Emirates Airlines for the past 18 months of suspending flights into Nigeria retained all its staff and kept paying salaries, BusinessDay Sunday findings showed. The airline, which suspended flight operations in November, 2022 because of its inability to repatriate its trapped funds, did not stop paying monthly salaries and rents for all […]

Oleksandr Usyk beats Tyson Fury to win historic undisputed heavyweight championship fight Oleksandr Usyk beat Tyson Fury by split decision to unify the WBA, WBO, WBC and IBF world titles; Fury and Usyk were fighting at the Kingdom Arena in Riyad to decide the first undisputed world heavyweight champion in […]

Spain Denies Permission To Ship Carrying Arms To Israel, Says Middle East Needs Peace, Not More Weapons Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, has said that the country has refused to grant permission to a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port. “This is the first […]

The Dangote oil refinery is set to put an end to the monthly importation of an average of 1 billion litres of premium motor spirit in Nigeria. This was as the Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, revealed that Nigeria would end petrol imports the moment the refinery started […]

The Federal Government has explained the importance of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to economic development, saying every 1,000,000 vehicles converted to CNG will save the country about $2.5bn. The Programme Director, Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas, Pi-CNG, Michael Oluwagbemi, said the push for CNG by the Federal Government would […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has stated that the fire incident at a tank farm in Marine Beach, Apapa, Lagos, was at a depot belonging to HOGL Energy Ltd (Honeywell Depot), and not an NNPC Retail Ltd’s facility as circulated by early responders. According to a statement signed […]

DHL’s rise from modest beginnings to become a global leader in logistics is nothing short of remarkable. In 1969, three friends, Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn, decided to start their delivery business with what little means they had in San Francisco, USA. Larry Hillblom started his career in […]

The napkin that sealed 13-year-old Lionel Messi‘s signing with Barcelona has been sold at auction for £762,400 at at Bonhams New York store. Originally starting at £300,000, the ‘standard Spanish waxy napkin,’ measuring 16.5 x 16.5 cm, was laminated and framed. Signed in blue ink in December 2000, the napkin contains a pledge from […]

Dangote refinery has commenced export of its refined product providing more revenue opportunities for the mega refinery. This is even as the refinery has placed new order for crude oil totalling about 24 million barrels over the next 12 months For the first time, a Cargo of Low- sulphur Straight […]

“Within the next four or five weeks, Nigeria shouldn’t import anything like gasoline; not one drop,” Dangote said in Kigali. Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has assured that following laid down plans of the Dangote Refinery, Nigeria as a nation will have no need to […]