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Monday, February 20th, 2017
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian High Commission and consulate in Pretoria and Johannesburg to investigate the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, explained that the findings of the probe would be on his table this week. This was occasioned by the killing […]
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Saturday, February 18th, 2017
Guardian Thousands of supporters gathered Saturday to finally celebrate the inauguration of Gambian President Adama Barrow, a month after he was sworn in across the border in neighbouring Senegal during a tense power struggle. February 18 is also the anniversary of The Gambia’s independence from Britain, but many are also calling the day the […]
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Saturday, February 18th, 2017
India arrests Nigerian Okonkwo with ingested cocaine By NAN Monday Tony Okonkwo India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has recovered 1.3 kilograms of fine quality Colombian cocaine stashed in 90 capsules from the stomach of a Nigerian , who had come to Delhi from Lome, Togo. According to The Times of India, the accused […]
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Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Nigerian returnees from Libya have revealed how their search for financial freedom and a better life turned into a nightmare for them. On Tuesday, 161 Nigerians returned voluntarily from Libya, assisted by the International Organisation for Migration after being detained for several months in Libya. They said they travelled to the North African country […]
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Sunday, November 13th, 2016
RCCG pastor’s son stabbed to death in Canada bar Kunle Falayi At about 2am on Sunday, November 6, 21-year-old Solomon Odekunle was seen stumbling out of a popular hangout, Piper’s Bar and Grill, in Ottawa, Canada, with blood gushing out of his neck. Eyewitnesses interviewed by the police said few steps away, he collapsed on […]
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Friday, November 11th, 2016
-Vanguard By Joseph Erunke ABUJA- Vice President, Inter-Parliamentary Union for Africa,IPU-Africa, and senator representing Kano Central, Kabiru Gaya, Friday, frowned at Ghanaian government for introducing $120 residency fee for Nigerians in the country , saying the development, which he noted, was against the spirit of brotherliness in Africa, must not be allowed to stand. […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
By Chukwuma Muanya, Assistant Editor Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole advertisement TOP HEADLINES Nigerians seeking overseas treatment for medical conditions and those who go to have their babies so that they could become citizens of that country, may not be allowed into the United Kingdom (U.K.) after a Nigerian […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2016
Mike hasn’t told any of his friends or family that he’s left France, even though he’s been back in Nigeria for nearly six months. “They’d say I was mad,” he said. The 25-year-old returned to Benin City in Nigeria’s south, more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the region where he grew up — […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Ghana passes law ‘to evict presidents Outgoing presidents in Ghana could be forcibly evicted from their official residences if they fail to move out in time, under new laws. Presidents and vice-presidents will have to hand over official homes and vehicles at least two weeks before the inauguration of a new leader. Ministers and other […]
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Friday, October 21st, 2016
A number of popular websites like Twitter and Netflix went down for some users on Friday in a massive cyberattack with international reach. Affected sites included Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Etsy (ETSY), Github, Vox, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix(NFLX, Tech30) and Reddit. Dyn, which manages website domains and routes internet traffic, experienced two distributed denial of service attacks on its DNS servers. A DDoS attack […]
