Day: December 1, 2021

United Airlines resumes US-Nigeria flight operations after 5-year hiatus

Damilola Olonade

United Airlines says it has commenced flight operations from Washington, United States, to Lagos, Nigeria. The new service marks the airline’s return to Nigeria since it left in 2016 over foreign exchange crisis. In a statement, the airline announced that its inaugural flight from Washington arrived in Lagos on Tuesday. It stated that with three weekly flights, United is the “first and only airline serving Washington, D.C. nonstop from Lagos.” “The flight is operated with state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, featuring United’s award-winning United PolarisSM business class cabin and United Premium PlusSM…

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Courts Jail IBEDC Power Assets’ Vandals for 2 years

Gbenga Adeoti

How we secured conviction against the transformer, Cables vamdals in two Courts , IBEDC Management declares in a statement to Platforms Africa    Two Courts sitting in 8badan have jailed two men; Yusuff Olatunji and Ademola Toheeb, after they found them guilty of vanadalism of key power assets belonging to Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc. (IBEDC). Platforms Africa reports that the Grade A, Customary Court of Appeal, Ibadan and Magistrate Court, Moniya, Ibadan, read the conviction judgments on 15th October, 2021 and 22nd November, 2021 respectively. The IBEDC, which confirmed…

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BREAKING: Nigeria Confirms Two Cases Of Omicron COVID-19 Variant

Amodu Ganiyu

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. Platforms Africa reports that this was contained in a press release issued by the centre and signed by the Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa. The Omicron variant, a new strain of the coronavirus disease, was reported by South Africa and first detected in Botswana. Following the discovery, countries such as the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Israel among others placed travel bans on southern African countries. READ ALSO: Omicron, Serious Threat to…

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