A burnt car on a deserted street in Khartoum, Sudan. Photo: AFP The Federal Government will today commence the evacuation of about 5,500 Nigerians, including students stranded in Khartoum and other cities in Sudan. To facilitate the repatriation, the government has released N150 million for hiring 40 buses to convey its desperate citizens from Sudan […]
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People evacuated from Sudan arrive at a military airport in Amman on April 24, 2023. – Foreign countries rushed to evacuate their nationals from Sudan as deadly fighting raged into a second week between forces loyal to two rival generals. (Photo by Khalil Mazraawi / AFP) The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social […]
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• Six-hour economy return-trip between N1.1m and N2.97m • Qatar, European carriers repatriate from I&E window, reopen naira inventories • Air travel goes elitist, exclusive to the rich, needs local capacity – experts say For the third time in less than a month, the rate of exchange (RoE) applicable to foreign airlines has ballooned, hitting […]
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Veteran journalist and one of the most celebrated columnists of his era, Peter Enahoro, popularly known by his pen name Peter Pan, has died. He passed away in London, the United Kingdom on Monday, aged 88. His passage was announced in a terse statement by Ms Bunmi Sofola, also an iconic journalist in her own […]
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President-elect Bola Tinubu waves supporters on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja after a one-month break abroad Ahead of the May 29, 2023 handover, the president-elect, Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria on Monday to a rapturous reception by hundreds of his supporters and well-wishers across the country. According to The Guardian, the president-elect […]
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Photo: Reuters More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from conflict-hit Sudan over the weekend, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday. “It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation,” Borrell told journalists. Borrell said 21 diplomats from the EU’s mission in Khartoum were taken out and […]
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Following warnings of heavier flooding, this year, by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) environmentalists have charged governments to ensure proper utilisation of the ecological funds. They decried that the nation’s ecological funds, in past years, have not been properly accounted for. They, therefore, urge citizens to start asking questions about the funds. The Country Director […]
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About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country. Landlocked and in the heart of West Africa’s Sahel, the country is one of the world’s most volatile and impoverished. Attacks […]
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Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven a “very sharp” rise in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25. Cases in Pakistan last year, after devastating floods left a third of the country under water, rose four-fold to 1.6 million, according to the […]
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Scene of the collapsed building yesterday. Photo: Eniola Daniel • No casualty as LASEMA asks residents of adjoining buildings to vacate • Developers broke seal to continue construction, govt says Barely 24 hours after Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, visited the collapsed site of the seven-story building on First Avenue, Banana Island, another building, yesterday, […]
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