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Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
Abuja—The last batch of Nigerians being repatriated from Saudi Arabia yesterday arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.. The Director, Consular and Immigration Service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Abdulazeez Dan-Kano, told newsmen that the remaining 131 deportees out of 518 were transported home. According to Dan-Kano, 51 of the deportees are from Kano […]
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Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
The first batch of 80 Nigerians to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the deportees arrived in the country on board an Ethiopian Airline plane at about noon. Mr Daniel Obot, the Assistant Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, National Emergency […]
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Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
Two bombs in Christian areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 35 people, officials have said. One device exploded near a Catholic church when worshippers were leaving a Christmas Day service, killing 24. Another bomb ripped through a market, killing 11 more people. Christian leaders denied that the attacks had targeted worshippers. […]
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Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
UK business tycoon Richard Branson has called on companies and tourists to boycott Uganda after its parliament approved a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts. It was against his conscience to support a country which carried out a “dreadful witch hunt against the gay community”, he said on his website. The bill proposes […]
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Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
International efforts are intensifying to end the bloodshed in South Sudan, where thousands of people are believed to have died in the past 10 days. The UN Security Council is almost doubling the number of peacekeepers to 12,500 in the world’s newest state.US Secretary of State John Kerry urged both President Salva Kiir and rebel […]
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Monday, December 23rd, 2013
By Emma Emeozor The harassment of Ghanaians by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the country’s border posts has become a major concern to the Ghanaian community in Nigeria. In a chat with Daily Sun on the sideline of the 2013 celebration of the National Association of Ghanaian Communities in Nigeria (NAGHACON) held in […]
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
A UN official in South Sudan has spoken of an atmosphere of fear and desperation as violence escalates. Humanitarian Co-ordinator Toby Lanzer told the BBC about summary executions in Bor, in the restive state of Jonglei that has fallen to rebels. He said that as well as people seeking refuge at the UN base there […]
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Friday, December 20th, 2013
LONDON (AFP) – A Nigerian failed asylum seeker who has been on hunger strike for around 100 days was removed from Britain on Wednesday following an unsuccessful legal battle. Isa Muazu has been returned to Nigeria, immigration minister Mark Harper said. The 45-year-old had been detained since July after he was found to have overstayed […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
François Hollande‘s beleaguered socialist government was under increased pressure to boost the eurozone’s second largest economy after a collapse in manufacturing orders tonight left it on the cusp of another recession. A survey of French manufacturers found that output contracted and businesses shed jobs in November in response to the fastest slowdown in new orders […]
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
As many as 13,000 people have fled to two UN compounds in Juba | credits: Reuters Fresh gunfire has erupted overnight in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, a day after the government said it had quashed an attempted coup. There are reports of heavy weapons being fired near a military headquarters just outside Juba. Several […]
