Nigeria’s government said it is to save about N4 billion annually from travel costs as the Efficiency Unit (E_UNIT) of the Ministry of Finance enters discussions with local and international airlines to secure travel discounts for government officials. The discussions, the ministry said in a statement, are yielding positive results. According to the statement issued […]
WHERE are the historical roots of the Ijebu and the Igbo? For a Nigerian researcher, Dr. Fatai Ayisa Olasupo, these roots are firmly located in the Middle East, precisely Israel. Olasupo who is a senior lecturer at the Department of Local Government Studies, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State, wrote […]
In our series of letters from African journalists, Nigerian novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers if Nigerians are getting worse at writing good stories. Last month, the judges of the $100,000 (£65,000) Nigeria Prize for Literature announced that there would be no winner for 2015. Professor Ayo Banjo, chairman of the advisory board for […]
IVA Valley is now a ghost town. The ghosts of 21 miners: fathers, husbands, sons, breadwinners, that fell to a hail of bullets on November 18, 1949 at the district’s troubled colliery, haunt Iva Valley even as you read. Sixty six years since their massacre, their chilling howls echo through six decades, like a falsetto […]
The number of air passengers embarking on international trips from Nigeria plunged by 27.93 per cent in the second quarter of 2015. The Nigerian Aviation Sector report for the second quarter of 2015 released over the weekend by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that 1,048,598 passengers travelled abroad by air in the second […]
4,105 Kebbi State Pilgrims would be airlifted from the Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport, Birnin Kebbi to Saudi Arabia for the 2015 Hajj exercise, our correspondent gathered yesterday from senior officials in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Deputy Governor of Kebbi State and chairman of the State Task Force Committee on Hajj, Samaila Dabai Yombe, when contacted […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service said it barred no fewer than 4,916 Nigerians from travelling out of the country between January and March, 2015. The Nigerians were suspected to be on their way to join international terrorist organisations, including the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq and the Taliban, sources within the NIS confided in our […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has confirmed the air return made by domestic carrier, Aero Contractors‘ plane from Abuja on Tuesday afternoon, July 21. A statement from the General Manager, Public Affairs of NCAA, Fan Ndubuoke, revealed that the aircraft which took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport Domestic Terminal (MMA2) at about 3p.m. to […]
Three Ghanaian domestic airlines have barred a physically-challenged Nigerian, Ndifreke Andrew-Essien from travelling. One of the airlines had also refused to refund Andrew-Essien, a fellow of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The three airlines, Africa World Airlines, Antrak Air and Starbow Airlines told the Nigerian, who uses a wheelchair to move around […]
Conceptualised to attract the much needed traffic to Tinapa Resort, Summit Hills is the next big thing to happen to tourism in Nigeria, writes Solomon Elusoji Across the world, tourism is big business, some economies are built on it, and it barely fails to deliver substantial revenue. According to the World Tourism Organisation, 698 million […]