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American Politics, Headlines, Sex and Relationship
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Samson Folarin with agency report A Chicago-based Nigerian pharmacist, Olasunkanmi Esho, has allegedly killed his Cameroonian wife, Bourk Esho, and their eight-year-old daughter, Olivia. Olasunkanmi, 42, who lived in Ilinois, Chicago, in the United States of America, was alleged to have also shot himself dead after the incident. It is not clear if the couple had […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 8th, 2018
An immigrant from Ecuador working as a pizza delivery man was detained as he dropped off a pie at a military base in New York, then handed over to immigration agents, local media reported Wednesday. The man, Pablo Villavicencio, was allowed onto the Fort Hamilton military base in Brooklyn on Friday, where he had […]
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Africa, American Politics, Headlines
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
-Punch Nigerians of both sexes have risen in defence of the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, who has recently married the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry. Harry and Meghan were joined together as husband and wife on Saturday. While the new bride’s status as a divorcee was neither hidden from her prince husband nor from […]
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American Politics, Aviation, Headlines
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
A Nigerian mother of two, Queen Obioma, has sued United Airlines, claiming she and her two children were booted from its plane because a passenger complained she smelled ‘pungent’. Obioma said she was traveling fromLagos,Nigeria, to Ontario,Canada, on March 4, 2016, when an airline employee escorted her from the plane before takeoff. The Nigerian said […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Bob Marley’s granddaughter,Donisha Prendergast, 33; and her friends were accused of burglary as they moved out of a private apartment they had rented for the holiday. One of the accused women is a Nigerian-born lady identified asKomi-Oluwa Olafimihan. The three friends were questioned by the police when a White neighbour dialled emergency number 911 […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Sunday, May 6th, 2018
A Nigerian student has allegedly been deported from the U.S. over the large quantity of weaves in her luggage. According to the Twitter user @_Brayz, who shared the story on Saturday, the Nigerian student had been admitted into a university for her masters, only for her to arrive for her programme with weaves. Not only […]
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American Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, on Monday said recent killing of Christians in Nigeria were not acceptable to his government. He said his government and that of Nigeria would be working hard to resolve the problem. Trump said this shortly before he entered into a closed door meeting […]
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American Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85), National Politics, Presidency
Sunday, April 1st, 2018
The Martin Luther King, Jr Centre has distanced itself from a leadership and anti-corruption award to President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari recently received an award of leadership and anti- corruption from a group said to be associated with Martin Luther King. The award was said to be part of the King’s family activities marking the […]
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American Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
• Makes N19b in one year, excess gain hits N4.5 billion • Official says consulate uses market-based exchange rate Though the Federal Government pegged the exchange rateat N305.25 to a dollar, the American Consulate in Nigeria exchanged N400 to a dollar in visa application fees for one fiscal year, until yesterday. This was deduced from […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Sunday, March 18th, 2018
A Senegalese hairdresser has been forced to pay over $16,000 in fines after falling foul of a Tennessee law which outlawed employing workers who did not have a government licence to braid hair. Fatou Diouf has been braiding hair all her life. She works professionally as a licenced natural hair stylist in the US’ State […]
