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ADEFEMOLA AKINTADE

August 18, 2025

Newsmax fined $67 million over claim 2020 poll rigged for Biden

Newsmax already paid $27 million and has pledged to pay $40 million over a period of two years.

Newsmax
August 18, 2025

Nigerian visa applicants must include five-year social media history in application forms: U.S

The Mission advised applicants to certify that the information in their visa application was true and correct before signing and submitting.

U.S. visa and Nigeria’s International passport
August 12, 2025

Gunman storms Target store, kills three in Texas

The attack, being the third in two weeks, marked an uptick in gun violence incidents involving mental health patients.

Crime scene
August 9, 2025

Trump asks UCLA to pay $1 billion to restore multimillion-dollar research funding

Mr Milliken said that the withdrawal of funding would not tackle antisemitism.

Trump/UCLA emblem
August 7, 2025
Texas
August 7, 2025

FG places KWAM 1 on no-fly list for holding ValueJet aircraft passengers hostage

Mr Keyamo described KWAM1’s conduct as “recalcitrant” and “totally unacceptable.”

Wasiu Ayinde
August 6, 2025
Donald Trump official portrait
August 5, 2025

Trump moves to slam $15,000 bond on Nigerian visa applications over poor database of citizens

The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria has issued multiple statements slamming the West African nation’s poor database and imposed visa restrictions.

Donald Trump and Bola Tinubu
August 1, 2025

‘Russia, India can take their dead economies down together’, Trump tells Medvedev

“I don’t care what India does with Russia,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care.”

President Donald Trump and former Russian leader Medvedev
July 24, 2025

Bola Tinubu’s U.S. lawyer Oluwole Afolabi gets court permission to appear in FBI records case

In 2023, the FBI decided to release Mr Tinubu’s records, about 2,500 pages, in batches of 500 pages per month. However, an objection by the Nigerian leader stalled the case.

Supreme Court and Wole Afolabi