A United States of America District Judge, Mark Wolf, has scheduled the sentencing of a Nigerian, Yomi Olaleye, for 13 August 2025, after the defendant pleaded guilty to his role in a $10 million COVID-19 fraud. The US Department of Justice disclosed this in a statement on its website obtained on Thursday. PUNCH Online reported on 20 August 2024, that …

The Philadelphia Chapter of the Black Students Union (BSU) has launched a $25,000 fundraising campaign to support the burial of Olatunji Bolaji, a 77-year-old United States-based Nigerian Uber driver who was tragically shot and killed in Centre City, Philadelphia. Bolaji, a husband, father, and grandfather, was fatally shot on 16 April 2025, while waiting for a passenger outside the Byblos …

Philadelphia police are searching for suspects accused of k!lling a 77-year-old Nigerian Uber driver, Olatunji Bolaji and shooting a 22-year-old man who he was picking up. Police said the shooting happened outside the Byblos restaurant and hookah lounge in the 100 block of 18th Street at around 2 a.m. Wednesday, 16 April, 2025. Traditional cuisine ‘It appears that right before …

The United States government has reaffirmed its long-standing position that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. This statement, attributed to the administration of President Donald Trump, was published on the official White House website on Friday. Central to the renewed claims is the assertion that scientific and circumstantial evidence increasingly supports a lab-based origin of the virus, …

Six people have been confirmed killed on Thursday after a helicopter carrying tourists tumbled out of the sky and plunged into the Hudson River just in Jersey City, New Jersey. According to the New York Times, the incident occurred around 3 p.m., with witness and video accounts showing the helicopter, believed to be carrying six people, tumbled over and crashed …

The president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has suspended all tariffs on goods from the United States, a few days after the White House imposed an 18 per cent rate on imports from the African country. On 5 April, Mnangagwa wrote on social media platform X: ‘The principle of reciprocal tariffs, as a tool for safeguarding domestic employment and industrial sectors, …

US President Donald Trump threatens steep additional tariffs on Chinese imports if Beijing does not drop its retaliation plans, adding that Washington is open to negotiations with other countries. ‘If China does not withdraw its 34 per cent increase on top of their long-standing trade abuses by tomorrow, 8 April 2025, the United States will impose additional tariffs on China …

At least 14 people have been killed as tornadoes sweep across several states in the U.S., with forecasters warning that more of the intense, long-lasting storms at a level typically experienced only once or twice in a lifetime could be coming, putting cities in the southern part of the country at risk. According to the New York Times, the Missouri …

French Finance Minister Eric Lombard told AFP on Thursday that the European Union (EU) ‘would do the same’ if the United States (US) proceeds with the 25% tariffs announced by President Donald Trump. Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Cape Town, Lombard noted that while tariff increases are not in the general interest, the EU …

The United States will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo. The memo became public as part of a court filing in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s late January executive order that was aimed at barring military service by transgender …