Friday, October 9, 2026

ADEFEMOLA AKINTADE

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
July 24, 2025

U.S. court postpones sentencing of Yoruba monarch Joseph Oloyede

If sentenced, Mr Oloyede, battling a 13-count fraud indictment, risks being stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported from the country.

Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede
July 22, 2025

Niger ADC chairman withdraws from Kachikwu’s court case against David Mark-led coalition

Mr Kachikwu fiercely kicked against the coalition, going as far as launching a disinformation campaign against the new members.

July 22, 2025

Senate blocks Akpoti-Uduaghan from entering chambers to attend plenary

The embattled lawmaker abandoned her black SUV at the second gate and walked on foot to access the complex.

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan
July 21, 2025

Nigerian visa applicants who submit false information, fake documents will be banned for life: U.S.

The U.S. Mission vowed to pursue criminal charges against those who engage in visa fraud.

U.S. Visa
July 19, 2025

PDP governorship candidate Jude Ezenwafor shot in Abuja

Jude Ezenwafor, PDP governorship candidate has been shot.

Jude Ezenwafor
July 19, 2025

U.S. mandates $250 integrity fee for Nigerians, others seeking non-immigrant visas

The U.S. State Department noted that the integrity fee was refundable provided visitors abide by the rules of their visas.

Nigerians at the Airport