Domestic shipowners
25 Oct
Nigeria’s Cabotage Act, enacted in 2003, was intended to reserve certain maritime activities, such as coastal shipping, exclusively for vessels registered in Nigeria and manned by Nigerians.
23 Oct
Despite controlling 70 per cent of the cargoes in West and Central Africa, the promised economic growth and job creation remain a mirage with domestic shipowners struggling to compete against foreign-flagged vessels
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Nigeria has received more than one million doses of the pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) from the Gavi-funded global stockpile, to curb a deadly outbreak of meningitis in the north. The outbreak, caused by meningococcus C and W strains, has claimed over 70 lives and led to more than 800 reported cases across 23…
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Nigerian content creator, Ijoba Lande, has begged for mercy after accusing filmmaker Funke Akindele of underpaying him. In a new video trending on social media, Lande said he never meant to damage Akindele’s image and blamed the backlash on a misleading, edited version of his earlier video. “Please help me. Don’t let me end up…
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Poland will launch an information campaign abroad to deter migrants from trying to cross into the European Union through its border with Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday. Warsaw has blamed Belarus and its ally Russia for what it calls a hybrid operation to increase migratory pressure at its eastern border and…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Ayo Sotinrin as the new Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture, with immediate effect. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Onanuga said that Sotinrin's appointment aligns with the goals of Tinubu's administration and his ability…
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Kylian Mbappe was on Friday among three Real Madrid players fined by UEFA for "violating basic rules of decent conduct" during their Champions League last 16, second leg win over Atletico Madrid. France forward Mbappe was fined 30,000 euros ($33,000), with German defender Antonio Rudiger getting a 40,000-euro fine and midfielder Dani Ceballos 20,000 euros.…
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Nigerian musician Chinagorom Onuoha, popularly known as African China, has intensified the ongoing 30 Days Rant Challenge with more videos and documentaries. The 30 Days Rant Challenge which was initiated by a NYSC corps member, seeks a redress on the nation's economic challenges. African China contributed by releasing a new song titled Photocopy, which critiques…
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Republican senators scrambled Friday to pass a budget plan that will unlock trillions of dollars for US President Donald Trump's vision of radical tax and spending cuts. The Trump-backed blueprint has sparked bitter clashes over how deeply to wield the knife among Republicans in Congress, already wary of public anger over sweeping cuts to federal…
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Kenya can try Meta, parent company of Facebook, over allegations the social media platform failed to stop the spread of hateful content during a civil war in Ethiopia, a court said Friday. Two Ethiopian citizens and a local NGO accuse Facebook of promoting harmful content during the 2020-22 war between Ethiopia's federal government and rebels…
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Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing fresh legal woes as federal prosecutors filed two additional criminal charges against him, just a month ahead of his scheduled trial in New York. The updated indictment, filed on Friday March 4, 2025, brings the total number of federal charges against the entertainment executive to five. The superseding…
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has reported that three towers were affected by the tripping of the Ikeja-West/Osogbo 330-kilovolt (kV) transmission line.Resulting in a load loss of 165 megawatts (MW). TCN’s General Manager of Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, who disclosed this on Friday in Abuja, noted that the incident had resulted in a…