October 15, 2024
Ericsson posts $374m profit in Q3
Ericsson said Tuesday it returned to profit in the third quarter as a big contract with US carrier AT&T gave the Swedish telecommunications equipment giant a boost. Ericsson posted a net profit of 3.9 billion Swedish kronor ($374 million) in the quarter after a heavy loss of 30.5 billion kronor over the same period last […]
FG to invest $2bn in 90,000km fibre-optic project
The Federal Government has announced plans to invest $2 billion dollars to deploy 90,000kilometers fibre optic project in the country. The project is designed to expand Nigeria’s fibre optic cable capacity from 35,000km to 125,000km, to boost terrestrial fibre optic backbone in Nigeria. The Minister of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, stated this […]
Damagum orders arrest of PDP factional chairman amid deepening party crisis
The internal rift within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) intensified as Umar Illiya Damagum, the acting National Chairman, instructed security agencies to arrest Ahmed Yayari Mohammed, the factional party chairman, following allegations of contempt for a court order. The directive comes amid accusations that Mohammed’s faction violated legal rulings concerning their legitimacy within the party. […]
VIDEO: How Super Eagles ordeal began in Libya — Tunisian pilot
The Tunisian pilot who flew the ValueJet plane with Nigeria’s Super Eagles and officials aboard has explained how the team’s ordeal began in Libya. According to him, Libyan authority earlier approved the plane to land at Benghazi Airport. He stated that the communications to divert to another airport, Al Abraq, where the players were stranded, […]
Cross River, Lagos lead as mpox spreads to 63 LGs
Mpox has spread to 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory across 63 local government areas in the country. This is according to the Mpox situation report obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. This was even as it said 94 confirmed cases have been reported out of the 1,297 […]
Edo Polls: Ighodalo, PDP Face Backlash Over iREV Results
Three weeks after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Senator Monday Okpebholo governor-elect in Edo State, a leading pro-democracy forum has made some startling revelations against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo. The Abuja-based Initiative for Democratic Advancement and Free Speech, in a statement in Abuja, told the PDP in […]
AEDC restores power after outage
The power outages Nigerians experienced on Monday evening have been restored in some parts of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company franchise areas. A News Agency of Nigeria check revealed that places like Deidei, Suleja, Lugbe, Kuje and other areas had their light restored on Tuesday at about 5:15 am. Customers in the AEDC were told of […]
Sokoto to sell foodstuffs at 55% discount
Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, on Monday, inaugurated a special committee on the sales of assorted food items to the people of the state at a 55 per cent discount. In light of this, the governor said his government had procured food items and other essential commodities to be sold at a discounted price. Speaking […]
NAFDAC denounces staff claims amid ongoing strike
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has said the agency is not in charge of determining the number of staff to be promoted. Adeyeye said this while reacting to the ongoing indefinite strike embarked on by the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and […]
ECOWAS Court gets new leadership
The ECOWAS Court of Justice (CCJ) has elected Cape Verde’s Justice Ricardo Gonçalves as its new President. It also elected Sierra Leone’s Justice Sengu Koroma as new Vice President, both for non-renewable four-year tenure. They were elected by the court’s college of five judges, and subsequently inaugurated by Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Embalo. Embalo is the […]