•An injured Thai soldier being evacuated following clashes along the Thai-Cambodia border, yesterday Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia spread today to new parts of their contested border as the toll rose to 10 killed and more than 140,000 civilians fled the violence. The two countries have blamed each other for the renewed clashes over t...
•Terrorists The Government of Chad has announced the immediate closure of its border with Nigeria, attributing it to security concerns following reports of alleged U.S. military plans over Christian killings and genocide in the West African sub-region. Military sources in N’djamena, which houses the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task...
•Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (C) A Ugandan activist who was arrested and held “incommunicado” in Tanzania after attempting to attend a treason trial for an opposition leader has been found at the Ugandan border with “indications of torture”, a rights group said today. Ugandan activist and journalist Agather Atu...
•Bobrisky The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has addressed the arrest of popular social media figure and convicted cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, better known as Bobrisky. In a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, NIS spokesperson Kenneth Udo confirmed the incident, revealing that Bobrisky was detained at Seme Border while attempting to leav...
Niger Republic has reopened its border with Nigeria in the regions of Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi and Dosso. The land border between the two neighbors was closed following the coup d’état of July 26 and the ECOWAS sanctions that followed, reports Daily Trust. In a radio message broadcast on social networks, yesterday, the Nigerien Ministry of [&hell...
•Customs officers The newly appointed Customs Area Controller (CAC), Kebbi Command, Comptroller Iheanacho Ernest Ojike at the weekend, reopened the Kamba border in Kebbi State for international trade. The reopening according to Mohammed Tajuddeen Salisu, a Superintendent of Customs and Public Relations Officer, Kebbi Area Command of Nigeria Cu...
The federal government has threatened the possibility of opening the borders to cement importation if Nigerian cement manufacturers refuse to play ball on cement reduction in the country. It also said that although it is aware of the macroeconomic challenges facing the country some of the key components of producing building materials, especia...
•Border post Commercial activities in border communities of Katsina, Sokoto, Borno and Zamfara states have collapsed following the decision of the Federal Government to close all the country’s borders with the Niger Republic in the wake of the military takeover of power in the Francophone country on August 3. Checks on the border communities i...
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