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Aviation jet A1 fuel is to be sold at N500 within the next three days to prevent airlines from shutting down. This is according to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari after a meeting with marketers, regulators and operators in the aviation industry. The meeting, which was presided over
KYIV, Ukraine — Three European leaders will travel to Kyiv on Tuesday to express the European Union’s “unequivocal support” for Ukraine and offer financial help, the Czech and Polish governments said. The leaders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia will travel to the Ukrainian capital as fighting rages around the city, with a half
By Echezonam Ibezim Nigeria is actually looking so frail and bleak at the moment with all hopes of her getting better looking increasingly dicey. First, “what do you make of a family whose kids are dying of hunger, some sent out of school, some kidnapped etc and the father abandons them to travel out to
It was George Bernard Shaw who said that “we must reform society before we can reform ourselves.” This statement is the much needed reality in Nigeria particularly Anambra state that just elected an erudite and fearless reformist as the governor. Anambra since after the charade administration of Gov. Mbadinuju in 2003 has been on an
Nigerian Airline operators are demanding operational licenses from the federal government to begin importation of fuel, following the recent fuel scarcity across the country. Airpeace Chairman, Allen Onyema, warned that Airlines in the country would shut down operations over the non-availability of Aviation fuel to run their operations. ‘We have only three more days, all
Nigeria’s National Power Grid has collapsed again yesterday leaving the entire country without electricity supply. The latest collapse followed weeks of bickering among operators that have led to poor power generation by the electricity generation companies (GenCos). Checks by Vanguard on the National System Operator’s portal showed that as of 7 pm last night no
The wife of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, on Monday, slumped at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Ramatu Yakubu Kyari slumped and fell on the floor while men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency were leading Kyari and others away from the court premises. After she slumped, she was quickly carried
Police men and women are planning to go on an unprecedented two-week warning strike across the nation beginning on March 26 in protest against poor working conditions, New Telegraph has learnt. The morale of police officers is said to be at a low ebb, with many grumbling about poor salaries, a lack of genuine welfare
ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months. The decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja last night. Although the union has not made any public statement regarding the outcome of the meeting, a source told Vanguard
A female inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Lagos State Command, Okike Chinyere, has emerged as the best graduating student of the Peace and Conflict Resolution department, National Open University (NOUN). She bagged a second-class upper degree in the course, according to a statement by the correctional service. Aside from her, a male inmate, Alegbe