Daily Archives: October 15, 2020

Four Nigerians arrested in India for alleged cyber fraud

Four Nigerian nationals and one Indian citizen have been arrested for allegedly duping a former Army nurse of Rs 41.70 lakh after befriending her on social media. The accused identified as Michael Scott Kolain (23), Idu Dollar Okeke (32), Imu Sunday Azubaike (32), Kelvin Neke (29) (all Nigerians) and Sujeet Dilip Tiwari (25) were arrested from Delhi…

Nigeria is only African country barred from 2022 US visa lottery

Nigerians have been barred from participating in the United States’ visa lottery in 2022. This was disclosed in a document titled ‘Instructions for the 2022 diversity immigrant visa program (dv-2022)’ obtained from the US’ website on Thursday, October 15. “In Africa, natives of Nigeria are not eligible for this year’s Diversity Visa program,” the document stated. It stated that Nigeria was barred…

FG directs all civil servants to resume next Monday

The Federal Government has directed civil servants who have not been going to work since March this year when the lockdown declared to curtail the spread of COVID-19 started, to resume for work come Monday, October 19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha; and the National Coordinator, Sanni Aliyu, disclosed this…

ASUU strike is boosting #EndSARS protest – Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige laments

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has stated that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) continous strike is boosting the ongoing nationwide protests of #EndSARS. The Minister who said this at the ongoing reconciliatory meeting between representatives of ASUU and government, also affirmed that they are not trying to replace the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)…