London, May 12, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Four hundred Nigerians are to face prosecution for allegedly funding terrorism in the country. This is according to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who stated this on Tuesday during a press conference in Lagos. READ ALSO: EGYPT COMMENCES EXAMINATIONS FOR FIRST-EVER EGYPTIAN ELECTRIC CARS He also reiterated the ...

London, March 30, (AltAfrica)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will leave the country on Tuesday for a medical trip in the United Kingdom, the presidency said on Monday. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu in a tweet said Buhari will proceed “to London, the United Kingdom, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, for a routine medical check-up.” Buhari is embarking on ...

London, March 16, 2021 (AltAfrica)– Nigerian government may review downward the prohibitive prices of cooking Gas in the country, following the submission of a report to that effect by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in Abuja. Despite the government’s much-touted focus on gas as a cleaner source of energy, especially to discourage the use firewood ...

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, ...