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A Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea on , minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta. The plane was on a domestic flight with 62 people on board and their fate was not known. The Boeing 737-500, en route to…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that of the 42 countries already rolling out various COVID-19 vaccines which have been cleared for use, 36 are in high income nations. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made…
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Former US President Barack Obama has revealed how opposition figures tried to use the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian “underwear bomber”, against his re-election bid in 2012. In ‘A Promised Land’, the first volume of his…
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The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country's Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalizing so-called "honor killings." Changes…
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China has temporarily suspended issuing entry visa for Nigerians and non-Chinese nationals into its territory and cited COVID-19 as reason. The Asian tiger said on Thursday that its embassy will no longer issue certified health…
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Godfrey Onyeama, the minister of foreign affairs, says the landlord of the building where the Nigerian embassy in Hungary is located is threatening to evict the embassy. Onyeama was speaking while defending the ministry’s 2021 budget at…
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An American citizen abducted last week in Niger has been rescued during a high-risk U.S. military raid in neighboring Nigeria, officials told ABC News early Saturday. The mission was undertaken by elite commandos as part of a major…
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Canada, one of the top destinations of Nigerians, will be bringing in over 1.2 million immigrants in the next three years. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, revealed his country’s readiness to bring in over 1.2 million new…
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US President Donald Trump will spend the coming days in a military hospital just outside Washington to undergo treatment for Covid-19 after he received an experimental and unproven treatment, White House officials said Friday. The…
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Thirteen members of the House of Lords, United Kingdom, have expressed concern over the killings by Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East and Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt region. The upper house of parliament members said the…
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