The ministry of foreign affairs says the Nigerian mission in China is investigating the ejection of Nigerians from some hotels in the country.Some Nigerians were left stranded at the weekend after Chinese police ordered their ejection for reasons yet unknown.Tope Elias-Fatile, the ministry’s spokesman, who confirmed the incident to TheCable, said the Nigerian mission in China is on top of [...]
Over 1000 Indian teachers have threatened to commit suicide on July 26 to protest unpaid salaries.The agitating teachers claimed that in the last 12 years, the current dispensation in the north-eastern state of Assam, India, has arbitrarily stopped paying more than 12,000 teachers in state-run schools.They alleged that 3,000 of such teachers have retired, while 91 have committed suicide.They claimed [...]
Godwin Adama, consul general (CG) of Nigeria in South Africa, says there were 5,000 Nigerian medical practitioners working in various teaching, public and private hospitals in South Africa.According to David Abraham, vice consul, information and culture, Emeka Ugwu, secretary general of the Nigerian Doctors’ Forum South Africa, disclosed this when he visited him in Johannesburg.“This shows that virtually every hospital in South [...]
Not less than 18 people were killed in an attack by Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad region, NAN quoted a Chadian military source as saying.“Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua, not far from Chad’s border with Niger, at around 9pm on Thursday," the military source said.The insurgents were said to have “cut the throats of [...]
Some Nigerians lodged in hotels in China are reportedly stranded after Chinese police allegedly ordered their ejection.In a video which surfaced online, a group of Nigerians gathered in an unidentified location can be seen complaining to a man who appears to be a resident."The order is not from the hotel management, it is from the local police here. We are [...]
A nursing mother was among the 155 Nigerians stranded in Russia who arrived the country on Friday.Scores of Nigerians who travelled to the country for the World Cup were unable to leave, having discovered that they were swindled.On Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered their immediate repatriation on the expense of the federal government.The stranded football fans came through Ethiopian Airline flight [...]
Passengers including hundreds of Nigerians on board Air France flight from France to Lagos and Abuja have since Wednesday been stranded at Charles De Gaulle International Airport, Paris.Many of them have slept at the airport since Wednesday owing to what the management of the airline described as malfunctioning of their planes and lack of aviation fuel.According to NAN, some of [...]
A South Korean court has sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016 parliamentary election.Park was sentenced to 24 years in jail after she was found guilty of separate charges including bribery, abuse of power and coercion.Her total prison sentence [...]
The ministry of foreign affairs says Nigerians stranded in Russia after the 2018 World Cup will be evacuated on Friday.Tope Elias-Fatile, the ministry's spokesperson, said over 230 stranded Nigerians had been cleared to board an Ethiopian Airline flight to Abuja.He said the development was sequel to President Muhammadu Buhari's directive that stranded Nigerians in Russia should be evacuated with immediate [...]
Senegal's criminal court has sentenced 13 people to prison for attempting to establish a homegrown cell modelled after Boko Haram in the West Africa country.One of those jailed by the Dakar court on Thursday was Makhtar Diokhane, described as the ringleader of the group. He was handed a 20-year prison term."The court was very heavy-handed in sentencing our client [...]
