SAUDI Arabia has lifted its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African nations which was introduced on December 8 last year in response to the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa.
Like many other countries worldwide, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia clamped down hard on Africa once the Omicron...
Ayo Akinfe
As Nigeria desperately searches around for potential sources of revenue, can someone please tell me why we have not thought about horses? A horse costs about $2,000 on the open market, so just imagine the revenue we would generate if we exported say 3m of them
Apparently there are 240,000 horses in Nigeria with the...
CANADA has lifter the travel ban it imposed on Nigeria and nine other African countries in the wake of the spread of the Omicron variety of the Covid-19 virus pointing out that the restrictions are no longer needed.
Earlier this month, Canada, the UK and Saudi Arabia all introduced severe travel restrictions on Nigerians,...
NIGERIANS resident in the UK are now free to return to the country and isolate for 10 days in their homes after the British government scrapped its controversial red list scheme which singled out 11 African countries for travel restrictions.
This month, Canada, the UK and Saudi Arabia all introduced severe travel...
GERMANY has formally apologised to Namibia and agreed to pay $1.3bn worth of compensation for the genocide it committed against the Herero and Nama people over 100 years ago when it colonised the country.
In January 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero and the Nama's led by Captain Hendrik Witbooi, rebelled...
NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have commenced talks with the Cameroonian and Senegalese football associations about the prospect of the Super Eagles playing friendlies against them during the two June Fifa windows.
Up until last week, Nigeria was billed to play Liberia in a World Cup qualifier on June 6 and...
NIGERIA now has a total of 23.23m people out of work giving the country the second highest unemployment rate in the world according to recent data just published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
According to the NBS, the jobless rate in Nigeria rose to 33.3% in the three months of this year, up from 27.1% in the...
EGYPT has stepped up its ongoing campaign to become Africa's largest solar energy producer by taking out a $27.2m loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to build a new power plant at Kom Ombo along the River Nile.
Last year, Egypt added 581MW to its national solar power capacity, representing an almost fourfold...
BRITAIN has imposed a blanker travel ban on 11 African nations as part of its war against the coronavirus pandemic amid fears that these countries risk importing the dreaded South African strain of the virus.
Under a near-total lockdown until February, the UK is grappling with several mutant strains of the virus and as such...
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