•A suspect, John Chibuike Two Nigerian nationals were arrested in separate incidents in India this week for cocaine trafficking, local authorities reported. In Hyderabad, a Nigerian woman was arrested yesterday after excise officials seized 7.5 grams of cocaine from her possession. According to the Times of India, the district task force of th...
•Nigerians in Diaspora Some Nigerians in India have raised the alarm over what they described as increased racial profiling and brutalisation by the Indian police. They lamented visa regularisation challenges and high renewal fees, which they said had made life unbearable in the Asian country, reports Saturday PUNCH. Some of the residents, who...
•France PM Emmanuel Macron and Indian PM Narendra Modi France warned today it could block the disbursement of climate funds to India under a recent trade deal with the EU if New Delhi does not up its game in fighting global warming. France’s ecological transition minister Monique Barbut told our correspondent the European Union should [&hellip...
•Tinubu and some ambassadors-designate India and other yet-to-be disclosed countries have declined to accept some of President Bola Tinubu’s recently posted ambassadors-designate due to diplomatic policies that discourage receiving envoys from administrations with less than two years remaining in office. High-ranking officials in the presidenc...
The Government of India deported at least 2,356 Nigerians between 2019 and 2024, with removals quadrupling from 339 in 2021 to 1,470 in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. This is according to data obtained by our correspondent from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs. The figures were drawn from three separate MHA annual reports for which Nigeria-specifi...
A global artificial intelligence summit kicks off in New Delhi on Monday with big issues on the agenda, from job disruption to child safety, but some attendees warn the broad focus could diminish the chance of concrete commitments from world leaders. While frenzied demand for generative AI has turbocharged profits for many tech companies, anxi...
An Indian state’s deputy leader was killed along with four other people today after their chartered aircraft crashed in the country’s west, officials said. The plane carrying Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister, crashed in an open field at about 8:44 am (0314 GMT) while landing at the state’s Baramati airport, the civil aviation mi...
Two Nigerians, Chukwudi Okafor, 31, and Samuel Eze, 34, have been arrested in India following the alleged killing of their friend, Emeka Christian, in Pune’s Pisoli area over a dispute linked to a romantic relationship. India Today reported that the 40-year-old victim was beaten to death after an argument broke out during a late-night gatherin...
India has committed $450 million in humanitarian assistance to help Sri Lanka recover from the devastating damage caused by Cyclone Ditwah, foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said today on a visit to the country. The cyclone killed more than 640 people when it swept across the South Asian island last month, causing floods and landslides ...
A passenger train smashed into a herd of elephants in India’s northeast, killing seven animals on the spot, officials said today. No travellers were injured in the accident in Assam state, home to more than 4,000 of the roughly 22,000 wild elephants in India, reports AFP. Senior Assam police official V.V. Rakesh Reddy told our […]
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