• USA

    AGF, NDLEA shelve Kashamu’s extradition over pending suits

    The Attorney- General of the Federation and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have agreed not to extradite Sen. Buruji Kashamu to the United States until the determination of all court cases on the matter. Kashimu had gone to court to stop the two from extraditing him to face trial ...

  • Nigeria

    Customs impound rice worth N6.8m

    The Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command, on Tuesday, said its officers seized 941 bags of rice estimated at N6, 830,791 being smuggled into the country. The new Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Sarkin Kebbi, said in Lagos that the seizure was barely a month after he assumed duty at the ...

  • Nigeria

    NCS Western Marine Command impounds N6.8m rice

    The Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command, on Tuesday said its officers seized 941 bags of rice estimated at N6,830,791 being smuggled into the country. The new Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Sarkin Kebbi, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the seizure was barely a month after he assumed ...

  • Nigeria

    New envoy asks UN for help in returning Nigeria’s stolen assets

    Nigeria’s Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the UN Office and Other International Organisations in Geneva, Amb. Audu Kadiri, has sought the assistance of the UN towards expeditious return of the country’s stolen assets stashed abroad. Spokesperson in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Clement Aduku, on Tuesday in a statement said Kadiri made the call ...

  • Nigeria

    Police to partner Schools on Safety Initiative

    The Police Command in Enugu State is to collaborate with stakeholders to implement the Federal Government’s Safe School Initiative in primary and secondary schools starting from June. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Ebere Amaraizu, made the plan known in an interview with the News Agency of ...

  • Russia USA Nigeria

    Trump team lack positive shifts- Russia

    Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov on Tuesday said that Moscow was concerned that contacts with the Donald Trump administration had not yet led to positive shifts in the relations between the two nations. Russian news agencies quoted Ryabkov as saying that as nuclear powers Russia and the United States ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria Ranks Fifth Largest Insurance Market In Africa

    By ZAKA KHALIQ, Lagos Despite the low insurance adoption, penetration and acceptance in the country, Nigeria’s insurance industry is ranked fifth in Africa. The top five insurance markets on the continent are said to have overall market share of 85 percent of premiums across Africa. General-Secretary of the African Insurance ...

  • Nigeria

    Midterm Assessment: Nigeria’s Economy Under PMB’s Watch

    By BUKOLA IDOWU, SHOLA BELLO, ZAKA KHALIQ, KAYODE TOKEDE, Lagos And MARK ITSIBOR, MBAKAAN KWEN, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure as the president of Nigeria started at a time that the country stared recession in the face. It is however in the public courts with two sides dissipating energy on ...

  • Cina

    Zo krijg je een panda van de Chinezen

    Ze zijn dik, pluizig en kauwen de hele dag op bamboe. Toch hebben de schattige en luie Chinese reuzenpanda’s in Rhenen belangrijke taken. Als politiek instrument van de Chinese overheid moeten ze het imago van China verbeteren en het liefst belangrijke handelscontracten binnen slepen.

  • Brasile

    MP quer explicações sobre presença de seguranças privados em ação no PA

    A Procuradoria Federal dos Direitos do Cidadão, do Ministério Público Federal (MPF), espera que as investigações a cargo das autoridades paraenses respondam porque vigilantes contratados pela empresa de segurança que prestava serviços aos donos da Fazenda Santa Lúcia, em Pau D´Arco (PA), acompanharam os policiais destacados para cumprir 16 mandados ...