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Foreign truck drivers have been given an ultimatum to vacate their jobs at the beginning of December or face mass disruptions, TheMercury reports. The All Truck Drivers Foundation issued this ultimatum (ATDF), a group of local truck drivers advocating for 100% employment of local truck drivers. More than 500 members of the ATDF yesterday joined forces with members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), homeless people, hostel dwellers and unemployed graduates to march to the Durban Harbour to protest against the continued employment of foreigners in the freight industry. During the march, the protesters blocked Bayhead and Langeberg roads and closed all terminal gates leading to the harbour. They demanded that South African trucks not be driven by foreign nationals. “The foreign registration trucks must be driven by foreign truck drivers, as happens in other countries such as Namibia. This must be implemented as from December 1. Enough is enough,” r...

Two persons, including a 32-year-old Nigerian, were arrested for allegedly cheating a person in Hyderabad of over Rs 29.74 lakh by promising to send foreign funds for charity work, police said on Monday. The duo, along with the absconding prime accused, contacted the victim in October informing that a foreigner wished to donate US dollars amounting to Rs 4 crore for charity, Rachakonda Commissioner of Police Mahesh M Bhagwat said. Police said the accused discussed with the victim about spiritual matters during their conversation and gained the victim’s trust. Later, one of the accused, posing as an executive of a Foreign Remittance Department, called up the Hyderabad-based person, asking to pay money by citing various charges towards transferring the foreign funds. Accordingly, the victim deposited over Rs 29.74 lakh in various bank accounts provided by the accused during October 27-November 6, police said. The fraudsters switched off their mobile phones following which the...

A Nigerian High Commission representative has met Meghalaya Prison Minister A.L Hek and sought his intervention for the release of 12 nationals arrested for illegally crossing into India from Bangladesh. The arrested Nigerians are languishing in prisons in Meghalaya even after completing their six-month jail terms, Bertrand Tochukwu Ikwuka, who was deputed by the country’s high commission-based in New Delhi, said on Wednesday. Six Nigerians each are lodged in Shillong and Jowai district prisons, he said. “Eight months have passed since March and our friends are still languishing in jails here. We are waiting for orders from the Meghalaya government or the Ministry of External Affairs,” he told PTI. A first-class magistrate in East Jaintia Hills district had on February 13 ordered that the Nigerians be deported to their country and a copy of the order was also sent to the chief secretary and the DGP, Ikwuka, a student leader based in Bengaluru said. Urging the state governme...

Nigeria’s crude oil export may witness a shortfall following the stoppage of production at the Santa Barbara flow-station owned by Aiteo, a Nigerian energy conglomerate. Aggrieved locals, mainly chiefs, elders, women, youths of the oil-producing community, Opu Nembe Kingdom of Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Saturday protested against the oil major over what they described as “unfair treatment” of the community. They issued a notice to quit to the oil company with effect from November 14, 2020, to abandon the oil mining licence (OML 29). The head of chiefs in the area, Oriaingo Oruwari, said their actions were to register their frustration over economic sabotage, strangulation, ecological destruction, and contract racketeering by Aiteo. He said for five years since Shell Petroleum Development Company sold OML 29 to Aiteo without any consideration of host communities’ pending legal and equitable rights, it had been anguish on all sides for the organisations. ...

women protesting Women of Oleh community, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, on Tuesday, disrupted social and commercial activities in the area while protesting the gruesome murder of twelve inhabitants by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. The victims were gruesomely murdered on October 12, 2020, on farmland in Oleh by gunmen suspected to be from the Ozoro community in the same local government area. women protesting (file photo) SaharaReporters Media The women numbering over 5,000 barricaded the ever-busy Oleh roundabout, thereby causing serious gridlock on the Ughelli-Kwale-Asaba road, as commuters and motorists spent several hours on the road. The women, who held placards and green leaves chatting solemn songs to mourn the deceased, called for justice for the 12 victims. The Oleh people, through their president-general, Believe Alakri, had called for a thorough investigation while maintaining that some leaders of Ozoro community, especially the monarch, Anthon...