NIGERIAN FOOTBALLER HOSPITALISED AFTER RACISM-RELATED KNIFE ATTACK IN LITHUANIA
BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR Chinonso Jeremiah Obi, a Nigerian player with FK Dainava in Lithuania, has been hospitalised following a knife attack on Tuesday. In a...
CANADA PROBES DEATH OF NIGERIAN STUDENT AFTER PLASMA DONATION
Health Canada has launched an investigation into the deaths of two plasma donors at private clinics in Winnipeg, Manitoba, including a 22-year-old Nigerian international student....
ECOWAS MONITORS YENGA BORDER TENSIONS, CALLS FOR DIPLOMACY, RESTRAINT
By: Fasasi Hammad The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has voiced concern over escalating tensions along the borders of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra...
IRAN-LINKED DRONE STRIKE NEAR DUBAI AIRPORT LEAVES TWO GHANAIANS INJURED
By: Fasasi Hammad Ghana Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that two Ghanaian nationals were injured after a drone strike occurred near Dubai International Airport...
FG BEGINS EVACUATION OF NIGERIANS IN IRAN WILLING TO COME HOME VIA ARMENIA BORDER
The federal government has started helping Nigerian people who want to leave Iran, making sure they get safely across the border into Armenia as tensions...
DABIRI-EREWA FLAYS ARREST OF 42 NIGERIANS IN MOZAMBIQUE, REQUEST FOR THEIR RELEASE
Worried by the arrest of 42 Nigerians in Mozambique without any offenses levelled against them, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has...
GUINEA SHUTS DOWN 40 POLITICAL PARTIES, TARGETING KEY OPPOSITION
Agency Report Guinea dissolved 40 political parties including the three main opposition groups in a late-night decree, less than two months after former junta leader...
GADDAFI’S SON MURDER: LIBYA REVEALS THREE SUSPECTS
Agency Report Libyan prosecutors said Thursday they had identified three suspects in last month’s killing of the son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, without specifying...
15 MILITARY PERSONNEL KILLED IN BENIN BY AL-QAEDA-AFFILIATED GROUP
By: Fasasi Hammad Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists killed 15 soldiers in an assault on a military base in northern Benin, the West African nation’s armed forces reported...
MIGRATION STUDIES KEY TO STRENGTHENING DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT – DABIRI-EREWA
By Aishat Momoh. O. The Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has underscored the importance of Migration Studies in strengthening diaspora...