•US, Iran and Israel war Escalating hostilities in the Middle East have sent shockwaves through Nigeria, grounding pilgrimages, disrupting travel plans, rattling the oil market and prompting anxious calls from Nigerians abroad. Besides, some members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) – the Iran-inspired Shiite organisation founded in the...
•NIDCOM boss, Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission,(NIDCOM) has come out to clarify that Nigerians living in Iran have not sent any distress message to the commission in the wake of the missiles being sent by the United States of America and the state of Israel against Iran. This came on a day the […]
•Boat mishap Twelve Nigerians have been rescued after a Nigerian tugboat, LEO, carrying 18 persons sank in South African waters late Saturday night, with one person confirmed dead and search and rescue operations still ongoing for five others who remain missing following the maritime incident. In a press statement signed by Special Assistant o...
•A cross-section of panels at Citizens’ Townhall The national debate over the Electoral Act 2026, recently signed into law, continued yesterday, with Nigerians expressing divergent views over the new legislation that will serve as a legal guide for the conduct of the 2027 general elections. The issues identified in the new law took centre stag...
•Adewole Adebayo The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s emergence is not a blessing but a painful lesson from God to Nigerians. Speaking at a Ramadan Iftar organised by the AAFAQ Foundation in Kano on Saturday, Adebayo said, “Four years ago,...
•Telecommunication mast Africans are increasingly online, but awareness and practice of digital safety remain low, Afrobarometer telephone survey across seven African countries shows. The survey distributed by APO Group on behalf of Afrobarometer reveals that in the average across Angola, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanz...
•NNPP chieftain, Buba Galadima A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has warned that Nigerians could react strongly at the ballot box if current economic and security challenges continue, drawing parallels with the 2015 electoral defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Galadima spoke last night while appeari...
•Ukraine President Zelensky, EU Ambassador Gautier Mignot and Russian President Putin  On the fourth anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, the EU ambassador to Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, voiced concern over what he described as a disturbing development — Russia’s recruitment of Nigerians and other Africans to fight in the war. Mignot, speaking ...
•Deportation The United States Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has intensified its immigration enforcement operations, announcing that 19 more people have been added to the list of Nigerians awaiting deportation from the US. The latest update brings the total number of Nigerian nationals processed for removal to 113 in just the last 21 d...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in collaboration with the British High Commission in Abuja, has alerted Nigerians about the rising threat of global job recruitment schemes funneling victims into cyber‑enabled scam operations across Southeast Asia. At a landmark survivor‑centred event held on Monday i...
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