HUNDREDS of Nigerians are believed to be among the thousands of civilians evacuated from the town of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine after the belligerents agreed to a brief ceasefire so they could leave via a safety corridor.
For nearly two weeks now, Ukraine and Russia have been involved in a bloody war that has resulted in...
SEVERAL Nigerians living in Ukraine have rejected the federal government’s offer to return to the country insisting that it was more dangerous to return home than to live in their war-torn adopted country.
As of this morning, nearly 1,000 Nigerians who fled Ukraine to either Poland, Romania, Slovakia or Hungary have been...
OVER 400 Nigerians living on the Ukraine arrived in Abuja this morning as the ongoing evacuation programme initiated to airlift all 5,600 of them got underway with this first batch being flown in from Romania.
Earlier this week, Nigeria's federal cabinet approved a sum of $8.5m as funding for the evacuation of refugees...
NIGERIA'S federal cabinet has just approved a sum of $85m for the funding of the evacuation of Nigerian refugees stranded in Ukraine and its neighbours as the ongoing war in the Black Sea enters its seventh day.
Over the last week, what started out as sabre rattling between Russian and Ukraine has now metamorphosised into...
NIGERIA has finally put in place a plan to airlift its citizens stranded in Ukraine after the House of Representatives and foreign ministry officials agreed to start an evacuation on Wednesday following a meeting in Abuja today.
Ukraine is home to about 5,600 Nigerian students, most of them studying medicine because the cost...
NIGERIA'S former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named as the new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after winning the final selection round this morning with a landslide victory.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, 66, has been involved in a two-horse race for the job alongside South Korea's trade...