Nigeria is a key destination for numerous Chinese manufacturing firms, with clusters located in the southwestern cities of Lagos, Ogun, and Benin City, in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region. However, these Chinese companies too often mistreat, exploit, and abuse their Nigerian staff, who have been subjected to what the Nigerian lawmaker Ndudi Elumelu described as “slavish conditions.” Over...
Read MoreA new guild of artists from Benin City, Edot State capital has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London as a way to encourage it to return the priceless Benin Bronzes that were looted from the city’s royal court by British troops in 1897. Created in the once mighty Kingdom of...
Read MoreThe United Kingdom (UK) registered about 353 Nigerian doctors in the last 100 days, according to data from the General Medical Council – the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK. The GMC licensed at least 353 Nigerian-trained doctors between June 10, 2021 and September 20, 2021....
Read MoreThe Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Tuesday said the inequity in accessing COVID-19 vaccines is unacceptable. Okonjo-Iweala, who spoke after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in New York, said she briefed the president on efforts to mobilise COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to Nigeria. She expressed displeasure over the “lopsidedness” in...
Read MoreThe Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned a retired Chief Superintendent of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Imam Aminu over alleged forgery of academic certificates. The Commission, in a 4-count charge brought before Justice A.O. Abong of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court 18, sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja, averred...
Read MoreNigeria may consider barring unvaccinated person from accessing government facilities, among other measures, if the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy being witnessed continues. The government may take the decision if the government did not notice any significant improvement after the ongoing enlightenment and engagement across the country. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development...
Read MoreThe Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) has said that its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has since recovered and he is due back at his desk after he slumped during an event at the presidential villa on Thursday. A statement by the spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren said Bawa received medical attention after the incident...
Read MoreAt least one million Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Wednesday. Schools have become targets for mass abductions for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed groups. Such kidnappings in Nigeria were...
Read MoreNigeria is seeing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years, with more than 2,300 people dying from suspected cases as Africa’s most populous country struggles to deal with multiple disease outbreaks. This year’s cholera outbreak, with a higher case fatality rate than the previous four years, is worsened by what many consider to...
Read MoreThe visitation panel set up by President Muhammed Buhari to probe the affairs of University of Lagos (UNILAG) aftermath disagreement between the then Governing Council led by Wale Babalakin and the management of the school has indicted the Vice Chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, a Professor of wrong doing. In the final report of the panel...
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