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July 16, 2022 No Responses

Rep Lauds Air Peace On Direct Flights To China

The House of Representatives has commended Air Peace on the commencement of direct flight between Nigeria and China. Air Peace on Wednesday announced its official commencement of flight operations into Guangzhou-China, becoming the first Nigerian airline to fly into the...

July 16, 2022 No Responses

NIWA, Bangladesh Collaborate On Waterways

National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and the Republic of Bangladesh have agreed to collaborate to enhance activities in the waterways of Nigeria and Bangladesh. Dr George Moghalu, the Managing Director of NIWA said this when the Ambassador of Bangl...

July 16, 2022 No Responses

Customs Deactivate Five Star Logistics Over N97.3m Debt

The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) on Friday said that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) had deactivated the Five Star Logistics Ltd terminal from its portal. The acting president of ANLCA, Dr Kayode Farinto, confirmed the developmen...

July 16, 2022 No Responses

SON Management Team Visits NCS, Seeks Closer Collaboration

The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has sought closer collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the fight against the importation of substandard products in the country. SON Director-General, Malam Farouk Salim, made the request when...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

Kaduna Spends N158.1b On Education In Five Years

The Kaduna State Government has spent a total of N158.1 billion out of the N225.1 billion budgeted for the education sector between 2017 and 2021, the sector budget trend analysis has shown. The analysis, indicating a 70.2 per cent performance,...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

World’s First Electric Fast Ferry Debuts

MS Medstraum, the world’s first fully electric and zero-emission fast ferry classed as a high-speed craft, has embarked on the journey from the Norwegian Fjellstrand shipyard to its new home port, Stavanger. The ferry has been built using modular ...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

My Journey Through NPA, NIWA, By New Transportation Minister

The newly appointed Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has described the Ministry as home, having started his career in the Maritime sector as a Civil Engineer with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and ended up as the Lagos Area ...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

Oil Theft: NIMASA To Deploy Special Mission Aircraft

Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has given assurances that two special mission aircrafts in the deep blue project fleet of the agency will be deployed to fight oil theft and protect...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

UBA Photo News

L-R: United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group Head, Commercial and Corporate Banking, Mr. Muyiwa Akinyemi; Executive Director, Treasury and International Banking, Mr. Ndubisi Chiugo; Chief Executive Officer, Dubai International Financial Centre(DIFC) ...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

As IoT Beckons, Pantami Assures Of Proactive Regulation

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, on Thursday in Lagos, assured the nation that Nigeria’s telecom regulatory framework has been designed to address the challenges that may arrive with the advancement of the Internet o...

July 15, 2022 No Responses

Emirates Refuses Heathrow’s Demand To Cut Flights

Emirates has rejected Heathrow Airport’s demands for airlines to stop selling summer tickets, calling the move “unreasonable and unacceptable”. The airline accused the airport of having a “blatant disregard” for customers after it...

July 14, 2022 No Responses

Lufthansa Cancels 2,000 More Flights

German carrier Lufthansa is cancelling another 2,000 flights between now and the end of August due to staff shortage, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. These targeted cancellations are at Lufthansa’s Frankfurt and Munich hubs. The company sa...

July 14, 2022 No Responses

New Transportation Ministers Assume Office, Pledge Optimum Performance

The new Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo has pledged to give his best towards achieving President Muhammadu Buhari’s Infrastructure Development Agenda in the transport sector. Sambo said this during the handover ceremony by the former Minister...

July 14, 2022 No Responses

Air Peace Commences Flight Operations To China

Air Peace has commenced operations into Guangzhou-China, becoming the first Nigerian airline to fly into the Asian country once every week. Chief Operating Officer, Air Peace, Oluwatoyin Olajide, disclosed this at the airline’s inaugural flight to the ...