•Rotimi Oladimeji The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has arrested a previously convicted Nigerian, Rotimi Oladimeji, in an operation targeting illegal immigrants across the country. The ICE, in a statement shared on its X page yesterday, disclosed that Oladimeji was ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution before he...
•Yoruba monarch crown A new twist has been added to the conviction of Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede, by a United States of America court over $4.2million COVID-19 fraud, following the alleged disappearance of an ancestral crown and beads, among other royal paraphernalia at the palace, amid moves to replace the embattled king, reports ...
•Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours “Camp 57,” a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, with Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (L) on September 3, 2025 Hundreds of South Koreans were detained during a major US immigration raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the state ...
Boeing is launching a recruitment drive to find “permanent” manufacturing workers to replace US union employees who went on strike last month, the company said yesterday. The company is posting job requirements for the roles and plans a job fair on September 16, Boeing vice president Dan Gillian said in an email to staff seen […]
•Photo(Front L-R): Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, China’s President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un China defended today its decision to invite the leaders of Russia and North Korea to World War II commemorations, which President Donald Trump accused them of using to conspire against the United States. Trump wrote a testy T...
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson has announced that a Nigerian, Daniel Chima Inweregbu, age 40, pled guilty on August 21, 2025, before United States District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown to a more than $405,000 romance scam. A statement by the Public Information Officer, United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, U...
•US visa The United States Government has announced plans to shorten the validity period of visas issued to international students and foreign journalists. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the proposed rule would cap F visas, which allow foreign students to study in the U.S, at a maximum of four years. At present, [&hell...
•Indian rupee (L) and US dollar currency notes US tariffs of 50 per cent took effect today on many Indian products, doubling an existing duty as President Donald Trump sought to punish New Delhi for buying Russian oil. Trump has raised pressure on India over the energy transactions, a key source of revenue for Moscow’s […]
•Jailed Oba Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede Nigerian traditional ruler, the Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the United States. Oloyede, 62, who holds dual U.S. and Nigerian citizenship and resides in Medina, Ohio, was on August 26 handed 56 months in prison […]
•Brazilian Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski Brazil said yesterday that the United States had revoked the US visa of the country’s justice minister, the latest official to be punished by Washington over the coup trial of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. The US State Department has yet to confirm the measure, which was announced by...

