NIGERIA'S largest commercial airline Air Peace has said it did not receive any official notification about the lifting of flight restrictions by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that was supposed to normalise aviation operations between the two countries.

NIGERIANS resident in the UK are now free to return to the country and isolate for 10 days in their homes after the British government scrapped its controversial red list scheme which singled out 11 African countries for travel restrictions.

WATFORD striker Emmanuel Dennis's chances of leading the Super Eagles attack at the forthcoming African Cup of Nations kicking off next month have increased dramatically following the sacking of head coach Gernot Rohr.

PAN-Igbo secessionist group the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has lashed out at those suggesting Ndigbo should plead to be allowed to produce Nigeria's next president in 2023 saying that Igbos are not beggars.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in Britain has received a significant boost after the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) welcomed six new members into its ranks.

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[1] Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has filed a fresh suit against the Nigerian government accusing it of breaching his fundamental human rights while he is being detained  by the Department of State Service (DSS).

STRINGENT travel restrictions imposed on Nigerians visiting the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could be lifted this week as the British government is planning to scrap its controversial red list with a less Draconian measure involving resting.

NIGERIA Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chairperson Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has called ion Nigerians to emulate the Real Madrid player of Nigerian extraction David Alaba who recently donated N13.3m ($32,373) towards the campaign against open defecation.

NIGERIA is to introduce retaliatory travel bans on several countries as from tomorrow Tuesday December 14  in response to them restricting the entry of Nigerians under the guise of controlling the coronavirus pandemic by banning their airlines from landing.