A daily record of operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed the corporation’s plans to sustain the petrol pump price crash it started last week with a healthy build-up of stocks.
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AMBODE INAUGURATES PEN CINEMA FLYOVER & BRIDGE RAMP: TO BE COMPLETED DECEMBER 2018
One week after he formally inaugurated the reconstruction of 10-lane Oshodi-Airport road, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, at the weekend unveiled Pen Cinema flyover and bridge ramp designed to unlock gridlock at the Agege-Iju-Pen-Cinema axis.
Continue reading »ARIK SHAREHOLDERS FILE N20BN SUIT AGAINST FG, ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES
Shareholders of Arik Air Limited have filed a N20 billion suit against the federal government and Ethiopian Airlines over recent stories in the media that they were in negotiations on the takeover of the airline.
Continue reading »FG APPROVES CONCESSION OF LAGOS, ABUJA AIRPORTS
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President, says the Federal Executive Council has agreed to concession the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
Continue reading »CUSTOMS SERVICE INTERCEPT 1,100 SMUGGLED RIFLES AT TIN-CAN ISLAND (PICTURES)
The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 1,100 rifles which were imported into the country from Turkey under false declaration.
Continue reading »YOU CAN NOW RENEW YOU DRIVER’S LICENCE WITHOUT GOING FOR CAPTURING – FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has just confirmed that you can now renew your driver’s licence without going through the tedious capturing and biometrics.
Continue reading »FLORIDA, GEORGIA BRACE FOR THE ARRIVAL OF HURRICANE IRMA: ‘WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME’ (PICTURES)
—- Miami now a ghost town as Floridians wait bumper-to-bumper to flee Irma that has 1.4 Million under evacuation as FEMA warns the deadly hurricane could ‘devastate’ the US.
Continue reading »A TRAIN STOPS AT A STATION TWICE EVERYDAY FOR FOUR YEARS TO PICK AND DROP ONE PASSENGER (PICTURES)
—- She catches the service at 7.04am and returns promptly at 5.08pm daily —- Trains stop at the remote station based on the schoolgirl’s class timetable —- Kami-Shirataki station in Hokkaido, Japan, will close for good on March 26 A train company has been stopping at a remote station for the past three years to pick up just one passenger.
Continue reading »NEW 8,400 MILE ROUTE WILL LINK LONDON TO TOKYO VIA TRAIN
Passengers might soon be able to travel from London to Tokyo on the Trans-Siberian railway via an 8,400 mile route, in an ambitious proposal by the Russian government.
Continue reading »BULLION VAN ROBBERY ATTACK: N25M SNATCHED, POLICEMAN BADLY INJURED
A police officer sustained grave injuries on Wednesday after a gang of robbers waylaid a bank’s billion van between Otulu and Ubulu-Okiti, along Asaba/Benin expressway, Delta State, and made away with N25 million.
Continue reading »24 YEARS OLD DRIVER ARRAIGNED IN COURT FOR CRUSHING 14 YEARS OLD BOY TO DEATH
A 24-year old driver, identified as Ishola Wasiu was on Wednesday arraigned before a Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Osogbo for allegedly crushing to death a 14year boy to death, while driving a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV).
Continue reading »SHIPPERS COUNCIL, NPA TO INTRODUCE MODERN TRUCKING SYSTEM
The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has said that it has perfected plans to introduce the modern trucking system in the nation’s maritime industry in partnership with Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).
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