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The National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) has extended the deadline for the payment for the 2024 hajj. The update is contained in a statement released on Tuesday by the Assistant Director on Public Affairs, Fatima Sanda Usara. The new deadline is fixed for January 31, 2024, instead of the previous date of December 31, 2023. Usara […]
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The United Kingdom Home Office has announced that from Monday, January 1, 2024, it will implement its policy stopping Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing their dependents via the study visa route. The update was disclosed in a post on the microblogging app, X. The Home Office, however, stated that only those on […]
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The Federal Government has granted approval for Nigerians with expired passports who intend to return home for the Christmas and New Year celebrations to do so unhindered. In a letter dated 22nd December 2023 by the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, through […]
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There are reports that the federal government is planning to slash airfares by 50%. The report revealed that FG is working on providing subsidies to airlines in the country to help reduce the high cost of air travel. Festus Keyamo, the minister of aviation and aerospace development, is reported to have held a meeting with […]
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Air Peace has given reasons for the high cost of flight tickets to the South Eastern Nigerian destinations. The explanation follows public outcry on the sudden exorbitant hike with the allegation that it was extorting South-Eastern travellers known to always travel back to their hometowns for the Christmas festivity. In a statement issued on Monday the […]
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An airplane was compelled to perform an emergency landing on a highway before erupting into flames in front of astonished drivers. A four-seater Diamond DA-40 light aircraft slammed into Interstate 26 in Asheville, near Asheville airport, North Carolina, at around 8.15pm on Thursday evening, December 14. The two people onboard, who have not yet been […]
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Reports just in say that airfare to southeastern destinations from Lagos now sell for N533,600. Some travellers adduce the astronomical increase to the Christmas rush when the Igbos are known to return home en mass for house warming, weddings, age grade meetings, town meetings etc. According to the Leadership newspaper, while other routes such as […]
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UK Home Secretary James Cleverly has unveiled new measures aimed at curbing migration into the country. Cleverly said he wants to slash arrivals by around 300,000 a year. To achieve this, he will be making it much harder for foreign workers to bring family members and hiking the minimum earnings needed to secure two key […]
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The United States (US) Embassy in Nigeria has said more than 150,000 Nigerians had visa interviews in 2023. The US Embassy’s Charge d’affaires, David Greene, told reporters on Sunday that the demand for visa applications is more than the supply. The US official said this as it asserted that it is doing everything possible to […]
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Mrs Caroline Adepoju, the Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), has said the service is mapping out plans to open more passport service points to meet the needs of Nigerians in the Diaspora. She said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja that efforts were on to ease […]
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