A MINISTER has claimed giving hundreds of millions of pounds to Nigeria every year in aid is an “absolutely tiny” amount. Junior aid minister Nick Hurd told MPs the £250million-a-year fee given to the so-called “corrupt” African state was a drop in the ocean because its economy is so large. He...
The largest aid convoy so far in Syria has reached a besieged rebel-held town in the centre of the country. Sixty-five lorries are delivering food and medicine to about 120,000 civilians in and around Rastan, in Homs province. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent convoy is the first to reach...
THE Government has been slammed for giving billions to African countries which plan to have astronauts in space by 2030. Figures released last week show that Nigeria received £1 billion of foreign aid intended to combat starvation and poverty from the UK since 2010. But the West African country has already sent a...