The minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has announced a replacement for the managing director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Capt Rabiu Yadudu, whose tenure has expired. Sirika replaced Yadudu with Kabir Yusuf Mohammed after the expiration ...
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Business activities at the nation’s seaports have slowed down since the first quarter of the year as importers are waiting for the handover to the new government before making major business decisions. The controversial naira redesign policy of the Central ...
Read More »‘Berthing Of Largest Vessel At Tin-Can Port Will Bring Economic Benefits To Nigeria’
The Tincan Island Container Terminal Ltd (TICT), on Sunday, said the successful berthing of MSC MAUREEN — the largest containership ever to berth at Lagos ports is a great acheivement that will bring significant economic benefits to Nigeria. LEADERSHIP reports ...
Read More »FG Collaborates With Turkey To Drive Automobile Sector
The Federal Government is collaborating with a major Automotive manufacturing hub in Turkey to drive Nigeria’s automobile sector. The Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development Council, Jelani Aliyu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on ...
Read More »Nigerian Navy To Reduce High Insurance Premium On Ships – CNS
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Awwal Gambo, says the Nigerian Navy (NN) has redoubled its effort to reduce high insurance premium for ships in Nigeria-controlled waters. Awwal said this on Monday while he was inaugurating several projects ...
Read More »Akure Airport To Metamorphose Into First Aerotropolis In Sub-Sahara Africa – Investor
The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in conjunction with a private company, Ala Resort Ltd., has concluded arrangements to turn the Akure Airport to an aerotropolis. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the resort, Mr Moyosola Niran-Oladunni, stated this ...
Read More »Sudan: Max Air Joins Other Airlines To Evacuate Nigerians From Egypt
Max Air airline has joined Nigerian Air-force, Air Peace and Azman air in airlifting stranded Nigerians being evacuated from Sudan to Egypt. In a statement issued on Thursday via its official Instagram handle, the airline will send out its Boeing ...
Read More »Clergymen, 1 Other Killed In Auto Crash
Four persons, including three clergymen have reportedly died in a auto crash in Ekiti state. The accident, it was gathered, occurred Monday afternoon along Otun–Iro Ekiti road in Moba Local Government Area of the State. Five other person were said to ...
Read More »Bus Evacuating Nigerian Students From Sudan Catches Fire
A bus conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, caught fire in the early hours of Monday. “One of the buses conveying some 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with a tag number (Katsina 1) heading to Port Sudan as ...
Read More »CSOs Beg Rich Nigerians To Send Private Jets To Sudan
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have called on the country’s wealthy citizens to send their private jets to Sudan to help evacuate stranded Nigerians, particularly students, from that war-torn country and bring them back home. LEADERSHIP Weekend reports that, ...
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