NIGERIA Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chairperson Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has condemned the Polish government for detaining Nigerians and other African students who fled to their country from war-torn Ukraine in search of refuge.
Speaking in Abuja, Hon Dabiri-Erewa expressed displeasure over the development, saying it was...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has dumbfounded political commentators by making a surprise return to Abuja this morning after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) 50th anniversary in Kenya.
Over the last three days, the president has been in Nairobi the Kenyan capital from where he had been expected to fly...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is due to arrive in London later this week for a medical check-up and period of recuperation that is expected to last two weeks amid concerns that he mart be facing another minor health scare.
Since assuming office in 2015, President Buhari has been plagued with health concerns and has to visit his...
NIGERIA'S foreign minister Geoffrey Onyeama has been summoned to appear before the House of Representatives to discuss the poor state of the country's foreign missions with many of them struggling to remain functional.
Debating the matter in a motion moved by Hon Kassim Maigari from Taraba State, the House called for...
INDONESIA has defended its immigration officers who recently attacked Nigerian diplomat Abdulrrahman Ibrahim saying it was the envoy who was the aggressor during the recent altercation in Jakarta.
On Saturday August 7, Mr Ibrahim was involved in a major scuffle with Indonesian immigration officials inside a vehicle. In a...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is due to arrive in London later this evening to participate in a global education summit on financing called Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and to touch base with his medical doctors.
In what will be a working visit as well as a medical check-up, the president will participate in the...
BRITISH minister for Africa James Duddridge has expressed concern about the growing insecurity in Nigeria saying the violence unleashed by Boko Haram sect and its allied groups poses a great risk but added that the UK is willing to help combat the menace.
According to the Institute for Economics and Peace's 2021 Global...
PRESIDENT Patrice Talon of Benin Republic has announced plans to step up preparations to allow his country to merge with Nigeria as part of a regional alignment programme aimed at forming more economically viable nation states.
Nigeria and her western neighbour the Republic of Benin, share cultural, linguistical and...
FORMER finance minister and African Union (AU) special envoy on coronavirus Dr Okonjo-Iweala has promised that Nigerians and other Africans will have access to the new Covid-19 vaccine as from the end of January.
Earlier this year, Dr Okonjo-Iweala was appointed by the AU as its special envoy to solicit international support...
NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has applauded the resolution by the British parliament to sanction any federal government official found to be responsible human rights violations during the recent Lekki Toll Gate massacre.
On November 23, the UK House of Commons debated the Lekki Toll Gate...