Aviation unions Monday paralysed activities at the nation’s airports following simultaneous protests over an alleged move to proscribe trade union activities as contained in the newly passed Civil Aviation Act. Thousands of passengers were stranded in airports across the country as many of them said they missed important appointments. Five aviation unions had last Thursday threatened to shut down the industry after discovering what they called “obnoxious clauses” in the new Act assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari penultimate week. They vowed to protest at all airports nationwide and picket the aviation agencies in Abuja and Lagos to demand for…

Students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Southwest Zone, on Tuesday, blocked the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Shagamu Interchange, in protest. The protest is in reaction to the prolonged strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU began its strike on February 14, 2022, with resumption hope dashed for many students as the union and the Federal Government are still at loggerheads. In a statement issued to the press on the protest ground, signed by the Coordinator and Public Relations Officer of the zone, Adegboye Emmanuel and Giwa Temitope, the students said the Federal Government was…

Ukraine has set its sights on freeing all territory occupied by invading Russian forces after driving them back in a speedy counter-offensive in the northeast, a goal U.S. President Joe Biden said would be "a long haul" achieving. FIGHTING * President Zelenskiy said Ukraine had recaptured around 8,000 square km (3,100 square miles), apparently all in the northeastern region of Kharkiv. About half that area had been made secure and "stabilisation measures are still ongoing" in the other half, he said. * Ukrainian presidential adviser Arestovych held out the prospects of moving on the eastern province of Luhansk, adding there…

Banks have begun to reduce approval requests for Personal Travel Allowance and Business Travel Allowance to legitimate users. The legitimate users will be able to access forex only once in two quarters, The Punch gathered. Before this new development, banks had been granting approval to travellers who applied once every quarter. Findings revealed that the development arose due to the lingering forex scarcity in the financial system. First Bank said in a mail to its customers on ‘Updates on FX purchase’ that “The full Personal Travel Allowance and Business Travel Allowance ($4,000 and $5,000) respectively will now be disbursed into…