The United Kingdom Border Agency has suspended scheduled deportation flights for failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers, following strong protestations by the MDC-UK.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will this week commence the extradition of sacked former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, who has been accused of laundering over 10 million pounds while heading the bank.
The ECOWAS ministers in charge of security have called on member states to recognise the INTERPOL passport and approve visa wavers for members. This was disclosed in a communiqué signed by the Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Emmanuel Ojukwu, and read by the Minister of Police Affairs, Dr Yakubu Ibrahim Lame, at the end of a one-day joint meeting of ECOWAS Ministers of ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it will begin the process of extraditing former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Chief Erastus Akingbola, this week.
With an estimated $10 billion inflow of foreign exchange from its citizens abroad this year, Nigeria yesterday emerged the sixth highest destination of remittances from citizens of developing nations in the Diaspora.
Severe erosion over many years in Anambra, southeastern Nigeria, has cut off or destroyed hundreds of homes, businesses, farms and schools, prompting the governor to call for a state of emergency in the area where he says thousands of people now risk being displaced.
Home Affairs Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has welcomed the arrest of three Egyptians at the department's office in Springs.
It was Langston Hughes the great African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that once asked in his 1951 collection just what happens to a dream deferred. "Does it dry up/like raisin in the sun? Or maybe it will "fester like a sore/and then run?"
IN the wake of the African Union Meeting on IDPs (internally displaced people) in Kampala it is our expectation that the real issues surrounding IDPs will not be swept under the carpet of niceties, political posturing and sloganeering.
The United Nations refugee agency has rushed relief items to help tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last month.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday declared as illegal, Federal Government's deportation of the Vaswani brothers.
The government of Liberia will on Monday, November 2, 2009 formally launch the New National Biometric Passports at the Ministry of foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill.
Government has issued a fresh flood alert to thousands of people near River Tana.
Over 400 Nigerians, who were in the ceded Bakassi Peninsula have returned to Nigeria with tales of agony as a result of inhuman treatment meted out to them by the Cameroonian gendarmes.
LUSAKA High Court Judge Florence Lengalenga has asked the Lusaka Central Prison officer-in-charge to liaise with the Ministry of Home Affairs and facilitate the quick deportation of prohibited immigrants.
