December 2021

An appeal court in Morocco’s capital city of Casablanca on Thursday approved the deportation of a Muslim Uyghur activist to China despite strong fears that he would be tortured in the Asian country over his beliefs.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Amnesty International has warned that 33-year-old computer engineer Idris Hasan is at ‘grave risk of facing torture’ in China.

The 33-year-old computer engineer was arrested sometime in July this year at his arrival at Mohammed V international airport in Casablanca from Turkey, where he lives and works.

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Rwanda on Thursday detected its first six cases of the fast-spreading Covid-19 Omicron variant, prompting the government to escalate pandemic measures, including shutting down nightclubs and extending quarantines for international travellers.

Africa Dai;y News, New York gathered that visitors will now be required to quarantine for three days instead of the current 24 hours, the government announced, after recording six cases of the Omicron variant in travellers and their contacts.

‘A Covid-19 PCR test will be taken upon arrival and an additional test, taken on day three and on day seven at own cost, from the arrival date,’ the …

The Nigerian Senate, on Thursday, approved $5,803,364,553.50 and a grant component of $10 million under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Local and Foreign Debts.

Chairman of the Committee, Clifford Ordia, in his presentation, said the $2,300,000,000 would be sourced from the World Bank, $2,300,000,000 from the German Consortium, $90,000,000 from the Islamic Development, 786,382,967 from the China Exim Bank, $276,981,586.50 from the Bank of China, and $50,000,000 from the International Fund for Agricultural Development. 

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has uncovered an additional $72, 870,000 million linked to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The sum was said to have been discovered in an account domiciled in Fidelity Bank Plc.

Consequently, a former Managing Director of the bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo, has been arrested.

Okonkwo, who is currently the Chairman of First Bank Holding, alongside others, had earlier been grilled over a sum of $153million and $115million by the Commission.

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While all the $153 million was recovered by the EFCC, …