Brazil has announced Nigeria’s admission as a partner country in the BRICS alliance. In a statement on Friday. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said: “The Brazilian government welcomes the Nigerian government’s decision”. Originally comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, the alliance began to expand after more coun!tries sought to join the group of leading emerging economies. The alliance’s partner-country category …

President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday to attend the 19th meeting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit taking place in the South American country. The Summit will be held from Monday, 18 November to Tuesday, 19 November  2024. “The Nigerian leader’s participation is at the instance of the Brazilian President and current President of …

Brazil’s Supreme Court said Tuesday it was lifting a ban on Elon Musk’s social network X, which was blocked in its biggest Latin American market for over a month amid a row over disinformation. “I authorise the immediate return of the activities” of the social platform, Judge Alexandre de Moraes said in his ruling, after X settled millions of dollars …

The Supreme Court in Brazil, on Friday, ordered the “immediate, complete and total suspension” of operations by X, formerly known as Twitter, in the country, TheGuardian reports. The ban of the social media platform followed its failure to meet a 24-hour deadline which elapsed at 8.07 p.m. local time on Thursday (0.07 a.m. BST on Friday), to appoint a legal …

President Bola Tinubu encouraged the newly appointed Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria, Carlos Jose Areias, to make the creation of direct flights between Nigeria and Brazil a top priority. While receiving the Letter of Credence from the Brazilian Ambassador, President Tinubu reaffirmed his February discussions with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva regarding the issue during the African Union Summit …

A Nigerian woman, identified as Oyindamola Akinyera on Instagram, gave birth to a baby girl on a Qatar Airways flight from Lagos to Brazil on Saturday. Akinyera disclosed this in a post on her Instagram page on Wednesday, explaining that she was traveling with her husband, David, to their “honeymoon and baby-moon” destination and had been cleared for air travel …

A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said. Officials did not say if anyone was killed on the ground in the neighborhood where the plane landed in the city of Vinhedo, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of …

Super Falcons of Nigeria have lost 1:0 to Brazil in their opening game at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Gabi Nunes’s spectacular goal after 38 minutes proved to be the match-winner in the physically bruising contest in Bordeaux. She dashed into the box before she let fly an unstoppable shot into the roof net. Nigeria created some decent chances, but their …

Dangote Petroleum Refinery is set to import a cargo of Brazilian crude, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It said this would add to the large number of overseas barrels of crude feedstock that the Nigerian firm was importing. Indigenous crude oil refiners, including Dangote refinery and modular refineries, as well as local crude producers have repeatedly raised concerns about the low …

The Women’s World Cup will take place in South America for the first time after Brazil was chosen to host the 2027 edition at a FIFA congress Friday marked by debate about the war in Gaza. After the success of Australia and New Zealand last year, FIFA members picked Brazil over a European bid in a push to expand women’s …