Another batch of 157 Nigerians, including nine pregnant women, on Friday voluntarily returned from Libya with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Abraham Tamrat, Programme Manager, Migration Management Unit, IOM, Lagos, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Mr Tamrat said the Nigerians arrived at the cargo […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the government’s long-delayed budget into law on Tuesday, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Friday. In May, Nigeria’s parliament passed a record 9.12 trillion naira ($28.95 billion) budget for 2018 aimed at boosting growth eight months before the country’s next presidential election. But it still needs to be returned […]
Nigeria is failing to enforce a much heralded ban on female genital mutilation, activists said on Friday, as they urged the country to sort out a “messy patchwork” of laws and beef up efforts to protect girls. A quarter of women in the West African country have undergone the agonising ritual, which can cause serious […]
The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicked off Thursday. Host country Russia won their first match against Saudi Arabia 5-0 to open the tournament. Friday’s matches include the remaining Group A teams, Egypt and Uruguay at 8 a.m., and all four Group B teams will have their first matches. World Cup schedule today: 8 a.m. – […]
China said on Friday that it will strike back quickly if the United States hurts its interests, hours before US President Donald Trump was due to unveil revisions to a tariff list targeting 50 billion dollars worth of Chinese goods. Washington and Beijing appeared increasingly to be headed toward a trade war after several rounds […]
Saudi Arabia and Iran, among the world’s largest oil producers, are offering competing narratives over oil supply needs for the second half of the year. Divisions among key OPEC producers run deep, with competing perspectives emerging in statements Thursday on whether or not to increase oil production. U.S. President Donald Trump turned again to twitter […]
President Trump complained Wednesday that oil prices are too high and blamed the spike on OPEC, the group of 14 nations that controls a major portion of the world’s supply of crude petroleum. “Oil prices are too high, OPEC is at it again. Not good!” the president tweeted even as prices fell amid the expectation […]
Africa’s teams begin their World Cup campaigns with ambitions to become the first continental representatives in the semi final, yet escaping their respective groups would represent an admirable achievement for the continent’s quintet. Indeed, while at least two of the sides can be realistically confident in their chances of escaping past the first round, the […]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the payment of N500 million legal fees to lawyers for the recovery of N330 billion fines from the Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN). MTN was fined by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in 2017 for breaching directives on SIM registration. The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the […]
The opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa are the only African nation to have hosted the World Cup.African delegates are keen for FIFA to reintroduce a rotation system for World Cup hosting after Morocco failed to land the 2026 World Cup. The North Africans lost out to the triple bid from […]