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United States has reportedly opposed the appointment of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the new Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by consensus, despite cross-regional support for her.…

United States Government has imposed visa restrictions on some Nigerians involved in undermining democracy during the November 2019 Kogi and Bayelsa states elections. The spokesperson for the Department of State, Morgan Ortagus,…

US authorities have arrested President Donald Trump’s former top adviser, Steve Bannon on Thursday and charged him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud of more than $25m. Federal prosecutors accused him and three others of defrauding…

US, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signified interest in repatriating Nigerians who have completed their jail term, pardoned or paroled in their countries. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and…

Federal Government has approved the ninth and last evacuation flight for Nigerians stranded in the United States due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Benaoyagha Okoyen, announced this in a…

Defence Headquarters has said the alarm raised by the US about the infiltration of Al-Qaeda militants into the north-west region of the country is not a new information. At a briefing earlier in the week, Dagvin Anderson, commander…

289 Nigerians from the US have arrived in Abuja as the 4th evacuation flight from Newark, New Jersey. The flight which departed on Tuesday 28th July 2020 had in its manifest 135 males 142 females and 12 infants. BREAKING EVACUATION…

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter as well as video streaming site, Youtube, have deleted videos of an American-based physician, Dr Stella Immanuel declaring hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 ‘cure’. The video was first…

Suspected fraudster, Olalekan Ponle, popularly referred to as Woodberry, held in the US for alleged multi-million-dollar fraud, has been indicted by the grand jury, a group of lawyers empowered to conduct legal proceedings and…

United Kingdom has banned Huawei from its 5G telecom network, reversing a January decision to allow the Chinese tech company a limited role in building the country’s super-fast wireless infrastructure. British phone companies will no…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that foreign students schooling in the United States may have to leave the country or get deported if universities transition to an online-only form of teaching. ICE said this in…

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has said the country is ‘looking at’ banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps over national security concerns. He revealed this during an interview with Fox News’ presenter Laura Ingraham on…

A new study has found that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine helped COVID-19 patients survive better in the hospital. A Henry Ford Health System study, following analysis of 2,541 hospitalized patients, has found…

Major American tech companies including Amazon, Google parent firm Alphabet, and Twitter have decried US President Donald Trump’s ban on employment permits including H-1B visas work visa till year end. President Trump issued a…