Monday, 23 December, 2024

Month: August 2022


The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked the broadcast licenses of 52 broadcast stations across the country over-indebtedness to the regulatory commission. The stations were owing the Commission N2.6 billion since 2015. The debtor-stations include; Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Read more…


The International Air Transport Association (IATA), has said that unless Nigeria release $464million revenue due to foreign airlines and trapped in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), more airlines may suspend operations into Nigeria. In a statement issued on Friday, Read more…


Fresh facts have emerged on why the Academic Staff Union of Universities rejected the proposal by the Federal Government. Recall that ASUU had tagged the offer by the Federal Government as “miserable”. However, the union did not go into some Read more…


Gambia wants to update its international image and attract “quality tourists,” instead of European women of a certain age looking to have sex with younger men, said Abubacarr Camara, director of the Gambia Tourism Board, as quoted by The Telegraph Read more…


Snipers from Russia and other countries hostile to the United States are competing in war games being held this week in Venezuela in events described as Olympic games for soldiers that were organized not only to show that Moscow still Read more…


Russia has charged up to third place in a list of countries outside mainland China using the yuan for global payments, highlighting how it is being affected by Western sanctions. Russia had not even been on the monthly list published Read more…


Three Mig-31 supersonic interceptor aircraft carrying Kinzhal air-to-surface hypersonic missiles have been deployed to Russia’s western exclave of Kaliningrad, the country’s Defense Ministry has announced. On Thursday, the planes were relocated to Chkalovsk airfield in Kaliningrad Region as part of Read more…


The Chinese envoy to the United Kingdom has warned that British and American interference on Taiwan could result in a war, claiming that Beijing’s ties with London are now at a crossroads over the island. In a Guardian op-ed on Read more…


Lawyers practicing in Anambra State have warned the Federal Government against the consequences of disobeying the recent United Nations’ (UN) demand to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from the detention. UN had recently Read more…


Seplat Energy Plc, has kicked off the third edition of its Seplat Teachers Empowerment Programme (STEP) by  empowering a total of 300 teachers from both Edo and Delta states. The STEP initiative launched in 2022 seeks to promote teacher’s creative Read more…


A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja coram Honourable Justice A. R. Mohammed sitting as a vacation judge has declined to grant the interim order sought by the suspended General Secretary, Mrs Joyce Oduah seeking inter alia to restrain the Read more…


The Edo State Police Command late Wednesday night announced that it bursted a ritual shrine in a building along Asoro slope, off Ekenhua Road, Uzebu Quarters, in Benin City, recovering 20 mummified bodies. The Command also said it arrested three Read more…