UN judge jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave

James Ingham Role,BBC News 2 May 2025 A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as a domestic slave. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when police discovered she had a young Ugandan woman at […]

Nigerian man faces charges over 5-yr fake marriage to secure Zimbabwe residency

Nigerian man faces charges over 5-yr fake marriage to secure Zimbabwe residency A 52-year-old Nigerian national, Kelechi Godwin, is facing serious legal trouble in Zimbabwe after allegedly orchestrating a five-year fake marriage scheme to obtain residency permits. Prosecutors allege that between 2009 and 2014, Godwin submitted forged documents to the Department of Immigration, including spousal […]

Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations

By Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein The Trump administration has restored the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students studying in the United States who had minor — and often dismissed — legal infractions. The Justice Department announced the wholesale reversal in federal court Friday after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens […]

Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, dies at 88

Pope Francis dies at 88 Pope Francis Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday aged 88. The Argentine pontiff, leader of the Catholic Church since March 2013, spent 38 days being treated for double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital before seeming to recover and leaving […]

Nigerian Uber driver, Olatunji W. Bolaji, shot, killed while picking up passenger – Philadelphia police

Nigerian Uber driver, Olatunji W. Bolaji, shot, killed while picking up passenger – Philadelphia police A 77-year-old Nigerian Uber driver was fatally shot in an ambush while attempting to pick up a passenger outside a hookah lounge in Philadelphia The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15. According to CBS News, the […]

Algeria threatens to expel 12 French diplomatic staff

France said on Monday that Algeria was threatening to expel 12 of its diplomatic staff, adding that it would take immediate reprisals should that occur in the latest flare-up between them. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in a statement that the Algerian authorities were demanding that 12 of France agents leave Algerian territory within […]

Fearing deportation, migrants in US send more money home

Central American migrants in the United States sent home around 20 percent more in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, official data showed this week, a trend economists said reflected their fear of deportation by President Donald Trump’s administration. Nearly one-quarter of the GDP of impoverished Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua is made […]

What can happen to you if you overstay your US Visa?

What can happen to you if you overstay your US Visa? By Adegboyega Adeleye Here is a few key consequences of the breach of immigration rules known as ‘Overstaying a U.S. Visa.’ As a traveler, it is highly expected of you to know the immigration laws of the visiting country so as not to be […]

Russia Vs Ukraine: Trump demands Europe’s largest power station, Zaporizhzhia as part of ceasefire deal

By John Owen Nwachukwu Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed that US president Donald Trump has added more demands to his initial demand for mineral deals. Now the US could own and run Ukrainian nuclear power plants as part of a ceasefire. The Ukrainian president made this development known following his phone conversation with the […]

Trump revokes security details for Biden’s children

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is withdrawing Hunter Biden’s government bodyguards, extending his campaign of political retribution to Joe Biden’s son. Trump announced the same measure against Ashley Biden, the former president’s daughter with former first lady Jill. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump asserted that Hunter Biden’s security detail […]

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