BENJAMIN OMOIKE WITH AGENCY REPORTS Anger in Greece over poor railway safety grew on Thursday, as authorities released audio in which a train driver involved in one of the country’s worst train crashes in recent years was told to ignore a red light. Demonstrators poured onto the streets after the head-on collision between a passenger […]
Turkey has sent 1,000 police officers to its border with Greece to stop the pushback of thousands of migrants trying to reach Europe. “We have deployed 1,000 fully equipped special force police as of this morning to prevent the pushbacks,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in Edirne, a city near the border. Soylu claimed Greek […]
Greek border police fired tear gas Wednesday morning at hundreds of migrants trying to enter from Turkey, while Athens authorities were moving on their plan to rapidly deport people still arriving on the Aegean islands. TV reports showed police shooting tear gas canisters across the border fence, a regular occurrence since Turkey stopped blocking migrants […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says stronger diplomatic ties with Hellenic Republic and Republic of Cuba, will bolster Nigeria’s ongoing efforts at diversifying the economy, improving global competitiveness and repositioning the country to play more leading roles. In a statement, in Abuja on Tuesday, Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesman, said Buhari stated this when he received […]
A Greek woman who recently returned home from northern Italy has become Greece’s first coronavirus case and she is being closely monitored, the health ministry said on Wednesday. No further information was immediately available on the previous movements of the 38-year-old woman, though one Greek media outlet, Proto Thema, said she had travelled to Greece […]
U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Saturday announced closer cooperation, especially militarily, with Greece after meeting with the country’s prime minister during a trip to Athens. Pompeo and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said the NATO countries will also strengthen their ties in the energy and economic sectors. “We’re opening a new chapter in our history,’’ said […]
The Iranian ship (Adrian Darya-1) has been denied help by Greece on the suspicion of shipping oil to Syria, prior to this denial the said ship was earlier detained in Gibraltar. In the words of Deputy foreign minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis as he spoke to broadcaster ANT1 that his country was “not willing to facilitate the […]
Greece has banned fat tourists from riding on donkeys after campaigners said the animals were being left with spinal injuries. The move comes after shocking images emerged of donkeys climbing the narrow steps of the Greek island of Santorini holding obese holidaymakers. Lawmakers in Greece have since pledged to do more to help the animals. […]
The Seaport Terminal Operators Association of Nigeria (STOAN), has commended the Federal Government for its foresight in concessioning terminal operations at the nation’s seaports saying the move has made Nigerian ports a model for countries like Greece, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Ghana This is even as the Chairman of the association, Princess Vicky Haastrup, urged […]
The EU has pledged 2billion (£1.45bn; $2.15bn) to ease what it calls Greece’s “humanitarian crisis” – echoing a term used by Greece to describe the results of its financial crisis. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the money would be spent on growth and “social cohesion”. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed the move, stressing […]
Greek representatives started talks with official international creditors in Brussels on Wednesday, taking the first step toward an agreement on the reforms Greece must implement to unblock further aid as Athens runs out of money. It is the first such meeting between Greece and its official creditors since the new, left-led government in Greece took […]