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Sunday, December 10th, 2023
By Motunrayo The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, on Thursday, seized $68,000 from a Nigeria-bound family who lied about the value of cash in their possession. The confiscation was made at the Washington Dulles International Airport when the officers were conducting inspections on outbound passengers departing on a flight to Cairo, […]
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2023
A fellow inmate stabbed disgraced former police officer Derek Chauvin more than 20 times with a shiv, US prosecutors said Friday as they announced charges of attempted murder. Chauvin, whose killing of George Floyd in Minnesota sparked massive racial justice protests in 2020, was attacked in the law library of an Arizona prison last month. […]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2023
U.S. places 18 states on Do Not Travel alert • Tinubu woos investors, urges Nigerians abroad to return home • World can ignore Nigeria at own peril, Tinubu tells UN chief Two days after the United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Wally Adeyemo, visited Nigeria as part of U.S. efforts to strengthen economic ties between both […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
By Geoff Iyatse and Tobi Awodipe The United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo, said a stable naira and strong microeconomic outlook are critical to achieving sustainable economic growth. Adeyemo, who is the most senior official of African descent in President Joe Biden’s administration, said this yesterday during a media interaction in Lagos. Whereas […]
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Monday, September 18th, 2023
The United States military has asked for the public to help in locating one of its F-35 fighter jets after the pilot ejected from the aircraft. F-35 fighter jet went missing on Sunday afternoon when the pilot was flying over the southern state of South Carolina. The pilot, whose identity has not been revealed, ejected […]
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Sunday, September 17th, 2023
Sierra Leone President says US pressured him to interfere in vote President Julius Maada Bio The president of Sierra Leone on Friday accused the United States of pressuring him to interfere in his country’s June 24 election count, a statement in stark contrast to the concerns Washington has leveled regarding the fairness of the poll. […]
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Thursday, August 10th, 2023
U.S. threatens to invade Niger Republic, reveals plan for coup leaders By Enioluwa Adeniyi Niger coup leaders have been warned by the United States of America that it may be pushed to be involved militarily if the country’s military rulers fail to return power to President Mohamed Bozoum. The US acting Deputy Secretary, Victoria Nuland, […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
By Richard Ogunsile The United States (US) Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have revealed when they will release Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s criminal and immigration records to the public. In a court document sighted by journalists, the FBI and US State Department cited ‘unusual circumstances’ for the inability to release the records […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2023
By Biodun Busari The woman who fatally shot Ajike Owens, the Nigerian mother of four in a housing complex, in Ocala, Florida on Friday has a history of harassing children in the neighbourhood, according to her neighbours. The killer woman who has been detained in the Marion County Jail, identified as Susan Louise Lorincz, was […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2023
Father and graduating son die in US school shooting A man and his 18-year-old graduating son, Shawn Smith were killed in a shooting at a high school graduation ceremony on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus, in the United States on Tuesday. Tameeka Jackson-Smith told NBC that the shooting that killed her 36-year-old husband, Renzo Smith […]
