UAE
13 Mar
The Umuaba Community in Imufu, Enugu-Ezike, Igbo-Eze North Local Council of Enugu State, has urged President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly to intercede on its behalf to secure the release one of its kinsmen who has been in solitary confinement in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for six years without trial.
12 Jan
The Federal Government, through the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has unveiled plans to up the skills of artisans in the country to boost Nigeria’s economy through skilled manpower and labour export.
4 Dec
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has cleared the air on the number of delegates the Federal Government sponsored to the ongoing Climate Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), otherwise called COP-28.
18 Nov
Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is stretchered onto a plane to Abu Dhabi -– one of the Gaza war's first evacuees to the United Arab Emirates for urgent medical treatment. In the dead of night at Egypt's El Arish airport, near the Rafah border crossing from Gaza, the…
15 Oct
As I return to my serial on The God of Big Things this week, I would like to appeal to my compatriots to continue to see hope in Nigeria.
11 Sep 2023
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently participated at the G-20 summit, a meeting of the world’s largest economies which took place in New Delhi, India.
6 Aug 2023
The United Arab Emirates has sent military vehicles and other security gear to Chad in support of anti-"terrorism" efforts and border protection, the oil-rich Gulf state said on Sunday.
16 Jun 2023
Sony's latest Spider-Man animation will not hit the silver screen in the United Arab Emirates, a cinema company said Friday, following backlash over an expression of support for transgender rights.
13 Jun 2023
Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch has released a new video of a United Nations worker abducted 16 months ago in the war-torn country, the SITE Intelligence Group said.
17 May 2023
An Emirati man has been extradited from Jordan to the UAE, state media said on Wednesday, 10 years after he was sentenced in absentia for alleged affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood. Khalaf Al Rumaithi, a joint Emirati-Turkish citizen according to rights groups, was described as a "terrorist" by the United Arab Emirates' official WAM news…
18 Apr 2023
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are working to reopen their long-closed embassies "in the coming weeks", an official said Tuesday, as a wave of rapprochement sweeps the turbulent Middle East region. The two countries re-established relations in January 2021, after the UAE took part in a nearly four-year Gulf blockade of Qatar, but despite…
31 Mar 2023
A Russian bank hit by US sanctions will be forced to cease operations in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates' central bank said Friday.