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Bola Ahmed Tinubu will, on Saturday, Nov. 18, leave Abuja for Berlin, Germany, to attend the G-20 Compact with Africa (CwA) Conference on November 20, 2023, hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The president will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar; the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun; the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite; and the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu. Presidential spokesman, Ajuri …
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The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has disclosed that no fewer than 14,000 Nigerians living in the country risk deportation and he gave reasons for this. Scholz said the mass deportation is due to the spike in the number of Nigerians seeking asylum, and a great number of them are without identification cards. The German Chancellor said the country has seen a significant number of initial asylum applications from Nigerians in 2023, with a comparatively low recognition rate …
Three people have died after a small plane crashed into a residential building in the German city of Wesel, around 35 miles north of Dusseldorf, on Saturday afternoon. Police said the roof of the apartment building caught fire after the microlight plane crashed into it. Witnesses told local media that they saw the aircraft collide with a hot-air balloon shortly before the crash, which also injured a child. The injured child is thought to have been …
More than 1,500 workers at a German meat factory in North Rhine-Westphalia have tested positive for Coronavirus. Health authorities quarantined all 6,500 workers at the Toennies meat plant and carried out mass testing after the outbreak came to light last week. The officials said some 1,553 tests have come back positive, with the regional premier of North Rhine-Westphalia now forced to enforce another lockdown until the end of June. “The new regulations are comparable to what we saw [across the country] in …
Markus Braun, the former CEO of Wirecard, has been arrested in Germany after $2.1 billion went missing at the digital payments company. Munich prosecutors confirmed Tuesday that Braun was arrested on suspicion of possibly having inflated Wirecard’s balance sheet and sales through fake transactions with third parties in order to make the company more attractive to investors and customers. Wirecard acknowledged on Monday that €1.9 billion ($2.1 billion) in missing cash, which made up roughly a quarter of its …
Super Eagles goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye, has explained his decision to commit his international future to Nigeria over his country of birth, Germany. Okoye who was eligible to play for Germany as well as Nigeria had not been to Nigeria, where his dad hails from, for fourteen years prior to his invitation to the Super Eagles for last November’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Benin and Lesotho. Gernot Rohr afforded Okoye the opportunity to …