A total of 128 Ugandans have left to work as guards and truck drivers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Two months after he returned from a medical trip to Saudi Arabia, President Umaru Yar'adua departed the country again yesterday for Saudi Arabia, apparently in a hurry.
The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, on Sunday evening hosted a state banquet in honour of the Iranian leader, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in the country on a dayÂ's working visit. The state banquet was held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel in Kololi.
Ugandan Muslim pilgrims who are in the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Medina for the annual Hajj are still safe despite an outbreak of H1N1 flu commonly known as Swine Flu, Daily Monitor has learnt.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday flewout of the country again to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for another round of medical check- up.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will leave Abuja today for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies.
The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, His Excellency Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday, at 14:15 pm arrived in The Gambia for a day?s working visit.
We wish to welcome the Iranian president, Mahmuud Ahmedinijad to The Gambia, who is on one day working visit to the country, as part of his five-day working trip to Latin America and Africa. During the course of the trip, the Iranian president is scheduled to visit his counterparts and other officials in The Gambia, Senegal, Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia; and is accompanied by an economic and ...
Hundreds of pilgrims for this year's Hajj in Saudi Arabia were at the weekend stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, as their agents could not be found.
Over 200 medical doctors, nurses and pharmacists have been deployed to Saudi Arabia by the Federal Government to cater for the immediate health needs of the intending Pilgrims to the holy land.
Agunwa Anakwe, a lawyer and Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Third Republic, rarely speaks to the media. He is by his own admission taciturn and almost shy, preferring to work in the field and behind the scenes. Often described as ruthlessly efficient and always strategic in planning, he was the Director General of the Chris Ngige Campaign Organisation in 2007.
The top United Nations-African Union official for Darfur has highlighted the role of civil society groups in the search for a solution to the strife that has plagued the Sudanese region, encouraging their full participation in the peace talks that resumed in Doha today.
The Head of the Federal Government medical team to the 2009 Hajj, Dr Ibrahim Kana, has confirmed that 11 Nigerian pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia.
Last October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.
