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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said no Nigerian was backlisted by Nigerian Embassy in Switzerland. A press release signed on Tuesday by the spokesman of the Ministry, Ferdinand Nwonye titled: “Re: Defamatory Video against the Nigerian Embassy in Berne, Switzerland” said the attention of the Ministry was drawn to a new series of videos circulated in the social media by a Nigerian citizen resident in Switzerland, Mr. Agbaeze Francis Chinedu, in which he falsely claimed to have been blacklisted by the Nigerian Embassy in Berne, Switzerland. Nwoye said: “The Ministry wishes to state th...

By Olawale Ajimotokan and Michael Olugbode The federal government and the United Nations have launched a $1 billion virtual appeal fund to provide critical humanitarian assistance for 6.5 million most vulnerable people in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq yesterday reiterated the growing need to assist displaced people affected by the crisis in north-eastern Nigeria through the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan. She noted that the need to seek more support for the affected persons, particu...

Agence Francaise De Developpement (AFD) is investing €2 billion in Nigeria. The French Development Agency (AFD) is a development finance institution 100 per cent held by French government. In Nigeria, it is mainly into financing of infrastructure projects (water, energy, transport and agriculture). It also involves in financing related to banking sector, governance and the cultural and creative industries. Speaking to THISDAY, the AFD Country Director Nigeria, Pascal Grangereau, said €2 billion was set aside to be sent on mainly road financing, water sector, improvement in electrici...

By Michael Olugbode The Court of Appeal in Gombe State has ordered that the case involving a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama and four others should be reassigned to another Federal High Court for retrial. The former minister was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Friday, May 29, 2018, before Justice Isa Hamman Dashen of the Federal High Court, Damaturu, Yobe State, on a seven count charge that bordered on money laundering to the tune of N450 million. Bulama was prosecuted alongside a former Commissioner ...

Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has unearthed 650 ghost households during a surprised midnight visit to an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Maiduguri, the state capital. The governor, had around midnight on Saturday showed up at Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, where internally displaced persons from Abadam Local Government Area of northern Borno were being camped. According to a statement by the governor’s spokesman, Mallam Isa Gusau, the governor on arrival at the camp immediately closed the entrance and superv...