A total of 384 Nigerians stranded in Saudi Arabia on Thursday arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The returnees arrived via Air flight B773 at about 1:10 pm local time and were received by officials including those of Nigerians In Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM). They include 300 males, 83 females, […]
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American philanthropist and Microsoft Co-founder, Bill Gates, says Nigeria does not need to spend too much on acquiring COVID-19 vaccines but should rather focus more on revitalising the weak and underfunded health sector especially the primary health care centres. Gates said this during a chat with journalists on Tuesday. This […]
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Chelsea legend Frank Lampard broke his silence Monday night, more than 10 hours after he got the boot as coach of the club at which he made impression as a world class player.In a statement on Instagram, Lampard expressed ‘disappointed’ to be sacked by Chelsea, when he was hoping to […]
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Frank Lampard has been sacked by Chelsea football club after just 18 months as head coach of the club.He is to be replaced by Thomas Tuchel, the former PSG coach, who was also recently fired by the French giants. In a statement, Chelsea attributed his sack to his results and […]
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Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Tunisian cities on Saturday to protest police repression, corruption and poverty, following several nights of unrest marked by clashes and arrests. Saturday’s protests come as the North African nation struggles to stem the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has crippled the economy and […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will be closing its international airport to nearly all flights, as the government races to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under control. The entry of highly contagious variants of the virus, coupled with poor enforcement of safety rules in ultra-Orthodox communities, has […]
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Real Madrid coach, Zinedine Zidane has tested positive for COVID-19, a day before the team’s La-liga clash with Alaves. This was made known by the Spanish club in a statement on Friday. After successive defeats in the Spanish Super Cup and Copa del Rey, Zidane is under immense pressure and […]
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Relatives of passengers of the Indonesian, Sriwijaya Air passenger plane which crashed into the sea minutes after take off on the 9th of January 2021, scattered flowers at the crash site on Friday, in memory of their loved ones. According to media reports, the memorial, which saw dozens of relatives […]
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At least 32 people have been killed and 110 wounded in a rare twin suicide bombing that tore through a busy area of central Baghdad on Thursday morning, Iraqi officials said. Ministry of Defence Spokesperson Yahya Rasool told Al Jazeera one of the two perpetrators lured a crowd of people […]
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Newly inaugurated US President Joe Biden has reversed a Donald Trump policy that restricted the granting of immigrant visas to Nigerians. In January 2020, Trump had expanded curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria. At the time, the US government said the policy was designed to tighten […]
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