The government of Jigawa State has concluded arrangements to relocate its 194 students in Sudan to Cyprus and India to continue their medical studies. Addressing the students and their parents at the Government House, Dutse, Governor Umar Namadi said, since the outbreak of the civil war in Sudan Republic, the state government has been following […]
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The Southwest states of Nigeria have appealed to the new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Mr Jalal Ahmed Arabi, to release their 2022 hajj refunds withheld by his predecessor Mr Zikirullah Kunle Hassan. The states are: Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Oyo and Ekiti. The Southwest states revealed […]
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The Directorate General, Immigration Office, Belgium, Mr. Freddy Roosemont, has disclosed that approximately 30 percent of Nigerian migrants seeking asylum in the country are from Edo State. Roosemont, who made the disclosure on Wednesday in Benin City during a press conference, added that no fewer than 20% of asylum seekers in the European country […]
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More than 320 Nigerians stranded in Libya have been rescued with the International Organisation for Migration coordinating moves to help them return to Nigeria. War-torn Libya has become a key departure point on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast for migrants, mainly from other parts of Africa, risking dangerous sea voyages in hopes of reaching Europe. AFP […]
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Nigeria has topped countries with significant power shortages in 2023, alongside emerging economies like Pakistan and Kenya, a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has shown. According to the 2024 IEA report, insufficient power capacity, fuel supply challenges, and grid-related technical issues continued to cause significant power shortages in many regions across […]
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The United States of America has committed a new grant of $9.5 million to support the Africa Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) initiative (TAAT). According to a statement from AfDB, the grant is a part of the larger US Government’s “Feed the Future” global hunger initiative that would be used for […]
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its January edition of World Economic Outlook (WEO) slightly lowered its growth projections for the country for 2024 to three percent, from the 3.1 percent earlier projected in its WEO released last October. The IMF growth projection was lower than the 3.76 percent projection in Nigeria’s 2024 budget. The […]
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and the Nigerian government have disagreed over the latest ranking of the country by the Transparency International. Transparency International Nigeria says Nigeria now ranks 145 out of 180 on the Corruption Perception Index. The latest index, recently released by TI, indicated that Nigeria moved up five places from previous CPI […]
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Nigeria’s former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, says Russia is backing Burkina Faso, Niger Republic, and Mali’s sudden withdrawal from ECOWAS. He said Russia is seeking to weaken ‘western influence’ in Africa adding that he sees ‘the hand of Russia’ in what he described as a crisis that had befallen ECOWAS. The former […]
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The Nigerian government is partnering with a United States based hospital, St Jude Global, to combat childhood cancer in Nigeria. The Minister of State for… The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, revealed this when a delegation from St Jude Global, visited him in his office in Abuja, on Monday. […]
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