Netherlands
18 May
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Wednesday he had for years deleted messages to his ageing mobile phone to save space, but insisted any important texts had been archived.
24 Apr
Twenty years after Nigeria lost the Bakassi Peninsular to the Republic of Cameroon at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague...
12 Mar
To commemorate International Women’s month, the Wife of Argentinian Ambassador and Head of Mission Spouses in Nigeria, Mrs. Maria Eugenia Herrero, is partnering with Heart for Widows International to empower and give succor to widows. Speaking at the Residence of the Argentinian Embassy, which had in attendance, 18 representatives from different countries of the world,…
25 Jan
Mandatory COVID vaccination, if I may reiterate for the umpteenth time, is illegal. Mandatory COVID restrictions are also illegal.
24 Dec
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte admitted to making communication "mistakes" in handling the pandemic, in an interview published Friday as his country braced for second Christmas under lockdown.
1 Dec
The Omicron coronavirus variant was present in Europe before the first cases were reported in South Africa, new data from the Netherlands showed Tuesday, as Latin America reported its first two cases in Brazil. In the week since the new virus strain was reported to the World Health Organization by South Africa, dozens of countries…
30 Nov
Dutch health authorities said Tuesday that the Omicron variant was present in the Netherlands earlier than previously thought before South Africa had first reported the new strain of Covid-19.
17 Mar 2021
The Netherlands voted on Wednesday in a socially-distanced election that Prime Minister Mark Rutte cast as a choice of the best leader to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
7 Dec 2020
A mysterious metal monolith has appeared on a heath in the Netherlands following sightings of similar objects in the United States, Romania and Britain. According to a spokesman for the Dutch Forestry Commission, hikers found the object on Sunday on private land near the Kiekenberg nature reserve in northern Friesland province. "We know that it…
29 Nov 2020
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has formally received the repatriated Ife Terracotta from his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, in company of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to Nigeria, Mr. Harry van Dijk. Receiving the artifact in his office in Abuja on Thursday, Alhaji Mohammed said the…
27 Nov 2020
Nigeria has received a "priceless" terracotta head believed to be at least 600 years old which was smuggled to the Netherlands, the information minister said.
10 Jul 2020
A UN-backed tribunal into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in a huge car bombing in 2005 will deliver its long-awaited verdict on August 7