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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
By Taiwo Okanlawon The Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II in collaboration with others have paid for a charter flight to bring back stranded Nigerians in the United States of America and Canada. According to the monarch, the pandemic is a collective fight that requires support both at home and abroad. […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh used bribery proceeds and stolen government funds to buy a mansion in a suburb of Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities allege in a lawsuit seeking to seize the property. The west African nation’s longtime dictator conspired to launder roughly $3.5 million in “corruption proceeds” through the purchase of a lavish […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
(NNP) Famous U.S. Congressman who represented the 5th Congressional District in Georgia, John Lewis, has lost his battle against cancer. The long-term Congressman died on Friday at age 80. Until his death, Lewis was the longest-serving member of Congress from Georgia in his 17th term (34 years) and was the Dean of the Georgia Congressional […]
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Thursday, July 16th, 2020
(NNP) The tell-all book written by the niece of President Trump, Mary Trump, titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” has broken a previous record for the publisher, Simon and Schuster, set by the former White House National Security Advisor, John Bolton, by selling 950,000 copies on […]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
(NNP) Canada and U.S. have agreed to close their shared border for another 30 days, to August 21, after the expiration of the current closure on July 21. With souring coronavirus cases in the United States, both countries agreed it will be in their mutual interest to close the border for an extended period after […]
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Monday, July 13th, 2020
(NNP) As the United States battles the macabre surging of coronavirus infections and leads the world in deaths from the virus, a cross section of U.S. Congress has written to the Canadian government urging it to begin taking measures towards a phased reopening of the shared border. In an open letter addressed to the Canadian […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
(NNP) The United States Department of Homeland Security has added to the headache of international students hit hard by the ongoing pandemic by asking those whose institutions have gone fully online due to coronavirus concerns to leave the country and take their courses from their home countries. The new ruling exempts those who are taking […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
The Federal Government say 322 Nigerians, who departed New Jersey in the U.S. are expected to arrive at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on Saturday. Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama made this known via his verified twitter handle on Saturday. According to him, the returnees are expected to arrive at 2.30 p.m. “Evacuation […]
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Alex Kueng One of the black police officers at the scene of the killing of George Floyd by a white officer in Minneapolis in May has a Nigerian father. Alex Kueng who joined the police largely because he believed diversity could force change in a Police Department long accused of racism, New York Times reported […]
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Dubai Police Thursday said it has extradited Nigerian fraudster Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, to the United States. Also extradited was Olalekan Jacob Ponle popularly known as Woodbery. Both men were arrested by Dubai police last month for defrauding over 1.9 million people, majority of them, reports say, were Americans. “The Director of the […]
