Tag: Diplomat
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Kay Laro: The diplomat as humanist – By Owei Lakemfa
I WAS to attend the International Labour Organisation, ILO, Conference for two weeks in 2011 and was late in making accommodation arrangements in Geneva. I turned to Ambassador Ayo Olukanni, then Nigerian Deputy Ambassador in Vienna, Austria if he had somebody that can
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Russian diplomat found dead outside Embassy in Berlin
A Russian diplomat was found dead in October outside the country’s embassy in Berlin, it emerged Friday.
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Assault on diplomat: FG rejects erring Indonesian officials’ apology, wants them sanctioned
The Federal Government has threatened to review its relationship with Indonesia if it fails to bring the Indonesian immigration officials that assaulted a Nigerian diplomat to book. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffry Onyeama, stated this at a briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. Nigeria has also summoned its ambassador to Indonesia to give a detailed…
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Sudan arrests suspected murderer of Nigerian diplomat
The Sudanese authorities have announced the arrest of a woman accused of killing an Immigration Attaché at the Nigerian embassy in Khartoum. Habibu Almu, Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, was found stabbed to death at his home in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum on Thursday last week. In a very short statement, the official news…
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Nigeria identifies diplomat assassinated in Sudan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has identified the Nigerian diplomat found dead on Thursday at his home in Khartoum, capital of Sudan. According to the ministry, the victim is Habibu Almu, an immigration attache. Recall that two security sources confirmed the death and indicated that an investigation was ongoing. “The ministry has received the sad…
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African underdevelopment will continue, says American diplomat
By Festus Adedayo PhD A development economist, Mr. Brian Browne, has said that the economic underdevelopment of Africa and third world nations in general, would continue until there is a change in the economic design of the world which he said was deliberately made to keep poor nations down. He said this at the 90th…