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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 …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) over its alleged failure to account for ₦825 billion and $2.5 billion meant for refinery rehabilitation and other oil revenues. The suit, filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos and …

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 …

Chelsea will meet Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup, marking a renewal of one of the most frequent rivalries in international club football. This will be the ninth encounter between the two sides in official UEFA and FIFA competitions, but notably the first outside of …

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 …

Halima Buba, Managing Director of SunTrust Bank Nigeria Limited, has been remanded in Kuje Correctional Facility, FCT, Abuja following her arraignment over an alleged $12 million money laundering scheme. Buba, alongside Innocent Mbagwu, the bank’s Executive Director and Chief Compliance Officer, were docked before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal …

The executive chairman of Oshodi-Isolo local government and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Otunba Kehinde Almaroof-Oloyede has been declared winner of the local government election Otunba Almaroof-Oloyede polled 64,300 votes to be declared the winner by the local government election returning officer, Joseph Olorode. Candidate of the Peoples …

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 …