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A suppoter tries to display All Progressives Congress (APC) party flag on a pole, during incumbent President Mohammadu Buhari's presidential campaign rally at the Sanni Abacha Stadium in Kano, on January 31, 2019. - Buhari has flag off campaign in Kano, the commercial nerve centre of northern Nigeria to seek re-election at the forthcoming February polls. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

Convention: Protest rocks APC secretariat over ‘imposition’ of candidates

March 5, 2022

The Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) and some journalists have relayed their experiences travelling by road and water from Nigeria to Cameroon for the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).

AFCON: Supporters club, journalists recount travel experiences

January 15, 2022

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) generated N39.06 billion in 2018 as against N35.72 billion it generated as local revenue in 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.

NIS: Algerian, Nigerien nationals planning attacks on Abuja

December 23, 2021

Department of State Services (DSS) has asked Yoruba Nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho to surrender to the nearest security agency.

Why Sunday Igboho is still in detention

September 7, 2021

A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, on Friday, said Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, should have joined the South-West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun.

Sunday Igboho: I’m ready to be repatriated to Nigeria

September 7, 2021

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama has said that the Nigerian Government would use the Forum of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to seek global support fighting terrorism and increasing Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).

Assault: Nigerian envoy to indonesia to return home for consultations

August 10, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Legislative Council meeting debating a Beijing-backed electoral reform in Hong Kong, China, June 18, 2015. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

Hong Kong passes immigration bill, raising alarm over ‘exit bans’

April 28, 2021

ECOWAS Parliament: Official extortion, harassment widespread across West African borders

April 13, 2021

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday said that the parliament passed 2021 in good time to ensure the country maintains the January to December budget cycle started last year.

House speaker: Nigeria’s foreign missions full of embarrassing stories

March 23, 2021

Nigeria immigration covers only 47 of 105 diplomatic missions – NIS boss

March 23, 2021

Kayode Ogundamisi on Twitter under the handle @ogundamisi

Guns, blood and Nigeria’s borderless international borders

March 2, 2021

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has listed some communities inKwara and Niger as notorious for smuggling activities over the years.

Nigeria customs shuts border with Niger Republic

January 17, 2021

The efficacy of the Pfizer Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine (official name BNT162b2) might sustain against the newly-detected mutant strains from the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa, a group of U.S. scientists said in a research paper.

Health workers, police to receive first coronavirus vaccines

January 9, 2021

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Nigeria immigration prevents protest promoter from travelling

November 3, 2020

Entertainer, Folarin Falana aka Falz, has urged the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, to reconsider the terms of punishment meted out to five female officers of the Service.

Falz asks Immigration boss to reconsider transferring officers

May 15, 2020