Tag: foreigners
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Coronavirus: Lagos bars foreigners from participating in Regatta, Festival Celebrations
The Lagos State Government has barred foreigners from participating in its forthcoming Greater Lagos Regatta and Festival. The event was earlier scheduled to hold during the Easter period, but tourists from other countries have been restricted from the event, as local tourists, and fun lovers will enjoy the programme. The reason for the restriction, the…
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‘We’ll no longer allow foreigners dictate to us in Africa’
Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Monday said it was unacceptable for outsiders to dictate on how African countries should be governed. The Zambian leader said Africa should be allowed to dictate on how it governs itself instead of outsiders dictating. He said Africa was slowly choosing how its people would be governed and what structures…
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Xenophobic attacks on foreigners an embarrassment to Africa – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday in Pretoria that the wave of deadly violence against foreign nationals including Nigerians in South Africa last month was an embarrassment to the continent. According to details of his speech on the Nigerian presidency’s Twitter page, President Buhari stated this at a town hall meeting with Nigerians living in…
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Arrest, prosecute foreigners engaged in illegal mining, Lawan urges security agencies
…Says mining sector must be revamped, protected The President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has called on security agencies to arrest and prosecute foreigners and anyone engaged in the illegal mining of the country’s mineral resources. Lawan made the call on Wednesday in his remarks after the consideration of a motion titled…
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Death threats: APC backs El-Rufai, says foreigners are welcome but no interference in electoral process
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday said foreign observers are very much welcomed in Nigeria during this year’s elections starting with the presidential polls on Saturday. But it warned that no form of meddlesomeness, intimidation or interference by any foreign country in the electoral process in the guise of election monitoring would be…
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2019: We discovered names of 299 foreigners in Nigeria’s voters register – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Friday said it discovered and removed 299 “aliens” from Nigeria’s voter register. The chairman of the commission, Mahmoud Yakubu, stated this on Friday at the quarterly consultative meeting of the commission with security agencies under the auspices of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES). A copy…
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Buhari signs executive order to prevent foreigners from getting jobs Nigerians can do
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja signed Executive Order 5 to improve local content in public procurement with science, engineering and technology components. The Executive Order is expected to promote the application of science, technology and innovation towards achieving the nation’s development goals across all sectors of the economy. The president, pursuant to the…
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INEC delist 190 foreigners from voters list
As part of its efforts to clean up the voter’s register, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ordered the removal of names of 190 non-Nigerians. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the commission’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, on Thursday in Abuja. The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) had recently…
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Stop sabotaging our economy, Obasanjo warns foreigners
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned foreigners and foreign companies doing business in Nigeria to stop engaging in acts capable of weakening the nation’s economy. Obasanjo noted that majority of the foreigners won’t dare do some of the things they do in Nigeria in their various countries because they don’t want to undermine their country’s…