In-bound Nigerian air travelers returning home to celebrate the yuletide with their loved ones are having difficulty in travelling with their luggage, as foreign airline now imposes outrageous charges on excess luggage and also delay connecting flight time with passengers that have many bags.
THISDAY learnt that passengers with many bags above the accepted kilogrammes by airlines are asked to delay their connecting flights to between three to four hours so that the airlines would be able to transfer the luggage to the flights that would bring them to the airlines’ operational hubs where they would connect their last flight …
The Cross River Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has called on foreign migrants, who are yet to be captured in its database, to do so before the January 2020 deadline.
The Comptroller of NIS in the state, Mr Okey Ezugwu, made the call during the end of year party held at the Command’s headquarters to celebrate the year’s activities in Calabar.
Ezugwu said that the Federal Government gave six months for the migrants to register for free in the NIS database so that they can be accounted for.
According to him, the command cannot guarantee the stay
Operatives of the Border Drill Operations of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have reportedly seized 140 bags of foreign rice at a warehouse in Daura.
The warehouse allegedly belongs to Alhaji Habu Sarkin-Fulani.
Daily Nigerian reports that the owner is a confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Customs operatives, acting on a tip-off, stormed Fegi quarters in Daura, the hometown of the president, and seized the rice.
The bags were allegedly given to the president through Sarkin-Fulani before ban on importation of foreign rice was imposed.
“Alhaji Sarkin-Fulani is …
The committee added that there was an urgent need to review the admission process into the country’s tertiary institutions as Nigeria scored low on the internationalisation index.
The committee, headed by a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, stated these in Abuja on Thursday at the
Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in charge of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Mr Abdullahi Usman, has disclosed that not less than 58,000 visas have been issued to foreigners at the airport located in the Ikeja area of Lagos State.
Mr Usman, in a chat with newsmen at the airport, stated that most of the visas were issued to foreigners coming into the country to invest in the economy, thereby creating jobs for citizens.
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According to him, these visas were given to these foreigners on …
The report also revealed that the third quarter inflow of $5.36billion represented a …
“Here is the letter written by King Leopold II of Belgium to the missionaries traveling to the Congo in 1883 to spread Christianity:
“Reverend Fathers and Dear Compatriots; The task asked of you to accomplish is very delicate and demands much tact and diplomacy. Fathers, you are going to preach the Gospel, but your preaching must be inspired by first, the interest of the Belgium government state.
“The main goal of your mission in the Congo is not to teach the Negro the knowledge of God, because they already know him. They talk and commit themselves to their God. They …
The large group of foreign nationals seeking refuge in Cape Town’s Central Methodist Church are preparing to leave by foot for another country after their hospitality there draws to a close, one of the leaders told News24 on Friday.
“The pastor [Reverend Alan Storey] said we have to vacate the church,” said Jean-Pierre Bassou.
He was speaking to News24 after interfaith leaders were injured when they were charged by some of the foreign nationals who have lived in the church since October 30.
That was the
Foreign transactions in the Nigerian equities market soared by 97.88 percent from ₦616 billion to ₦1.219 trillion in the last 12 years, figures released yesterday by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have shown.
The jump, which is between 2007 and 2018, indicated foreign investors’ preference for the Nigerian equities market.
However, while foreign investors increased their investments, their domestic counterparts’ participation declined in the review period, falling by 66.6 percent from ₦3.556 trillion in 2007 to ₦1.185 trillion in 2018.
In 2018 alone, for instance, foreign transactions accounted for 51 percent while domestic investors accounted for 49 percent. But the …
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Godfrey Onyeama says lack of adequate funding is hampering the ministry efforts to deliver on its mandate.
Onyeama made this known at a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs in Abuja on Thursday. The minister said that funding had been a perennial problem for the ministry and appealed to the National Assembly to help address the problem.
“Our missions abroad get their fund too late and when it comes, they are already in too much debt and cannot function well,” he said.
Onyeama said that the officials of the …
There are growing concerns that the insurgency war in the North-east is being prolonged by massive external funding from fundamentalist groups and foreign nations, investigations have revealed.
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo also added his voice to these concerns Wednesday, saying foreign funding for Boko Haram has risen to 50 percent.
However, in a bid to boost troops’ morale, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered service chiefs to take urgent steps to settle the entitlements of soldiers affected by insurgency across the …
Nigeria’s President Muhammad Buhari Wednesday reduced the number of foreign trips by ministers, permanent secretaries, chairmen of extra-ministerial departments, chief executive officers and directors, to not more than two in a quarter.
“Except with the express approval of Mr President, ministers, permanent secretaries, chairmen of extra-ministerial departments, chief executive officers and directors are restricted to not more than two foreign travels in a quarter,” the office of the Secretary of the Government of the Federation said in a statement.
“They are further required to make their presentation using the existing template and also secure approvals on specific travels as contained …
