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Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Lawal Pedro SAN, at a press conference on Monday, said the toxicology report and other forensic analysis conducted in the United States on the late singer, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, alias Mohbad, is out. Pedro said the autopsy report is now with the Lagos State Pathologist, as […]
Continue ReadingNigerian star singer, actor, celebrity, motivational speaker, and politician, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, has relocated to the United States with his family. The boss of Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) revealed the move on his Instagram page, sharing that he will be pursuing a Master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Alongside […]
Continue ReadingKamala Devi Harris simply called Kamala Harris, accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago on Thursday, August 22 before a rapturous crowd, pledging a “new way forward” and warning that her rival, Republican party candidate, Donald Trump “will take America backwards” if he wins November’s blockbuster election. The 59-year-old Kamala delivered a message of unity […]
Continue ReadingThe United States won the XXXIII edition of the Olympic Games on Sunday in Paris, but it was just by the skin of their teeth. They topped the 2024 Games medals table by winning 40 gold medals after the final of the last event of the Games was decided on Sunday. But they only finished […]
Continue ReadingTwo Nigerian teenage sisters have died while swimming at New York’s Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn. Aisha Mohammed, 18, and Zainab Mohammed, 17, both originally from Nigeria but now living in the Bronx, New York, were reported missing on Friday night, July 5, in the area of Stillwell Avenue and Boardwalk West after they were […]
Continue ReadingFour young Igbo siblings said to have been raised overseas have gone online to show off their Igbo-speaking skills. The sisters visited their brother in Maryland, United States, to celebrate his graduation after he earned a Master’s degree in Robotics. The phone was passed to each of the siblings, who all have Igbo names, and […]
Continue ReadingGhanaian couple based in the United States, will spend the next 25-years of their lives in prison for second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old son. Valerie Owusu, and her boyfriend, Emmanuel Addae, both 28 years old and residing in Corona, Queens, New York, had been convicted in March of depraved indifference murder for […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s naira has demonstrated signs of strengthening against the United States dollar, appreciating by N125 to reach N1,275/$1 over the weekend. The new rate represents a 9.8 per cent increase when compared to N1,400 to a dollar it traded at the close of trading activity on Friday. This came as the Senate through its Committee […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square, United States, to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt that began on Wednesday. He had […]
Continue ReadingCharges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the shooting dead of her natural bodybuilder husband, Michael Chidozie, in Houston, Texas, United States, at about 7:35 p.m. on Thursday, March 21. The suspect Keaiirra Shavoiyae Chidozie, 28, was arrested by Houston Police Department (HPD) and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in […]
Continue ReadingPart of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early on Tuesday morning after a column was hit by a large container ship, sending cars and possibly people into the Patapsco River. The Baltimore City Fire Department told CBS News that at about 1:30 a.m., 911 calls started coming in saying a vessel had […]
Continue ReadingUnited States on Monday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior leaders, denouncing what it said was a campaign of rights abuses and corruption. The sanctions, which will block any US-based property and block any unofficial travel to the United States, replace a broader, two-decade-old sanctions programme against Zimbabwe. “The changes we […]
Continue ReadingUnited States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have released pictures of the site of the tragic crash that killed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, and five others. The Airbus EC130 helicopter crashed close to the California-Nevada border near Halloran Springs, killing Wigwe, his wife Doreen, their son Chizi Wigwe and […]
Continue ReadingGrammy Award-winning Nigerian star singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, is billed to perform at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards. In a post on X (Twitter) platform, Billboard revealed that Tems will perform at the event scheduled for March 6 at the YouTube Theater in California, United States. “BREAKTHROUGH honoree @temsbaby will take […]
Continue ReadingFormer United States (US) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100. Kissinger served as America’s top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations. In spite of leaving office in the mid-1970s, […]
Continue Reading25-year-old Nigerian man, Jason Ogbomoh, has been shot and killed in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. Jason was shot several times by a yet to be identified shooter on Sunday, November 12, 2023. His father, Chief Patrick Ogbomoh, is the president of Agbor-USA, a socio-cultural group and apex body for Agbor indigenes residing […]
Continue ReadingA Florida judge has sentenced Aaron Glee to life in prison for the 2020 murders of 19-year-old Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist, Oluwatoyin Salau and 75-year-old Victoria Sims. Glee was supposed to plead guilty in January 2023 but decided to have a trial instead. In June, the 52-year-old Glee pleaded guilty to a first-degree murder […]
Continue ReadingPresidential media aide, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Sunday afternoon, announced that President Bola Tinubu has left Nigeria for the United States to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The event will be Tinubu’s first UNGA meeting since he assumed office as president in May. He is expected to hold bilateral meetings […]
Continue ReadingTalented reality show anchor person, Nigerian star actor, model, singer, voice-over artist and television presenter, Joseph Benjamin, has revealed the reason behind his decision to become a cab driver in the United States Of America. Benjamin 46, who relocated to America in 2016, revealed while appearing on the latest episode of the Teju Babyface Deep […]
Continue ReadingEight Nigerian teachers have been sponsored to travel to the United States (US) to teach Yoruba language and culture in the universities and colleges for one academic session. Vanguard reports that the teachers will travel to the US under the 2023 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA). This was disclosed by the US Missions […]
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