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The pilot informed the more than 200 passengers on board that the Lagos airport was closed, thus the Lufthansa flight LH566 from Frankfurt to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos was diverted to Cotonou, Togo, and eventually Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.Acco ....
Yesterday, a few commercial banks started issuing old N500 and N1000 bills to the general population.The action was taken in response to a Supreme Court decision that extended the expiration date of the banknotes to December 31, 2023.Another event is that the Central Bank of Nigeria ....
Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the embattled majority leader of the House of Representatives, was granted bail by the Federal High Court in Kano, presided over by Judge Muhammad Nasir Yunus, on Monday afternoon in the amount of N500 million and two trustworthy sureties in the same amount.Doguwa is o ....
Ifeanyi Odoh, the All Progressive Grand Alliance's (APGA) candidate for governor, has been branded a wanted person by the police in Ebonyi State.On Monday, Odoh and nine other people were listed as wanted in connection with the murder of Igbokwe Ewa, a monarch.Last Monday, un ....
According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 85 deaths from Lassa fever occurred in Nigeria in the first six weeks of 2023 across 20 states and 79 Local Government Areas, or LGAs (NCDC).The agency revealed this in the Lassa Fever Situation Report Epi We ....
Authorities reported on Sunday that three suspects had been detained in connection with the killing of a Filipino province governor and eight other persons, and that a fourth suspect had been killed in a shootout.In the brazen assault that took place on Saturday in the Philippines' center ....
According to data from the Stanbic IBTC Bank's February Purchasing Managers' Index, the private sector may have suffered midway through the first quarter of the year as a result of the nationwide cash shortage in February.You may remember that Nigerians experienced a fuel and naira shortag ....
The Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos, is where the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) apprehended businessman Kingsley Celestino with about 9.40 kilograms of heroin allegedly hidden in false bottoms of his two travel bags.This was said in a statement ....
With his team's 4-2 victory over Nantes at home, Kylian Mbappe has passed Zinedine Zidane to become Paris St. Germain's all-time leading scorer.The 24-year-old Mbappe improved the record he shared with Edinson Cavani on Saturday by scoring his 201st goal in all competitions w ....
About half of the $12 billion that the World Bank gave out to help the recipient countries deal with food shortages went to Africa.In a recent report titled "Food Security Update | World Bank Response to Increasing Food Insecurity," the bank stated that domestic food costs re ....