of flight disruptions usually prompted by inclement weather. The tools are Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) and VHF omnidirectional range (VOR). The DME is a navigation beacon, usually coupled to enable aircraft to measure their position relative to that beacon. Aircraft send out signal, which is sent back after a fixed delay by the DME. The Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, said the agency recognises that apart from the adverse…
Yemisi Izuora Med-View Airline has commenced direct flight to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for Muslims performing lesser Hajj in the holy land. The flight which took off from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), the operational hub of the airline in Lagos is routed via Kaduna and Kano in the North West. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft conveying the passengers has a full load mostly Muslim Ummah traveling to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj. The flight which took off from Lagos was welcomed with a ceremonial water shower at Kaduna International Airport by the officials of the Airport Fire…
Yemisi Izuora The 2018 World Day of Peace as declared by Pope Francis is scheduled to hold on New Year Day January 1, 2018 with the theme: ‘Migrants and Refugees: Men and Women in search of Peace’ The World Peace Day is set aside annually by the Holy See to spread the gospel of peaceful co-existence amongst peoples of the world. Here in the Archdiocese of Lagos, the event will kick off with a Holy Mass at the Holy Cross Cathedral with the Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev Dr. Alfred Adewale Martins as the Chief Celebrant, to be assisted by…
Yemisi Izuora The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed readiness to partner with relevant bodies in its quest to ensure zero tolerance on infractions in Nigeria’s capital market and to ensure that perpetrators of fraudulent acts are brought to book. Acting Director General of SEC, Dr. Abdul Zubair stated this when the chairman and members of Investments and Securities Tribunal, IST, visited him in his office in Abuja. Zubair said the present management of SEC has zero tolerance on infractions adding that anyone that flouts the rules will be made to face the consequences of such actions. He told…