A total of 36 Nigerian migrants, including children, have been deported from Sweden.The migrants were received on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja by officials of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI).International Returns and Reintegration Assistance (IRARA) facilitated the
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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 20 Federal Commissioners in the National Population Commission (NPC), with nine current Federal Commissioners being appointed to a second term in office.A statement issued on Wednesday by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), gave the names of the
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The Federal Government has introduced upgraded e-passport services at specific Nigerian embassies in Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, and Switzerland.The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, officially opened the facilities at the Nigerian Embassy in Rome.A statement by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Adedotun Aridegbe, on Tuesday said the new passport
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Organised labour has announced a nationwide strike, scheduled to commence on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.The union leaders also declared a “total action” against the Imo State Government, in protest of the brutalisation of President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), which is billed to commence as from 12 midnight November
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it won’t count votes in any polling unit where violence occurs in Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa.The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in Yenagoa at a stakeholders meeting.Mr. Yakubu, represented by the INEC National Commissioner supervising Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, and Rivers, May
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The Canadian High Commission in Abuja suspended operations on Tuesday after a fire incident at the commission on Monday.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no staff except security personnel were seen at the high commission, situated at 13010G, Palm Close, Diplomatic Drive, in the Central Business District of
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will launch an electronic Civil registration and vital statistics system and geospatial data repository on Wednesday.The registration system includes all civil registrations such as birth registration, stillbirth registration, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration and death.This was made known by the chairman of the
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are holding an extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to review the modalities of the planned strike following the brutal attack of the National President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero.The meeting will also review the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
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A former federal lawmaker and former vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that showing respect for President Bola Tinubu wouldn’t deter him from referring to the former Lagos State governor as a drug dealer.Datti Baba-Ahmed spoke during an interview
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The Presidency on Tuesday denied reports claiming that Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State “blocked” President Bola Tinubu from releasing Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, described the reports as fake news.In a statement he released, Onanuga explained
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