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50 foreigners from neighbouring African countries, some of them children, have been rescued by the police in Lagos State.   The rescued persons, all foreigners, were kept in a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos, by a gang of job scammers.   The foreigners, who …

A heavy duty truck loaded with sand crushed a radio presenter, Deborah Ohamara, inside a moving vehicle along ever-busy airport road Lugbe, Abuja.   Details of the accident are still sketchy, however, it was gathered that the Ohamara, a staff of Naija Info FM, 95.1 Abuja, was driving from the …

The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering fake employment letters to Nigerians who want to work in the United Kingdom, UK. The IOM disclosed that over 260,000 Nigerians had approached it in 2023, seeking …

Kabiru Musa, the Charge d’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, revealed this significant development in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. Among the repatriated individuals, 159 were Nigerians who had been released from detention facilities across various locations in …

Thousands of workers from Gaza have been trapped in the West Bank since the Hamas attacks on October 7. Their Israeli work permits have been canceled, and they’re deeply worried about their families back home.

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old suspected armed robber and rapist, Johnson Joseph, in the Ondo East Local Government Area of the state.   Spokesperson of the command, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, who disclosed this in a statement in Akure on Thursday, September 14, 2023,    The PPRO said …

In class at the public school in Lasbela, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The low quality of government schools has turned private education into a luxury accessible to only a few. Credit: Mariyam Suleman Anees/IPS by Mariyam Suleman Anees (gwadar, pakistan) Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Inter Press Service GWADAR, Pakistan, Sep 13 …

It must have been a crazy adventure. Veteran Nollywood actor Jim Iyke has narrated the series of events that led to him having to sneak back into Nigeria in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The evacuees include 55 men, 47 women, six children and four infants. The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday evacuated another batch of 112 stranded Nigerians from Libya’s capital, Tripoli.

The Federal Government on Friday, May 5, said it successfully evacuated all Nigerians that were stranded in the crisis-ridden Sudanese capital, Khartoum. This was announced by Dr Sani Gwarzo, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, when he received the second batch of 130 evacuees at the …