No fewer than 292 evacuated Nigerians have arrived in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, from Saudi Arabia, the Punch reports. It was gathered that the flight arrived late on Tuesday at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, confirmed this on Wednesday via his Twitter handle. He said a chunk […]
Riyadh – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered up to 9 billion riyals (2.4 billion dollars) to be disbursed to pay part of the wages of private-sector workers to deter companies from laying off staff, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday. The latest measure to tackle the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak followed […]
Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed to have shot down one of its jets. The Tornado aircraft came down Friday in northern Al-Jawf province during an operation to support government forces, a rare shooting down […]
Abuja – Mr Chinedu Onyeizu has commended the Federal Government for signing a government backed partnership with Russia to revamp the nation’s refinery. Onyeizu gave the commendation in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr Mele Kyari, at the […]
Perhaps you are not aware that women in the rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia do not drive cars. The royal decree ordered the formation of a ministerial body to give advice within 30 days and then implement the order by June 24, 2018. Their religious law forbids them from driving cars. But that is about […]
U.S. and Saudi officials have agreed to pursue a hu manitarian pause in Yemen, where fighting by Shi’ite Houthi rebels has forced thousands of pe ople to flee the country. At a news conference in Riyadh Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry and his Saudi counterpart, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubier, said efforts were underway to […]
The Saudi-led coalition has reportedly conducted fresh air strikes on Yemen, just hours after it said it had ended a four-week air campaign against Houthi fighters. The deputy governor of Aden, Nayef al-Bakri, told the press that an air raid targeted tanks used by the Houthis and their allied forces in the southern port city. […]