Nigerians will pay N107,500 for academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) examinations from September 2023, according to a statement on Thursday by the British Council. The United Kingdom requires citizens of any country willing to relocate to the UK for work or study opportunities to take the IELTS. The current price stands between N80,000 and N90,000 in Nigeria. The …

The Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) has ordered its standby force to restore constitutional order in the Niger Republic. ECOWAS President, Omar Alieu Touray, made the declaration while reading the resolution of ECOWAS on the Niger coup at the ECOWAS Extraordinary meeting in Abuja on Thursday. The sub-regional group also called on the African Union, AU, partner countries, and …

A Romanian national kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in 2015 in Burkina Faso, has been released after eight years in captivity, the Romanian government announced on Wednesday. Iulian Ghergut, now 47, was taken on 4th April 2015, while working in a manganese mine in northeast Burkina Faso, near the border with Mali and Niger. “He has been released and is …

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after a shipwreck last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citing four survivors brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa Wednesday. Their metal boat overturned during bad weather during the night of Thursday to Friday after setting off from the Tunisian port of Sfax, said a joint statement from the UN …

Nearly two weeks after the military took over power in Niger Republic, the coup plotters have announced former Economy Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as the Prime Minister. A spokesman for the military junta made the announcement on television late on Monday night. Zeine was Minister of Economy and Finance for several years in the cabinet of then-president Mamadou Tandja, …

Thousands of citizens called for Angolan President Joao Lourenco to step down, during a rally in Luanda on Saturday, organised by the country’s largest opposition party to commemorate its late leader. UNITA, a former rebel group turned political movement that lost a disputed election last year, has said it wants to initiate a parliamentary process to remove Lourenco from office, …

Prominent Liberia politician, Sheikh Al-Moustapha Kouyateh has warned President Bola Tinubu Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) not to adopt military intervention in ongoing Niger Republic political crisis. Kouyateh, who was a presidential aspirant of the Liberia First Movement in the buildup to the West African country’s 10th …

South Korea’s presidential office on Friday called an emergency cabinet meeting and ordered the deployment of air-conditioned buses and freezer trucks after hundreds of scouts at a massive jamboree suffered heat-related illnesses. The situation even prompted scouts from the United Kingdom – reportedly the largest attendance group at around 4,000 – to leave the campsite early. The Korean peninsula is …

The military junta in Niger Republic has cut off ties with Nigeria after the efforts of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) to resolve the ongoing impasse failed. ECOWAS had issued a seven-day ultimatum for the reinstatement of President Mohamed Bazoum to avoid possible clash with the junta. But President Bola Tinubu sent a high-powered delegation to the country …

Power supply from Nigeria to the Republic of Niger was stopped on Wednesday, as sanctions against the neighbouring country by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) increases. Impeccable sources in Nigeria’s power sector confirmed the development, while the AFP also reported on Wednesday that Nigeria had cut its electricity supply to Niger. On Sunday, ECOWAS, led by Nigerian …