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Nearly two years after professional motorcycle Kunle Adeyanju made the journey from London to Nigeria, Nigerian Pelumi Nubi, who resides in the UK, is scheduled to attempt just that.On April 19, 2023, Mr. Adeyanju left London and travelled 41 days by motorbike to reach Lagos, while ....
Rwanda will now accept visa-free entry for all Africans.At the 23rd global summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), Rwandan President Paul Kagame made the announcement on Thursday in Kigali, the nation's capital, while promoting Rwanda as a travel destination. ....
According to information provided to The PUNCH, between January 2020 and September 2023, at least 901 men, women, and children perished in boat accidents nationwide.There were over 61 boat accidents during the time under examination.A boat carrying about 85 people reportedly ....
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NACHON), a collection of Muslim men engaged in diverse endeavours, has received praise from The Companion for successfully airlifting all pilgrims registered with the commission to do the hajj in 1444 A.H. (2023) before Saudi Arabia's airspace was ....
The UK has declared that international students are not permitted to bring their families with them. The prohibition was announced by Home Secretary Suella Braverman as a component of the strategy to lower net migration. All international students, with the exception of th ....
Leading Nigerian carrier Air Peace announced on Monday that it was urgently determined to provide free evacuation for Nigerians stuck in Sudan.This was revealed in a statement released on Monday by Allen Onyema, chairman and CEO of Air Peace.He stated that Air Peace would be ....
Nigeria has been added to the list of nations on which health and social care businesses should not actively focus their recruitment efforts by the United Kingdom.In its amended "Code of Practice" for the foreign hiring of health and social care staff, the UK made the modification. ....
Yesterday, Air Peace, the largest airline in Nigeria, reached a new milestone when it began nonstop flights to Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra State in southwest India.According to Air Peace, it will begin with two weekly flight frequencies to Mumbai with the intention of starting up o ....
The pilot informed the more than 200 passengers on board that the Lagos airport was closed, thus the Lufthansa flight LH566 from Frankfurt to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos was diverted to Cotonou, Togo, and eventually Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.Acco ....
According to the Canadian government, tourists who manage to secure legitimate employment offers while in the country will still be allowed to apply for and receive work permits without having to leave.The short-term solution implemented to solve the labor shortfall in the nation was sched ....
A bus carrying Indonesian umrah pilgrims was involved in an accident in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, according to confirmation from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.According to Judha Nugraha, the ministry's director for the protection of citizens and legal entiti ....
Nigerians are no longer eligible for visas, according to the United Arab Emirates' immigration authorities, who further stated that all applications are denied and that application costs are non-refundable.It was learned that a message sent to its business partners in Nigeria, including tr ....
The Emirates A380 touched down in Accra at the Kotoka International Airport over four years ago, and the British Airways A380 is now the second-largest passenger aircraft in the world to arrive in Ghana.On Friday, Solomon Quainoo, a former Ghanaian Emirates pilot, tweeted about the ....
Numerous flights have been cancelled, leaving thousands of passengers across West Africa stuck at airports. This occurred during a 48-hour walkout by the workers of the Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA). The Agency is in charge of overseeing air traffic ....
Pilgrims from the state of Niger have been stranded at Bosso Camp for the past three days, two days before the end of the airlift of pilgrims to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.It was noted that the Saudi Arabian authorities had earmarked Tuesday this week for the completion of the air ....
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the pilgrims would be transported in luxury buses in accordance with COVID-19 protocols. A Madinah Control Center official told NAN that the pilgrims would begin the Mecca ritual from Miqat Hulifa. Hulifa is about nine kilometres from Med ....
The Lagos state government yesterday warned its pilgrims against breaking the law in Saudi Arabia. Deputy Governor Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat urged them to be good ambassadors and to avoid any action that might reflect badly on the state and country. The 1,562 pilgrims and officials will be ....
Following Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, threatening to shut down temporarily tomorrow over the high cost of jet fuel, the federal government has urged the union to give it time to find ways to resolve the issue.The Minister for Aviation made the appeal in a statement sig ....
Nigerian airlines have announced they will go on an indefinite strike from Monday 9 May 2022.This was announced by the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) in a statement released Friday night, as they cited the rising cost of aviation fuel as the main reason for the suspension ....
Nigerian Man Ohanta Patrick ,45, was killed by A drunk driver Davis Slaughter, 29, while he was attempting to cross the bridge on foot by 5:20pm on May 4th ,2022.The pedestrian,Ohanta was returning from a job interview before the crash on Curtis -coleman bridge that led to his unti ....
A former Fort Bragg soldier and a current sergeant are among 11 people charged in a marriage fraud ring, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced this week.  A federal indi ....
Hoodlums activities on the railway track forced train movement on the Lagos-Ibadan Railway section to temporarily stop on Saturday.Passengers aboard the train which departed the Obafemi Awolowo Train Station in Ibadan at 8:30 am on Saturday, were said to have been forced to stop som ....
North Korea released some pictures they say come from their recent missile test. The missile they tested—the intermediate-range Hwasong-12—can reach the U.S. territory of Guam. According to most North Korea observers, the country hopes the tests will bring the U.S. back to the negot ....
Ancient alien researcher Scott Waring had just spotted an Antarctic extraterrestrial base visible on Google Earth when he noticed something truly astonishing nearby… a giant sculpture of the face of Jesus! Skeptics would say this is a prime example of pareidolia but we know the truth. ....
President Joe Biden has called Fox News reporter Peter Doocy to 'clear the air' after he was heard calling the journalist a 'stupid son of a b**ch' on a hot mic following an event at the White House on Monday.The president made the comment at the tail end of an event meant to public ....
Magnetars are extremely magnetic neutron stars, some of which sometimes produce radio emissions. Known magnetars rotate every few seconds, but, theoretically, "ultra-long-period magnetars" may rotate much slower.A team led by astronomers in Australia has discovered a completely new kind of ....
The Kamchatka Peninsula – also known as the Valley of Death – is located in Russia's far east and it is responsible for a variety of mysterious deaths and events.A relatively unknown spot in Russia has been haunted by a variety of unusual deaths for decades.The Kamchatka Peninsula, als ....
A recent Delta flight from Seattle to Shanghai turned back midair due to new pandemic-related cleaning rules at the Shanghai airport, Delta confirmed Monday.Driving the news: The new cleaning requirements, which Delta said were issued on Dec. 21, "require significantly ex ....