IATA, AFRAA, AASA oppose airline charges for border security
By Dickson Omobola African Airlines Association, AFRAA, the Airlines Association of Southern Africa, AASA, and the International Air Transport Association, IATA, have urged African countries to implement the Advance Passenger Information, API, and Passenger Name Record, PNR, systems in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO, standards and global best practices. API and PNR systems […]
Nigeria, other African countries face six-fold increase in security threat in 2yrs – US AFRICOM
Brigadier General Paul G. Filcek, Director of Logistics at US AFRICOM, disclosed this during a digital press conference with African journalists on the ongoing 2026 Africa Logistics and Communications Symposium, co-hosted with the Ethiopian Ministry of Defence.
72% of world trade still goes on under WTO – Okonjo-Iweala
“Services trade grew by 5.3 per cent again in modern terms, and within that, trading digitally delivered services grew even faster, at almost six per cent.
Pass distributor stabbed to death over ticket dispute, police arrest 2
Operatives of the Taraba State Police Command have arrested two suspects following a violent altercation that led to the death of a commercial tricycle union pass distributor at Angwan Kassa junction, a suburb of Jalingo, the state capital.
Unpaid Salaries: Protesters were recruited in compromised process – C/River Commissioner
Cross River State Government has thrown its weight behind an ongoing payroll sanitisation exercise, dismissing Wednesday’s protest by persons claiming to be unpaid local government workers as a calculated bid to force government into legitimising appointments that never followed due process.
LASTMA opens physical complaint centre
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, said its newly inaugurated toll-free hotline recorded 2,843 public engagements within the first 30 days of operation, as the agency moves to strengthen transparency and citizen engagement.
