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The federal government says it has reinstated Emirates Airlines winter schedule with immediate effect. Emirates is the largest airline and one of two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — the other is Etihad Airways. In December 2021, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) reduced Emirates Airlines’ […]

Timipre Sylva, the minister of petroleum resources, says Nigeria needs to move away from the petrol subsidy regime to end its ‘opaqueness’. Sylva added that Nigeria’s daily petrol consumption figures are ‘crazy’. The minister, who appeared on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Tuesday, noted that “there is nothing on the subsidy […]

All 126,720 retail investors who bought from the December 2021 public offer of MTN shares will get their share on February 18, 2021, TheCable has learnt. In December 2021, MTN had promised one free share for every 20 shares bought — with maximum free shares of 250 per investor. The company has […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says he does not think anyone is more qualified than him to be president in 2023. Wike said this on Tuesday in an interview with Channels Television. With just months to the 2023 presidential election, there have been speculations and permutations on who will become Nigeria’s next […]

The house of representatives has asked the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to pay the sum of N360 million to families of persons killed by its officers in Oyo and Katsina states.   The lower legislative chamber passed the resolution on Tuesday following the adoption of an investigative report presented by Leke Abejide, chairman […]

Nigeria recorded 159 cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. Here are five updates about the pandemic this Wednesday.  Denmark lifts all COVID restrictions despite spike in cases Denmark has lifted all it COVID restrictions. The country is now expected to reopen nightclubs, museums and theatres and scrap limited opening hours for bars […]

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, has asked the federal government to consider establishing a theatre command for the north-west region. El-Rufai spoke on Tuesday at the presentation of the state’s 2021 security report compiled by the ministry of internal security and home affairs. The report, presented by Samuel Aruwan, commissioner for internal […]

President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau says calm has returned to the country following an attack on the presidential palace.  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had described the attack as a coup attempt. “Calm returns to Bissau,” Embaló said in a post on his Facebook page. The post […]