Gani Fawehinmi Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone
Thomas Sankara While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas!
Nigerians in the Diaspora have welcomed the decision to change the date of the next general election, claiming the decision has portrayed Independent National Electoral Commission as being realistic in it’s assiduous task of putting the nation on the right electoral footing.
Nigerians in the Diaspora are calling on the Federal government to retain its earlier position on the issue of Nigerians in the Diaspora voting in the next year’s election. The former INEC Chairman Maurice Iwu said late last year that arrangements were on for trial elections in about three countries across the world including United Kingdom and America in 2011.
London is agog this weekend as Nigerians in hundreds storm the venue of this year’s Nigeria Arise Awards in the capital.
The much awaited Nigerians in the Diaspora Day comes up on Sunday in Minna Niger State. The Niger state Capital has been agog with activities as guests have been arriving from many destinations of the world including Europe, Asia and America to participate. Diaspora Day is a yearly event and this year’s event has been [...]
Former Military leader and 2011 Presidential dream lord, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida is urging Nigerians to put behind the issue of the death of Dele Giwa, the former Co- Founder of Newswatch Magazine and former Editor of Sunday Concord Newspaper.
Frequent reports of harrowing experiences of Nigerian immigrants in different parts of the world have become an embarrassment to the country. One of the most recent of these is the revelation that no fewer than 20,000 Nigerians are languishing in prisons and detention centres in the United Kingdom (UK) over immigration offences.
Chairman of the Board of Trustee of Nigerians In the Diaspora Organisation (NIDO), Dr Alistair Soyode has spoken of attempts by some disgruntled members to discredit the World- wide Organisation as well as blackmail its executive members.
There are speculations that not less than ten out the 18 recently executed foreigners in Libya are Nigerians as Nigerians in the Diaspora are calling for a major investigation to established how many Nigerians were executed recently in Libya.
In all, the executed 18 were believed to be foreign nationals from Egypt, Nigeria and Chad.
Last Sunday another spate of maltreatment was meted out to some Nigerians living in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. This latest incident, like some past ones claimed the life of a Nigerian, while 32 other foreigners, mostly Nigerians were arrested.
Nigeria’s High Commissiner to the United kingdom, Alhaji Tafida has hinted that soon, the Embassy would embark of home visits services for the elderly and disabled.
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