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After Deadly Rhode Island Stabbing. A night out turned deadly after a fight erupted outside a Providence lounge, leaving a University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth football player dead and another injured. Chukwunonso Uzoma Eze, 19, a Nigerian student at UMass Dartmouth, has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of 18-year-old Marvins Antoine of […]

A top American journalist with Cable News Netwrok (CNN), Fareed Zakaria, has analyzed why the recent decision of the United States government to impose immigrant visa restrictions on Nigeria “does not make sense.” The US government had justified the restriction on the basis of national security concerns, claiming the affected countries have gaps in their […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, over an eviction order he gave to Fulanis in Oyo State.   Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in an interview with BBC Hausa.   Shehu said on BBC […]

  The Presidential ambition of the likes of Abubakar Atiku, Aminu Tambuwal and Bukola Saraki may be dead in arrival as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, Thursday in Abuja, declared that the party will not abandon its tradition of zoning political offices in the 2023 elections.   Prof Ayu said […]

The  United State Supreme Court has officially overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court’s five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.  Roe vs Wade, ruling enacted in 1973, guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights.  This most recent case, which was heard by the Court […]

The Lincoln University has announced the suspension of its appointment of a former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, as a visiting professor.   The university made the announcement following Ekweremadu’s arrest for human trafficking for organ harvesting in the UK.   Lincoln recently announced the appointment of Ekweremadu as a visiting professor of […]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered top law enforcement agencies to make information about President Bola Tinubu public.    Beryl Howell, the judge, made the order on Tuesday.   Responding to a motion by Aaron Greenspan, an American who is seeking a reconsideration of an earlier ruling, Howell said protecting […]

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has launched an unprecedented, high stakes counter offensive in Washington, deploying one of the most expensive lobbying operations in Africa’s modern political history to blunt a surging Biafra separatist influence campaign that has penetrated the heart of conservative politics in the United States.   According to confidential FARA filings and […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has held talks with French businessman Vincent Bolloré in Paris on plans to expand investment in Nigeria’s creative and digital economy. The meeting, held during the President’s working vacation, focused on opportunities to deepen the localisation of operations by the Bolloré Group and increase investment in sectors including film, entertainment, fibre-optic […]

The battle over political money ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections has taken a legal turn, with the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) dragging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the Federal High Court in Abuja. SERAP is demanding that INEC publicly disclose whether it has imposed limits on political contributions under Section […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to explain why the President will again not attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York, describing his repeated absence as a matter deserving public clarification. The development follows the Presidency’s announcement that Vice President Kashim Shettima will represent Nigeria and lead […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has celebrated his wife, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, on her 66th birthday, describing her as his “truest friend and confidante” and praising her for standing by him through the different seasons of their lives. In a heartfelt birthday message ahead of her birthday on September 21, the President reflected on their […]