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Ambassador Joe Keshi is Nigeria’s retired top career diplomat to the United States (US). In this interview, Keshi diagnoses the US reduction, last week, of the five-year visa validity for Nigerians to three months, effective July 8, 2025, stressing the urgent need for Nigeria to negotiate and build a cordial …

Garba Shehu, former spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that Buhari once rejected a proposed N10 million food budget for the State House during his presidency. The disclosure is contained in Shehu’s memoir, ‘According to the President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience’, launched in Abuja on Tuesday. The …

A Nigerian socialite, Abiola Femi Quadri, has been sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in a U.S. federal prison for orchestrating a $1.3 million COVID-19 unemployment and disability fraud scheme. Quadri, 43, who lived in Pasadena, California, was sentenced on Thursday, July 10, 2025, by U.S. District Judge George …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari is dead. His former spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed the development on Sunday afternoon. According to him, Buhari died on Sunday at a hospital in the United Kingdom. Further details surrounding his death are yet to be disclosed punchng

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has showered encomium on residents for turning out to vote in the local government elections held across the state on Saturday. Sanwo-Olu, in a statement shared on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, expressed appreciation to Lagosians for what he described as a peaceful …

The U.S. Mission Nigeria says its reasons for reducing most nonimmigrant U.S. visas in the country, have been misunderstood by people. In a statement shared on its X handle, the Mission claimed that the reduction in visa validity was not a result of Nigeria’s stance on third-country deportees, introduction of …

Staff and students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Ilorin, will henceforth enjoy seamless intra-campus communication  as digital solutions provider, Globacom, has launched  Gloshare and Mobile Community telephony plan for the institution. The Enterprise Southwest Regional Head, Mr Adewale Adiatu, explained at the launch of the two products at the …

The Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, has called for a comprehensive review and implementation of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act so as to combat the rising problem of substance abuse among Nigerians. The Deputy Speaker made the call on Wednesday in Lagos …

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo and affirmed Senator Monday Okpebholo as the Governor of Edo State. The appeal by Ighodalo challenged the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, which announced Monday Okpebholo of the …

Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a Nigerian national is currently on the radar of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over an alleged N460 million fraud. The FBI has filed a civil forfeiture complaint against the Nigerian who is accused of stealing over ₦460 million in cryptocurrency intended for the January …