The African Development Bank (AfDB) has kicked off a feasibility study to explore the potential of electricity cooperative business models in Nigeria and Ethiopia. The effort is part of the Bank’s goal of achieving universal electricity access across Africa by 2025, having realised that power shortages diminishes the region’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth between […]
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Ethiopian Airlines has announced its first all-female crew flight to Nigeria. The airline said women would be expected to fill every role on the flight, from the pilots and cabin crew to in flight ramp operations as well as flight dispatchers on the ground. According to the airline, this will also be the first time […]
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The global airline industry has $1.2 billion blocked in nine dollar-strapped African countries, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Monday. The global commodities price crash that began in 2014 hit economies across Africa hard, particularly big resource exporters such as Angola and Nigeria. Low oil and mineral prices have reduced government revenue and […]
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The Ethiopian Aviation Academy says it has graduated 262 aviation professionals during a recent ceremony held at the academy’s Commercial and Cabin Crew Training centre. According to the airline, among the graduates were 50 pilots, 66 aviation maintenance technicians, 120 cabin crew and 26 equipment and facility maintenance technicians with 10 majoring in industrial mechanics […]
Read More Ethiopian Airlines, a leading African carrier, owned 100 per cent by the Ethiopian government, says it has made a bid to the Federal Government to take over embattled Arik Air, Nigeria’s biggest airline. Arik Air, which was taken over the Federal Government through the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) last February due to its […]
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Ethiopian Airlines is to commence scheduled flight services thrice a week to Kaduna in North Western Nigeria from August 1. The airline made the announcement in a statement signed by its Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam, in Lagos on Thursday. GebreMariam said the airline would operate the flights on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. […]
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Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus won the race to be the next head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, becoming the first African to lead the United Nations agency. The former health minister and foreign minister received more than half the votes in the first round and then won a decisive second-round election, beating […]
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Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has ordered Ethiopian Airlines to stop taking deportation charges from Nigerians travelling to South Africa. According to the NCAA, the refundable deportation fee that the airline charges passengers without valid South African visa or a return ticket is illegal and unauthorised. The NCAA said it had received complaints that all South […]
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The beehives of Ethiopia, Africa’s top honey producer, make about a quarter of the continent’s honey, but travellers who come to sample the liquid gold often find there isn’t enough to go around. In a country where 85 percent of all jobs are in agriculture, industry experts say the beekeeping — or apiculture — sector […]
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At least 30 people died and dozens more hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump outside Addis Ababa, a tragedy squatters living there blamed on a biogas plant being built nearby. Saturday’s landslide saw dozens of homes of people living in the dump levelled after a part of the largest pile of […]
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari leave Abuja today on a three-day state visit to Kenya. A statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Frmi Adesina, said Buhari on arrival in Kenya will join his host, President Uhuru Kenyatta and other dignitaries at a memorial service for Kenyan soldiers killed by More>>> PhotoCredit: The Nation
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari leave Abuja today on a three-day state visit to Kenya. A statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Frmi Adesina, said Buhari on arrival in Kenya will join his host, President Uhuru Kenyatta and other dignitaries at a memorial service for Kenyan soldiers killed by Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia […]
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