The Headquarters of the United States Department of Defence, the Pentagon, has informed the US Congress of the sale of 12 Super Tucano A-29 ground attack aircraft and weapons to Nigeria to fight the Boko Haram insurgency.
Brazil’s President Michel Temer faced new allegations Thursday of receiving millions of dollars in illicit funding during his campaign as then vice president in 2014.
The Dubai-based airline, at a meeting with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), yesterday, said the policy would checkmate growing activities of Nigerian drug cartels on the Brazilian route.
Emirates Airlines has rejected the Nigerian currency, naira, for payment by travellers to Brazil.The Dubai-based airline is rather demanding a credit card mode of payment from passengers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
Today is the opening day of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, the day the world’s elite athletes have been waiting for, where the results of several years of planning and preparation will come to the fore.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been charged in a money-laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors.
