•Matthew Bernard and wife, Lynn Warner Oakland City Council in the United States has ordered Nigerian medical doctor Matthew Bernard and his partner, Lynn Warner, to pay close to $1 million in penalties for cutting down dozens of protected trees around their Claremont Avenue property. The sanction follows years of disputes between the property...
•US President Donald Trump The United States Department of State has warned that Americans owing more than $2,500 in child support risk having their passports revoked under existing federal regulations. The department disclosed this in a statement on its official website yesterday, stating that individuals with outstanding child support debts ...
•US President Donald Trump The administration of President Donald Trump will move to revoke the citizenship of naturalised Americans found to have committed fraud during the immigration process, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has said. Speaking in an interview with CBS News correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Blanche defended the admini...
•Gambia-flagged tanker vessel Bili anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas in southern Iran The United States says while it is “not looking for a fight” with Iran over the contentious Strait of Hormuz, it would not shy away from any confrontation. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said today that any Iranian attack on […]
•Doctors at work The United States has reversed a policy that suspended visa processing for foreign-trained doctors, allowing physicians from Nigeria and about 38 other countries to resume their applications. According to a report by The New York Times, the earlier restriction — introduced in January — had halted decisions on visa extensions, ...
•Gas prices above $6 per gallon are displayed at Chevron station in Monterey Park, California The price of oil fell yesterday after Iranian media reported that Tehran had proposed fresh talks with the United States in a message sent via mediator Pakistan. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell briefly more than five per […]
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 ...

