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Nigerians living outside the country now have a clearer path to renewing their passports from home, following the release of an updated step-by-step guide by the Nigeria Immigration Service for its Contactless Passport Application System. The Service published the revised process on its official X handle on Tuesday, urging citizens in the diaspora to…
Six Nigerians who had spent roughly eight months in detention in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire over alleged economic crimes have walked free, ending a quiet diplomatic effort that the Federal Government says vindicates its pledge to shield citizens caught in legal trouble abroad. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the development in…
The Federal Government has dismissed as fabricated a viral list claiming that 136 Nigerians are held in Ethiopian prisons, insisting that only 98 inmates fall under the newly signed Transfer of Sentenced Persons Agreement between Abuja and Addis Ababa. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, made the clarification in a statement issued on…
Hope returned to the cell blocks of AbaSamuel Prison in Addis Ababa as Nigerian inmates erupted in celebration over a newly signed bilateral Prisoner Transfer Agreement between Nigeria and Ethiopia, a deal that clears the way for eligible prisoners to be brought home to complete their custodial terms. The Federal Government facilitated the agreement…
Two hundred and sixty-eight Nigerians evacuated from South Africa following recent xenophobic attacks are due to arrive in Lagos this morning, with the federal government receiving them at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, will represent the federal government in receiving the returnees, according to a…
Alarm is growing over the welfare of 62 Nigerian missionaries held in a detention facility in Uganda’s Adjumani District, as illness spreads among detainees and concerns mount over the conditions in which they are being kept. The Nigerians, identified as members of a Christian missionary group called Life Mission, were arrested by Ugandan immigration…
Former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili has publicly called on President Bola Tinubu to abandon his ongoing three-nation foreign trip to France, Kenya, and Rwanda and return to Nigeria to address the escalating attacks and killings of Nigerians in South Africa. Ezekwesili made the demand through her X.com account on Monday, describing Tinubu’s decision to…
