The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has confirmed that a Nigerian injured in last week’s explosion at the Barzan Gas Supply Facility in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, has been discharged from hospital and is recovering. In a statement issued yesterday, NiDCOM identified the injured Nigerian as Jubril Akorede Abdulrahman, saying h...
•Terrorists The United States has designated a Nigerian national and three companies operating in the country as alleged financial facilitators of activities linked to the terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They were designated in the latest action, which targeted a total of three individuals and six entities accused of faci...
•US-based Nigerian, Ayodeji Adeniyi The United States has deported a Nigerian national, Ayodeji Ajayi, following multiple criminal convictions, including domestic violence, as part of its ongoing immigration enforcement efforts. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X account today, say...
•The twins A surgeon has successfully performed a grueling operation to separate 19-month-old conjoined twins who were attached at the skull. Ekiti State born Mercy and Goodness, according to the Daily Mail of London, have made full recoveries and returned home following the complex procedure. The 12-hour surgery took place at Sheikh Khalifa M...
•Late Domingo Michael Adeleke The Nigerian delegation to the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva and the labour movement have been thrown into mourning following the death of labour leader Domingo Michael Adeleke. Adeleke, Chairman of the Lagos State Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), died today in Geneva after a...
A United Kingdom court has remanded a 32-year-old man, Maxwell Oguanaya, in custody over the alleged murder of a 41-year-old Nigerian, Taiwo Ekerin, following an assault in Lewisham, London. The Metropolitan Police disclosed this in a statement obtained by our correspondent yesterday. The police noted that Oguanaya was charged with murder afte...
•Deportees from US Sierra Leone yesterday became the latest African country to receive migrants expelled from the United States under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. A first plane carrying nine West African migrants landed yesterday morning at the international airport just outside Freetown, reports AFP. “We have received nine ...
A United States-based Nigerian, Opeyemi Olujobi, and his wife, Jennie Davidson, are facing up to 50 years in prison following their arrest over an alleged credit card fraud scheme in New York. It was learnt yesterday from a statement by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, that Olujobi […]
A Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Ahanonu, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 56-year-old woman, Nila Patel, in Leicester, United Kingdom. Ahanonu, 24, was found guilty by a jury at Leicester Crown Court on Monday and sentenced on Tuesday for the attack, which occurred on June 24, 2025, along Infirmary Road. According [...
•Oluwatosin Kazeem The United States Department of Justice has filed a civil complaint seeking to revoke the citizenship of Nigerian-born, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, over his role in a massive identity theft and tax fraud scheme. The complaint, filed at a U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Maryland, alleges that Kazeem unlawfully obtained his ...
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