Four Nigerians were among 25 defendants convicted on April 24 for their roles in the fraud and money laundering scheme, commonly referred to as “business email compromise”. They included Emmauel Okereke, aka Omo Igbo, 42; Olalekan Bashiru, aka Ola Bash, 36; Jeremiah Agina, 29; and Ademola Balogun, 43 — were Nigerian nationals. According to the...
•Britain’s King Charles III and US President Donald Trump The state visit by Britain’s King Charles III to the US would take place as planned, Buckingham Palace said yesterday, following a shooting at a Washington media gala. The incident late Saturday at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association came less than 48 [&hel...
•Palestinian flag The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information on the leader of the Tehran-backed Iraqi armed group Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), which Washington designates as a terrorist organisation. US officials said in a social media post yesterday that they were seeking information on KSS leader Hashim Finyan R...
•King Charles III and President Donald Trump King Charles III heads to the United States on Monday with transatlantic tensions over the Iran war and the Epstein scandal’s long shadow threatening to intrude on the landmark visit. Both Buckingham Palace and the British government have said the four‑day trip will honour the historic relationship ...
•Artificial Intelligence The White House on Thursday accused Chinese entities of a massive effort to steal US artificial intelligence technology and vowed to take action to prevent the alleged theft. “The US has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI,” White ...
Tensions have sharply escalated in the Middle East as Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the United States of violating prior understandings amid an ongoing naval blockade. In a statement today, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared that control of the strategic waterway had “returned to its previous s...
•Some deported migrants from US Fifteen people have arrived in DR Congo after being expelled from the United States as part of an immigration crackdown, the UN confirmed yesterday, with a local source saying they were from Peru and Ecuador. The arrivals in Kinshasa overnight Thursday to yesterday are the first under the deal to […]
•A Lebanese civil defense worker (R) stands with a resident at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in central Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday Negotiators from Iran and the U.S. prepared for high-level talks with their ceasefire still shaky today, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its [&hel...
•US visa The US Embassy in Abuja has announced the cancellation of all visa appointments, directing applicants to check their emails for details on rescheduled dates. In a notice today, the Embassy said visa operations will continue at the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos. The notice said while American citizen services were available by appoin...
•American flag The United States government may begin automatically enrolling young men into its military conscription register as early as December, scrapping a self-registration system that has been in place for decades. According to the BBC today, the Selective Service System submitted the proposal to the Office of Information and Regulator...
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