Six Nigerians have been deported from the United States of America (USA), having been charged with various crimes in the country. It was gathered that their deportation was in connection with a decision by the US government to deport at least 3,000 Nigerians, who had been involved in various crimes in the country. The deportees arrived on Wednesday via a …

The operators of the helicopter that claimed the life of former Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, alongside his wife, son, and three others in February 2024, may soon face criminal charges in the United States, aviation industry operators and experts have confirmed. The helicopter, an Airbus EC130B4 operated by Orbic Air, LLC, under Title 14 …

United States President Donald Trump has declared two new national holidays in the country. Trump took to his Truth Social media account on Monday night to announce his plans to celebrate the end of World War I and World War II in the United States. The 78-year-old noted that the two national holidays are 11 November and 8 May. The …

Canada was voting Monday for a new government to confront a trade war and annexation threats by President Donald Trump, who pushed for the United States to absorb its neighbor as polling stations opened. The Liberal Party, led by new Prime Minister Mark Carney, looked set to lose to the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre until the US president’s attacks on the …

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, …