Sudan’s interim authorities have cancelled more than 3,500 passports issued to foreign residents by the government of ousted president Omar al-Bashir, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. Sudanese media reported that the great majority of those affected were citizens of Arab countries, particularly Syria, who had paid Bashir aides a going rate of 10,000 dollars
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Justice J.K Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced six foreigners and a Nigerian to seven years imprisonment for oil theft. A statement released by the Economic and Financial Commission EFCC, says the foreigners which include two Pakistanis, Mohammed Ejaz, and Nasser Khan; two Ukrainians; Oleksandr Nazarenko and
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The Defence Headquarters said on Thursday troops of Operation Silent HEAT had rescued 13 foreigners who were abducted in Lome waters in the South South part of the country. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the operations of the military across the country. Enenche said Nigerian Navy
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