Tag: Nigerians
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FG to begin evacuation of stranded Nigerians from Ukraine on Wednesday
The Federal Government has announced that it will evacuate stranded Nigerians from Ukraine from Wednesday. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this known during an appearance before Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, adding that the government has concluded plans to air-lift the first batch of Nigerians on Wednesday. The Speaker said the House of Representatives would…
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8 Nigerians bag UK awards for `breaking glass ceilings’
Eight outstanding Nigerians in the UK, who have “broken the glass ceiling’’ have been honoured by the Nigerian-British Business Forum at a high profile event in London. Our ciorrespondent reports that the awards highlight the outstanding performances of some Nigerians in the diaspora, who break the odds to excel in foreign lands. Records show that…
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YPP seeks a stop to recycling of old political leaders
By Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin The Kwara state chapter of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) has called on Nigerians to put a stop to the recycling of leaders who, the party opined, are leading the country nowhere, adding that such leaders as currently constituted “are either too old, too sick or morally too weak”. Addressing…
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VON D-G optimistic Buhari’ll lift Nigerians out of poverty
Mr Osita Okechukwu, the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), has expressed optimism over President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within the next 10 years. Okechukwu expressed this optimism in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Enugu. The VON boss, who was…
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Canada denying Nigerians visas unfairly – Envoy
Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada, Amb. Adeyinka Asekun, says the host country is unfairly denying a lot of Nigerians visas including students. Asekun stated this during a webinar on Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary organised by the mission on Thursday evening. He expressed the hope that the issue would be addressed in the draft bilateral agreement,…
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208 Nigerians return in last evacuation flight from U.S.
Two hundred and eight Nigerian citizens departed New Jersey for home on Thursday night in the ninth evacuation flight from the U.S. Barring any future change in plan, this is the final repatriation flight organised by the Federal Government for citizens stranded in the U.S. due to the coronavirus pandemic. It came barely 24 hours…
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Nigerians living in South Africa seek end to gender-based violence
The Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa (NICASA) on Sunday called for gender equality and an end to all forms of gender-based violence. Coach Oscar Emetuei, National Deputy President of NICASA, made the call in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the outcome of the monthly virtual conference of NICASA’s…
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FG evacuates 325 more Nigerians from U.S. in 6th special flight
The sixth evacuation flight from the U.S. has departed for Abuja and Lagos with 325 passengers on board. In the manifest are 128 males, 174 females and 23 infants, according to the Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen. This brings to 1,739 the total number of stranded Nigerians evacuated from the…
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More Nigerians will benefit from rail stations naming -Amaechi
Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi says more prominent Nigerians will still benefit from the Federal Government’s naming of railway stations across the country. Amaechi, in a statement by his Media Assistant, Mrs Taiye Elebiyo-Edeni, said the late Alhaji Waziri Mohammed would, however, be named after a bigger railway station. The Minister was reacting to the…
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324 stranded Nigerians expected from Turkey
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, says that another batch of 324 stranded Nigerians are air borne from Turkey, to arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday by 9 p.m. The minister made the disclosure on his twitter handle @GeoffreyOnyeama on Sunday. He said that the returnees were being conveyed…