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There was pandemonium a‎t Kaduna International Airport as bandits and soldiers exchanged gunfire around the airport on Saturday afternoon.   The incident, which happened around 12:30 pm, according to sources, led to the temporary shutdown of the Airport. Daily Trust gathered that an AZMAN aircraft scheduled for Lagos was about to take off when the incident happened.   ‎There are ...

Huawei Technologies (Nigeria) Limited has announced the launch of its OceanProtect Data Protection for the Nigerian market, which it says provides a series of comprehensive data protection solutions that cover disaster recovery (DR), data backups, and data archiving for the rapid growth of diversified service data and the entire data lifecycle.   “Based on the concept of ‘full DR of ...

With production and data being core catalyst for a digital economy, Huawei says it remains committed towards exploring green, reliable, and intelligent data infrastructure to help customers unlock the value of data. This is even as it stated that digital transformation is a recognized way to modernize companies and move organization forward. The Director of Huawei Nigeria Enterprise Business, Tank ...

The decision of former Nigerian internationals to endorse Bola Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, for president in 2023, has elicited angry reactions from Nigerians on microblogging site, Twitter, with many berating them over the move.   A video of the former footballers, including Pastor Taribo West, a former Nigerian defender, who was seen praying fervently for Tinubu, asking God ...

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, today said the court judgement allowing political appointees to run for office will go into effect.   The AGF made the government’s position known in a statement Friday night.   Malami said he would act “accordingly…in line with the dictates of the law and the spirit of the judgment.”   He ...

The Federal Government has confirmed the removal of electricity subsidies.   Sanusi Garba, the chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) made this known at a news conference in Abuja, on Thursday.   According to Garba, the review was conducted in line with multi-year tariff order that mandates that electricity tariff be reviewed every six months.   NERC’s confirmation ...

Bianca Ojukwu has opened up on the fight incident involving her and Ebelechukwu Obiano, the immediate past first lady of Anambra state during the inauguration of Charles Soludo as the new governor of the state, on Thursday.   It was  reported that Bianca slapped the former First lady during the inauguration after she abused her, leading to a fight between ...

Newsmaxng  reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arrested former Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city.   This online news platform understands that Obiano, who has been on the EFCC watchlist, was arrested at about 8.30 pm on Thursday, March 17, 2022.   We learned that Willie ...

Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, a former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, has been sworn-in as the fifth democratically elected governor of Anambra State. Soludo, who won the November 9 governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), was sworn-in during a low-key ceremony ongoing at the Government House in Awka, the state capital. The professor ...

The Federal Government has said that the recent collapse of the national grid had been sorted out. The Minister of Power, Engineer Abubakar Aliyu, said this Wednesday while fielding questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.   He said there are other challenges ...