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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
PRETORIA (AFP) – South Africa on Thursday apologised for blocking 125 Nigerians from the country and unveiled new immigration procedures aimed at ending a diplomatic row between the continent’s two powerhouses. The dispute blew up after immigration officials at Johannesburg’s main airport on Friday refused entry to Nigerians over suspicions that their yellow fever vaccination […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
ABUJA (AFP) – A British and an Italian hostage killed on Thursday were murdered by “their Boko Haram captors” and those responsible have been arrested, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement. Jonathan “condemned the killing of two kidnapped foreigners — an Italian and a British citizen — in Sokoto state Thursday by their […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Fed Govt issues five conditions to end diplomatic row FIFTY-Six South Africans were barred last night from entering Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Twenty-eight were stopped on Sunday – in retaliation for the deportation of 125 Nigerians last Friday – as reported exclusively yesterday by The Nation. The government […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
ask Foreign Affairs Minister to invoke the tenets of reciprocity BY EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA – THE Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mrs Nnena Elendu-Ukeje,Tuesday asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Gbenga Ashiru to invoke the tenets of reciprocity in tackling the present face-off between Nigeria and South Africa. The House […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Following the deportation of 125 Nigerians from South Africa last Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Kingsley Mamabolo, over the unfortunate incident. At about 2:24p.m, Daily Sun had earlier sought for an audience with the High Commissioner but was told by an officials of the Commission […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Fed Govt demands review of Yellow Fever certificate policy NIGERIA hit back at South Africa last night. Twenty-eight South Africans were denied entry into Lagos – a tit for tat that has deepened the row between the two countries. South Africa last Friday deported 125 Nigerians from the Oliver Tambo International Airport in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Johannesburg – Many Nigerians aboard Arik Air and South Africa Airways flights were refused entry to South Africa on Friday. The passengers were denied entry by the South Africa Port Health authority and the immigration service on the ground that they had invalid yellow fever vaccination cards. One of the passengers, Olaminde Olaofe, said that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Breaking News, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency)
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 35-year-old Pakistani with 13 kilogrammes of “high grade” heroin with an estimated street value of about N120m. The anti-drug agency said the suspect, Mr. Syed Ahmed-Bukhari, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, shortly after arriving aboard a Qatar Airways flight from […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, former Ghanaian president, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, Professor Wole Soyinka, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, past and serving governors and others bade farewell to ex-Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, even as former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, was not physically present. The remains of the Igbo hero moved from Enugu to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Malaysia has banned a scheduled concert by Grammy award winner and singer, Erykah Badu, over body art with the Arabic word for Allah. The Islamic country banned the R&B singer from going ahead with the conernt after some Muslim groups ruled she was an unsuitable role model for young Malaysians after seeing a publicity […]
