Category: Foreign

Again,UAE suspends flights from Nigeria,four others

The United Arab Emirates agencies, National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Emergency Management Authority (NCEMA) and the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have...

American citizen arrested with firearms in Lagos

COVID-19:Omicron responsible for 73% infection in U.S.

  Omicron is now the dominant variant of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73 per cent of new infections last week, the Centre for Disease Control and...

Biden visits wife,daughter graveyard

President Joe Biden on Saturday commemorated the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter, visiting their graves at the Saint...

Nigeria/UAE diplomatic row: UAE makes U-Turn, concedes seven flight slots to Air Peace

    In what appears as a move to avert a diplomatic row, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday conceded seven slots to Air Peace. It has also granted the...

Omicron:UK has change of heart, to remove 11countries from Red List

  The government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho,...

Search for greener pasture that never was: Soldiers find body with Nigerian passport near Belarus border

  •Thousands of green candles are lit in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, in an action set Polish soldiers have found the body of a man next to a...

Helicopter carrying Chief of Army Staff, wife crashes in India

  An army helicopter carrying India’s top military commander and his family has crashed in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Chief of Defence Staff Gen...

Omicron:Travel ban on African countries apartheid, Says  Adesina

  The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has condemned travel bans placed on African countries over the latest variant of...

Gender Equality:new German cabinet is set to have Nine men,eight women

The new German cabinet is set to have nine men and eight women after Olaf Scholz, successor of Angela Merkel as Chancellor, named the coalition government’s 17...

Omicron: Why UK slamed travel restriction on Nigeria as COVID-19 infection increases by 76 per cent

  The United Kingdom on Saturday night announced the imposition of a travel restriction on citizens of Nigeria following an increase in the number of cases of the...