Britain on Sunday announced a new fast-track visa scheme for top scientists, researchers and mathematicians as it prepares a new immigration system for life outside the European Union. Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed the plan just days before Brexit finally takes place on January 31. Concerns about mass migration were a driving force in the […]
According to TMZ, the NBA star was travelling alongside three other persons when his private helicopter crashed on Sunday. It was gathered that there were no survivors. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s department also took to its official Twitter page to confirm that there was a crash, with five persons feared dead. “Five people confirmed […]
Italian oil group ENI’s Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi could step down if he is found guilty by an Italian court of corruption in Nigeria, he told the Wall Street Journal. Descalzi is one of the defendants in a case over the alleged payment of bribes to facilitate a $1.3 billion oil deal for Nigeria’s OPL […]
General Overseer, the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare said that the newly instituted Western Nigeria Security Network, code-named “Operation Amotekun,” has clearly shown that restructuring of Nigeria into true federalism is inevitable. Speaking in Lagos during a church service, Bakare said that the trend towards regional security outfits is an indication that Nigeria […]
The acting permanent secretary, Jigawa State Ministry of health, Salisu Mu’azu, confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES Sunday morning. The victim, Anthony Etim, said to be a staff of Medicins Sans Frontieres also known as Doctors without Borders, is now being treated at the isolated Infectious disease control unit in Jahun hospital at Jahun Local Government […]
As part of its commitment to implement the national aviation roadmap, President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has acquired six new state-of-the-art aircrafts for the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Zaria. Speaking while inspecting the aircraft in Austria, Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika said the new training airplanes are to be delivered within 3 weeks. “In our […]
Foreign investors bought fewer Nigerian stocks in 2019 than the previous year, stock exchange data showed, after hopes for reforms that could lift Africa’s biggest economy faded. Nigeria has grappled with low growth since recovery from a recession four years ago. President Muhammadu Buhari, who began a second four-year term in May, has pledged to […]
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers was full of praise for match-winner Kelechi Iheanacho after his goal booked their place in the FA Cup fifth round. The Foxes kept their hopes of a cup double alive as the Nigerian scored the only goal of the game in the fourth minute at Brentford. Leicester were missing top goalscorer […]
The Operatives of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Command in Lagos, has apprehended another 9 girls being trafficked. The girls were on their ways to Lebanon, Cairo, Dubai and India on Ethiopian, Peace, Egypt and East Airlines. The service Public Relations Officer, DCI Sunday James made this known in a statement […]
Former national secretary of the All Progressives Congress and Chairman, Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority, George Muoghalu, has said that the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd.), did not promise to hand over power to a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. Muoghalu, who spoke to journalists in Imo State on Saturday, said that […]