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Lagos to Abuja flight ticket surge to N100,000 as Christmas approaches.
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Buhari: We’ll soon reopen the borders
Speaking during a meeting with governors of the 36 states on Tuesday, the president said the borders were shut in the interest of the country. He cited smuggling as one of the major reasons for taking the action but said the closure of the border had yielded results. Read more
Lagos to Abuja flight ticket surge to N100,000 as Christmas approaches.
Airfares for local travel between major cities in the country has surged by as much as 100% as Nigerians book tickets ahead of the Christmas holiday. The spike in airfares has shocked a lot of local travelers as they are told that the reason for the increase in ticket prices is due to the devaluation of the naira. Read more
Bill to assist banks recover bad loans scales through 2nd reading in Senate
A bill that would provide the needed respite and impetus to banks to recover their bad loans from customers scaled through a second reading at the Senate today. This was occasioned by the adoption of a motion moved by the sponsor of the bill, Sen. Sani Musa (APC-Niger) during the plenary. Read more
‘Polaris Bank paying dollars to money transfer’s beneficiaries’
POLARIS Bank has started the payment of dollars to beneficiaries of money transfer across all its branches. The bank, in a statement to its customers, stated that beneficiaries of money transfer could receive their remittance in dollars in cash or directly into a domiciliary account in the bank. The service is also open to account and non-account holders. Read more
11Plc explains why Mobil filing station in Maryland was demolished
A popular Mobil Filling station located by the Maryland roundabout along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way was demolished on Monday, December 7th, 2020. The demolishing surprised several customers of the filling station and commuters as they wondered why local authorities will demolish a filling station that has been in the location for years. Read more
Attention Stockbrokers: How to use Twitter consumer sentiment to predict the Nigerian Stock Market
Many stockbrokers have asked the question over and over; “Can online consumer sentiment around brands be used to predict Market Movements?” The answer is yes. Research by Bollen, Mao and Zheng of Indiana University and the University of Manchester, used the collective “mood” expressed by recent tweets on brands to predict whether the Dow Jones Index would decrease or increase. Read more
Social
P-Square Asked To Come Back As Break Dancing Is Set To Become Official Event At 2024 Paris Olympics
Nigerian TV host and lawyer, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu has advised Peter and Paul Okoye of the defunct P-Square singing group to get back and start doing music together. Ebuka stated this on Tuesday, December 8 while commenting on the news that break dancing will become an official event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Read more
Google's Top Trending Searches of 2020 Revealed: See Which Pop Culture Moments Made the List
When people say 2020 is a year that will go down in history, it's by no means an exaggeration. This year has been memorable one for a multitude of reasons, some of them good and others terribly bad. It started off on a definite low, with Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, perishing along with seven others in a plane crash. Read more
Davido's bodyguard Tijani dies at 36
Nigerian music star David Adeleke popularly known as Davido has lost his private bodyguard Ogbeide Tijani Olamilekan aka TeeJay. According to News Naija, Tijani who had been ill for a while now died in the early hours of Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Read more
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