•Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu The federal government has postponed the fourth evacuation flight for stranded Nigerians in South Africa after a fault was detected on the aircraft scheduled for the operation. The development was announced today by the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, who s...
•Nosa Omorodion and Wale Tinubu Group Chief Executive Officer of Oando PLC, Wale Tinubu, and Country Director for Nigeria at SLB, Dr. Nosa Omorodion, will feature prominently at AEW 2026 as Nigeria’s energy leadership, indigenous operatorship and technology capacity take centre stage in Cape Town. Africa’s energy future will not be shaped by r...
•Nigerian Senate Despite an emotionally charged debate marked by calls for sweeping economic sanctions and a possible diplomatic rupture with South Africa, the Nigerian Senate today stopped short of endorsing the hardline proposals, choosing instead to pursue a more cautious diplomatic path. Although the chamber unanimously condemned the renew...
•An aircraft conveying Nigerians from South Africa The federal government says another batch of Nigerians is expected to leave South Africa tomorrow amid the renewed wave of xenophobic attacks. Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, disclosed this in a statement posted on her official X handle this morning. “Another ev...
Some Nigerians in South Africa who appeared to have rejected the June 30 deadline to leave the country have taken up arms to defend themselves. Anti-migrant groups have been pushing for the ejection of foreign nationals, a move that has generated global outrage, reports Sunday Trust. Groups such as March and March, who are at […]
•Evacuated Nigerians from South Africa South Africa has ruled out any compensation for Nigerians who left properties behind after being evacuated from the country. The country insisted that assets acquired illegally or located in informal settlements will not qualify for any form of reimbursement. The position was reaffirmed by South Africa’s ...
•Russian aircraft Reports emerging from Mali indicate that a Russian aircraft has reportedly been shot down during intense fighting involving jihadists and Malian government forces. According to preliminary reports, the militants launched an assault on a Malian military position, reportedly capturing several Malian soldiers in the process, rep...
•Jihadists in Mali Jihadists and their separatist Tuareg allies hit Mali with fresh coordinated attacks today, striking multiple towns and a prison, according to the army, residents, and security sources. The fighting, which started around 5:00 am (0500 GMT), came more than two months after the same groups staged attacks against the ruling jun...
•President of Sierra Leone President of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, Julius Maada Bio, has described the inauguration of the new ECOWAS Commission Headquarters in Abuja as a symbol of West Africa’s renewed commitment to regional integration, democracy, peace and shared prosperity. Commissi...
•An aircraft conveying Nigerians from South Africa The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that all the special evacuation flights involving Nigerians evacuated from South Africa are fully paid for by the federal government and at no cost to the returnees. It disclosed that the first batch, which arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Air...
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