•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo (SAN) The average domestic airfare in Nigeria is now at N123,000. This is according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its August Transport Fare Watch. It said the increase signifies a 25 percent hike from what was obtainable in July 2024. “In air travel, the average fare paid by […]
Domestic travellers paid 25 per cent more for air flights in July 2024, a new report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The bureau in its Transport Fare Watch Report for July said domestic air fare rose by 25 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to ₦98,561.74 in July 2024 from ₦78.775.74 in July […]
•Ajay Hinduja, his wife Namrata and their lawyer Robert Assael A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family today for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion. The Hindujas — who were not present in court — were acquitted of human trafficking, but convicted on other charges in a stunning […]...
•Hafsat Surajo A housewife, identified as Hafsat Surajo has narrated how she killed their domestic staff, Nafiu Hafiz who prevented her from attempting to commit suicide. Hafsat who made the confession when she was paraded before newsmen at the Kano Police headquarters, said the ugly incident leading to Nafiu’s death occurred when a quarrel en...
The total domestic debt stock may have risen by 133.95 per cent to N51.96tn as of the end of 2023. This is based on new revelations by the Director-General of the Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha. While speaking to CNBC Africa on the sidelines of the discussions for the establishment of the African Debt Managers […]
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau, has promised the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee to the Nigeria Football League. VAR is a system that helps referees to decide better about players’ fouls, if a goal was valid, red card decisions, in football matches. Gusau gave the assurance during the maiden retreat...
•Tinubu and Shettima Many African governments are currently caught in the crisis of refining domestic debts at cut-throat costs even as they overstretch the funding capacity of their central banks to bridge the gaping hole in their finances, a situation that has left many in dire straits, a report by S&P warned yesterday. The crisis [&hell...
•Infographic analysis of sexual violence in Nigeria Despite the passage into law in 2015 of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act, cases of domestic, and sexual violence have been upswing across states, even though, the main thrust of the law was to eliminate violence in private and public life, prohibit all forms of violence [&h...
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