London, Sep. 26, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian government has approved the deportation of 10 Egyptians and seven Sri-Lankans with immediate effect. Mr Sunday James, Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. James said that the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbeshola, ...

London, august 18, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian government is to take “serious urgent steps” including retaliatory actions if possible against Ghana over a viral video showing the forced closure of shops belonging to Nigerian traders in the Accra Nigerian government also said that it may drag Ghana to the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community ...

London, March 28, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The United States Government has announced a 7 million dollars (about N2.6 billion) emergency health and humanitarian aid to Nigeria to help the country in the fight against dreaded coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This is part of a 274 million dollars (N103 billion) assistance package to no fewer than 63 countries affected ...

London, Feb. 28, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The social networking site, Facebook, has agreed to work with the government of Nigeria to check the spread of fake news and disinformation in the wake of the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Nigeria. RELATED: LAGOS CONFIRMS FIRST CASE OF DEADLY CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN NIGERIA The Minister of Information and Culture, ...

London, Feb. 14, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The government of Nigeria has announced a N36m cash prize for any Nigerian that finds cure for coronavirus and Lassa fever. Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is currently ravaging China, with about a thousand deaths so far recorded, while many others in several countries are infected. READ ALSO: LESOTHO, THE TINY ...

 London, Feb. 12, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria has secured a grant of more than $1 million from the U.S. government for technical and financial work on a power plant project in the capital Abuja, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) said on Tuesday. The money will go towards the 1,350 megawatt NNPC-Abuja Independent Power Project plant ...

London, Feb. 8, 2020 (AltAfrica)- The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Nigeria, says it is working towards blocking about 10 billion dollars tax leakages by multinational corporations operating in the country who engaged in illicit profit shifting FIRS Executive Chairman, Mr Muhammad Nami said this at the 2020 Corporate Plan Retreat of the service in ...

London, Feb. 5, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The United States and Nigeria voiced hope Tuesday that the Trump administration would soon lift onerous visa restrictions slapped on Africa’s most populous country, which said it was “blindsided” by its ally. On a previously scheduled visit to Washington, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said he sought more information on President ...

London, Feb. 3, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian government is desperately shopping for about N100bn, the amount needed to reactivate the abandoned fishing terminals in Akwa Ibom State. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, stated this on Saturday after a tour of the facilities located at Akai Ebughu and Ibaka ...

London, Dec. 23, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Nigerian government is planning to meet the U.S. government to discuss areas of concern and resolves is issues that necessitated the country being placed on Watch List over religious freedom. The position came hours after the information minister, Lai Mohammed rejected the US designation of Nigeria as a country that engages ...