Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, says Nigerians were warned against going to "deadly and dangerous" Libya.Dabiri-Erewa said this in reaction to the report of ongoing auctions of African nationals in the North African country.Speaking on Channels TV programme, Politics Today, on Thursday, she said: "NEMA, my office, IOM told Nigerians that avoid [...]
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Jerry Gana, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said Nigerians are tired of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).According to Gana, Nigerians are "eagerly waiting" for the PDP, a former ruling party, to get its act together ahead of the 2019 general election.Gana said this on Monday during a consultative meeting between Tunde Adeniran, an aspirant for [...]
Twenty-six Nigerian women lost their lives while attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea, the BBC is reporting.The Nigerians are suspected to have been sexually abused and murdered at the sea.Italian prosecutors have begun an investigation into the deaths of the women, said to be mostly teenagers.The BBC also reports that their bodies were currently in a Spanish warship — Cantabria [...]
Abdulrahman Dambazau, minister of interior, has warned that Nigeria would no longer tolerate delay in issuance of visa to its nationals from any country.The minister said this on Monday in Abuja while meeting with Geoffrey Onyeama, foreign affairs minister, to resolve some of the issues militating against visa issuance.The meeting also had in attendance Abubakar Malami, the attorney general of [...]
Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has raised concerns over the “hate and diabolic thoughts” some Nigerians are filled with.Writing on his Facebook page on Saturday, Adesina wondered why these Nigerians are always "in the gall of bitterness and bondage of iniquity," never expecting anything good to happen to the country.He said what such [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigerians have the constitutional right to live, work and raise their families in any part of the country without restrictions.The president had made the same declaration on August 21, two days after his return from the UK, where he received medical treatment.His declaration was a tacit reaction to the ultimatum issued by some northern youth groups [...]
The embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria on Tuesday reminded Nigerians that it is no longer in charge of issuing visas to them.Michel Deleen, the embassy’s charge d’ affaires, told NAN in Lagos that the embassy had since 2013 swapped its visa issuance processes in Nigeria with the French Consulate General in Lagos and the embassy of Belgium in [...]
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said government officials received an estimated N400bn in bribes within a year.The bureau made this known in its National Corruption Report released on Wednesday.A survey carried out in collaboration with the UN office on drugs and crime showed that 32.3 per cent of Nigerian adults paid bribes to public officials between June 2015 and May 2016."Taking into [...]
Two hundred and sixty-two more Nigerians voluntarily returned home from Libya on Wednesday with the help of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the Nigerian embassy in that country.NAN reports that the returnees arrived aboard a chartered Libyan Airlines aircraft with registration number 5A-LAR, which landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 10pm.The returnees, who had been [...]
BY ISRAEL EBIJE President Muhammadu Buhari has perfected the art and science of stealth, elusiveness amidst fabulous story lines that formed critical mass of supporters and detractors each time he travels for medication. He has eluded story tellers, doom prophets, agitators and indeed those who are on the speed lane to inherit his presidency. The president has again resurrected like a [...]
Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, on Wednesday, said some Nigerians "reportedly drowned" in Bakassi while fleeing from Cameroonian soldiers over the fear of "forceful" compulsion to pay owed tax.He said the community leaders confirmed the drowning but had no "proof" of the "assertions", adding that there was no evidence of 97 Nigerians being killed by Cameroonian gendarmes.Onyeama made the clarification [...]
The Spanish government on Tuesday deported 23 Nigerians for committing various offences in the country, NAN reports.They were deported barely five days after 34 Nigerians were sent home from six European countries for committing immigration-related offences.They arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, at about 6.40am on Tuesday.The new deportees, comprising 21 males and two females, were brought back [...]
Another batch of one hundred and seventy-five (175) Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on Tuesday aboard a chartered Nouvelair aircraft with registration number TS-INA.NAN reports that the aircraft landed at 7.50pm at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.The returnees were made up of 34 males, 122 females, 10 children and nine infants.They were brought back by the International Organisation for [...]
Nigeria's 16 million Facebook users represents the highest in Africa, says Umar Danbatta, vice chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).Danbatta said this in a keynote address at the maiden lecture of CKN News in Lagos, where he spoke on the role of social media in the economic, political and social development of Nigeria.Describing social media as the marketplace of creativity and [...]
Not less than 44 persons - Nigerians and Ghanaians - have died of thirst in the Sahara Desert, in northern Niger.The West Africans lost their lives after their truck broke down in the desert, the BBC quotes Red Cross as saying.Six women, who survived the ordeal, were said to have told the story of how their compatriots died.Children were among [...]
Chris Ngige, the minister of labour and employment, says he feels fulfilled despite the inability of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to meet the expectations of Nigerians.The minister said he will give the president a pass mark for his efforts since assuming office two years ago.He urged Nigerians to be patient and have hope in the present administration, assuring that the [...]
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