Tag: UNITED STATES
COVID-19: US issues new directives for travellers
The United States has issued new directives for passengers aged two years and older who wish to enter the country amid the ravaging COVID-19...
Two Nigerian lawyers appointed to probe rights abuses in US
The African Bar Association (AFBA) has appointed two Nigerian lawyers as technical advisers to the International Commission of Inquiry into alleged systemic racist police...
US-based doctor dies of COVID-19 in Nigeria
A Nigerian medical doctor Edward Gbemudu based in the United States of America has died of COVID-19 complications during a visit to Nigeria for...
Ex-Osun senator Bayo Salami dies in US
Senator Bayo Salami who represented Osun Central in the Senate between 1999 and 2003 has died after a brief illness.
The former lawmaker died on...
Biden appoints Nigerian-American woman Osaremen Okolo into COVID-19 team
United States’ President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-American Osaremen Okolo as a member of his COVID-19 Response Team.
Okolo, daughter of Nigerian immigrants, was named...
Remains of Nigeria’s ex-ambassador to US take final journey home
The remains of Nigeria’s immediate-past ambassador to the US Justice Sylvanus Nsofor have left the host country on his final journey back home.
His casket,...
Apostle Suleman reacts to claim of receiving N90m coronavirus loan from...
President of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide Apostle Johnson Suleman has reacted to a claim that he received $188,252 (N90.3 million) from the US government...
MC Oluomo’s daughter graduates from US university, gets job
Nofisat Akinsanya, daughter of the chairman of Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo,...
Nasarawa governor travels to US for medical check-up
Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has travelled to the United States for medical check-up.
Speaker of the State House of Assembly Ibrahim Abdullahi on Monday...
Nigeria’s former ambassador to US Sylvester Nsofor dies at 85
Nigeria's former ambassador to the United States Sylvanus Nsofor has passed on aged 85.
Nsofor died on Thursday according to reports.
Chairman of the Nigerians in...