The United Kingdom (UK) has announced the resumption of work and study visa applications processing in Nigeria. The British High Commission had on December 6, 2021, suspended visa applications from red list countries, including Nigeria. But a...
The United States has removed Nigeria from its list of countries restricting religious freedom. It also blacklisted Russia, China and eight other countries “as countries of particular concern for having engaged in or tolerated ‘systematic, ongoing,...
Popular televangelist in the US, Kenneth Copeland, who served on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory panel in 2016, is begging viewers to send him cash to support his private jet so he won’t have to deal with...
United Airlines announced Friday that new service between Washington, D.C. and Lagos, Nigeria will begin November 29 (subject to government approval). The airline will operate three weekly flights the U.S. to Nigeria “This new flight to Lagos...
One of Wizkid’s hit songs, Essence, has become the “most Shazamed” song in the United States. Shazam is a software application that is used to identify music, movies, based on the sample that is played. It was...
US film company, Will Packer Productions, and Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife Studios have acquired rights to make a movie based on Bloomberg’s article about Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, titled Bloomberg article, “The Fall of...
Nigeria has received four million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the United States as it steps up efforts to battle a third wave of infections. The doses, which arrived on two planes on Sunday,...
United States lawmakers are holding down a proposed sale of attack helicopters to Nigeria over its Human Rights record. The lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have reportedly delayed clearing a proposed sale of 12...
Citing insecurity, the United States Embassy in Abuja says it is scaling down its public operations for one week, effective from yesterday. Services affected include routine American citizen services and the education advising centre It said in...
A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say. After a gun battle in the capital Port-au-Prince, 17 were detained, some at the house they...