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Muhammed Babandede The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, has announced that henceforth, travellers to the United Arab Emirates must possess confirmed return ticket, negative COVID-19 test result and valid health insurance covering the duration of stay. The Polymerase Chain Reaction test is expected to be taken within 96 hours before departure. Muhammed Babandede, Comptroller General of NIS ChannelsTV The CGI, in a statement by the NIS spokesman, DCI Sunday James, on Tuesday said, “UAE bound passengers are expected to have the following: Confirmed return ticket; confirmed hotel reservation for the duration of stay in UAE or address of residence in the UAE or address of relatives of the visitor playing host while in the UAE; a negative PCR test taken within 96 hrs before departure; valid health insurance, copies of trade licenses in the UAE and Nigeria, if applicable. “The Nigeria Immigration Service advises all UAE-bound passengers to av...

Cambodia police The anti-cybercrime department of the Cambodia Police has arrested two Nigerians, Makcava Femi Wisdom, 28, and Spark Onwa, 33 over an alleged online scam. Also arrested was a 33-year-old Cambodian woman, Thon Sarem. Cambodia police General Lieutenant Neth Savoeun, the director of National Police, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. According to Savoeun, the arrest was carried out by officers led by lieutenant Chea Pove, and coordinated by the Phnom Penh court prosecutor, on October 1.  He said they were brought to the Department of Technology Crimes for processing and later sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for legal action following a complaint. CRIME Internet News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 24HRSNEWS via 24HRSNEWS from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3lnga4M via EDUPEDIA

Four days to the governorship election in Ondo State, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Mr Peter Fasua, has withdrawn from the race and declared his support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. This came a few hours after the Chairman of the SDP, Mr Dele Ogunbameru, led the chairmen of 10 other political parties to announce their support for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Eyitayo Jegede. The development implies that the SDP has partly supported the candidates of the two major political parties in the state and that the party no longer has a candidate for the governorship election. Fasua, while announcing his decision, on Tuesday in Akure, the state capital, said, “I decided to step down and support Governor Akeredolu as I am convinced that my desires and plans for Ondo State will be achieved totally by Governor Akeredolu.” The educationist expressed his readiness to mobilize the structure of his party a...

Members of Ondo State NURTW A non-government organization, Centre for Democracy and Development, (CDD) has warned that the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Union (NURTW) may frustrate the process of conducting a timely, peaceful, credible, and transparent gubernatorial election in Ondo State on Saturday.  CDD, which gave the warning on Tuesday in its pre-election reports, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be watchful of the transport union ahead of the weekend poll.  Members of Ondo State NURTW The report, signed by CDD’s director, Idayat Hassan, observed that the NURTW leadership in the state and the members of the Motorcyclists Union had wielded more influence in the deployment of logistics and voting materials.   The CDD explained that its investigation ahead of the election had shown that the transport unions in the state were partisan and might decide to create “logistic and transport problems” by delibera...

Some returnees from Saudi Arabia Stranded Nigerian women in Saudi Arabia may not be repatriated until around next January, according to a source who is familiar with the activities of Nigerian diplomatic mission. Saudi Arabia had already deported about 400 Nigerian women while as at September, 82 other Nigerians were in deportation facilities, the source said. Some returnees from Saudi Arabia SaharaReporters gathered that the Nigerian embassy in Riyadh is taking care of 11 Nigerians while still awaiting directive from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to identify and provide support to other women in difficult circumstances in Saudi Arabia. “These ladies are scattered all over and to process their matter, at least a staff of the embassy must be there in person. To travel to some parts of Saudi is more than 100,000 naira to go. Hotel, transportation, feeding etc. are not included. Before the matter of the ladies proper comes in,” the source said. Many of the women trav...