NaijaWire

Archive for October, 2008

Lagos -General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has given details of a humiliating experience he was once subjected to at an international airport while visiting a foreign country.

The respected cleric narrated how he was given a thorough search at the airport as soon as he tendered his Nigerian passport, saying the immigration officials became more suspicious of him when he claimed to be a pastor from Nigeria.

Pastor Adeboye, who spoke with a team from Zero Corruption, a magazine published by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), lamented that corruption has virtually destroyed the image of Nigerians outside the country, regretting that most foreigners now regard all Nigerians as fraudsters.

Ibadan - Government College Ibadan (GCI), a school built on the rocks and is the pride of many Nigerians home and abroad, will soon undergo a much needed facelift according to old boys of the famous Nigerian secondary school, based in Apata Ganga, Ibadan.

The Chairman of Stabillini Visnioni Nigeria Limited, Dr. Wale Babalakin, and other old students of the GCI, made this resolution to rehabilitate the dilapidating structures of the 79-year-old school.

Babalakin, who spoke with our correspondent after he received a merit award from his Alma Mata on Saturday in Ibadan, lamented the deplorable condition of infrastructure in the school and pledged to work with others to address the situation.

Abuja -The United Kingdom has revealed new stricter rules to safeguard the visitor route into the country from abuse and keep Britain an attractive place for business.

This comes at the heels of Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Hassan Lawal, asking developed countries to relax  conditions for the issuance of visas, to ease  problems encountered by  Nigerians wishing to travel abroad.

According to a statement released by the British High Commission in Abuja, yesterday, these tough rules were published by the British Government and it states “that those wishing to come to the UK on business for up to six months must apply for a dedicated new business visa.”

Abuja - Nigeria will no longer be hosting next year’s FIFA U-17 World Cup, due to the present global economic crisis which according to the Federal Government has made it impossible for government to solely finance the tournament.

Making this known after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, was the Information and Communication Minister, John Odey who said the hosting of the World Cup was no longer on the Yar’Adua’s government’s priority list.

U.N - A United Nations Refugee Agency report has confirmed that about 4,816 Nigerians applied for asylum in 44 countries in the first six months of 2008.

The report, which said the statistics were those available as at October 9, 2008, said the applications were made in the 27 member-countries of the European Union as well as the United States, Iceland, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.