London, Jan. 8, 2021 (AltAfrica)-International passport of Another 200 Nigerians are to be suspended for six months and the owners placed on travel ban for flouting the COVID-19 travel protocol. This is the second batch of returnee Nigerians who refused to submit themselves for the mandatory coronavirus arrival test conducted seven days after returning home ...

London, Nov. 24, 2020 (AltAfrica)-UK parliament has rejected the idea to sanction Nigerian government over reported violent clamp down on protesters against police brutality At a debate in parliament on Monday, UK MPs said sanctions against Nigeria could hurt the population. So they called for an independent investigation into abuses and urged the British government ...

London, Nov. 14, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria has commissioned the National Centre For Artificial Intelligence And Robotics. The state-of-the-art facility is for emerging technologies in the areas of networking, research development, information, and communication security The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. Dr Isa Pantami who officially performed the commissioning said that the centre is expected to help Nigeria take ...

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 ...