Nigerian-born former British Labour member of parliament, Fiona Onasanya, was struck off as a solicitor on Tuesday, August 6 after being jailed for lying to avoid a speeding fine. The lawyer was clocked doing 41mph in a 30mph zone on The Causeway in Thorney, Cambridgeshire, shortly after 10pm on 24 July 2017 – but told … Read more
President Donald Trump on Monday August 5, ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government’s assets in the United States and barred transactions with its authorities due to the “continued usurpation of power” by President Nicolas Maduro. The freeze is the most direct action by Trump’s administration to remove Maduro since it recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó … Read more
A Nigerian, Adewale Adeyemo, has been appointed president of the Obama Foundation. The Nigerian-American economic expert becomes the first-ever president of the foundation. Adeyemo, 39, will lead “the implementation of the organisation’s strategic plan and managing its organisational structures and functions.’’ Astatement by the chairman of the foundation’s board, Martin Nesbitt, said: “Wally is the … Read more
A man from Nigeria was on Monday, August 5, jailed for life in the United Kingdom after murdering a student who vanished following a Boxing Day service. Shohfah-El Israel, whose real name is Ajibola Shogbamimu, has never admitted what he did with the body of Joy Morgan, from Hertfordshire, after killing her last Christmas. The … Read more
President Donald Trump has condemned hatred and white supremacy in a public address following mass shootings that left 31 dead in Texas and Ohio. He called for mental health gun control reforms, the death penalty for those who commit mass murder and more bi-partisan co-operation over gun laws. “Mental illness and hate pull the trigger, … Read more
Three Nigerian siblings who were working directly for the leader of the Nigerian Black Axe gang, Augustus Bemigho-Eyeoyibo, have been jailed for a total of 16 years after laundering nearly £1m to him in Nigeria through UK bank accounts. Crown Prosecution Service reported on its website that Okemiorukaye Nakpodia, 56, was found guilty of conspiracy … Read more
An award-winning Nigerian music director, Aswad Ayinde, found guilty of fathering children with his daughters will spend the rest of his life in jail. According to Mail Online, Ayinde, 55, of Paterson, New Jersey, United States, was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty in the second of five expected … Read more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised new funds for Britain’s state-run national health service (NHS) on Sunday, seeking to fulfil one of the promises of his 2016 Brexit campaign. Johnson pledged an extra £1.8 billion (2.0 billion euros, $2.2 billion) to immediately help frontline services, in a move that further fuelled speculation he is preparing for … Read more
21 year old Patrick Crusius from Allen, Texas opened fire at a Texas Walmart shopping centre and killed “multiple” people. The gunman fired at shoppers who were doing their Saturday shopping at the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso on August 3, said Mayor Dee Margo. At least 22 people have been injured, with … Read more
Gunmen have burst into a police station killing five detainees in central Mexico, local authorities say. The group opened fire on the five unidentified men in their cells at Guanjuanto state police station on Friday after arriving in several vehicles, state security commission spokesman Juan Jose Martinez told AFP. He did not say why the victims … Read more
A prominent Ugandan lecturer, Stella Nyanzi, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail over a poem dwelling on President Yoweri Museveni’s mother’s private part. Nyanzi, who used the president’s mother’s genitals to criticise what she considers his “oppression, suppression and repression” in the country, was found guilty of cyber harassment over the viral Facebook … Read more
Cambridge University student, Alana Cutland, died while on an internship in Madagascar earlier this month. A Cambridge University student has died in Madagascar after falling from a plane. Alana Cutland’s family said they had been left “heartbroken” and paid tribute to the “bright, independent woman.” The 19-year-old from Milton Keynes died while on an internship … Read more
A Nigerian man Paul Gabriel Amos presently serving jail terms in Singapore for money laundering was on Wednesday charged in court with another cheating offence. Court documents showed that Amos, 48, a permanent resident of Singapore, allegedly cheated an Australian, Milled El Khouri, at Changi Prison Complex into giving him 37,800 Singapore Dollar (N10,005,247) so … Read more
Nigerian nationals top the list of foreign nationals who have overstayed in Goa, a state in western India, over the last three years, a state official has said. Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant told the state Assembly on Tuesday that they are followed by Tanzanians. In a written reply tabled during the ongoing monsoon session of … Read more
China urged Washington on Tuesday to “immediately cancel” the potential sale of $2.2 billion in weapons to Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles. The US State Department’s decision to greenlight the first big-ticket US military sale to the self-ruled democratic island in decades comes amid already strained ties between Washington and Beijing. “The sale … Read more
Mobile internet services were restored across Sudan Tuesday following a court order, weeks after the ruling generals imposed a blockade in the wake of a brutal crackdown on protesters. Demonstrators were violently dispersed on June 3 by men in military fatigues, who stormed a weeks-long protest camp outside army headquarters in Khartoum where Sudanese had … Read more
MPs in Britain’s House of Commons voted on Tuesday to extend same-sex marriage and abortion rights to Northern Ireland — unless devolved government is restored there by October 21. Campaigners hailed the move as a “big step forward” in bringing the law in socially-conservative Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the country. However, … Read more
Argentine former head of state Fernando de la Rua — who was famously evacuated by helicopter from the presidential palace during the 2001 economic crisis — died Tuesday in Buenos Aires at the age of 81. “I share in the pain of his family,” said President Mauricio Macri, in announcing his death. “His democratic journey … Read more
Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack Monday on outgoing British premier Theresa May, following the leak of diplomatic cables highly critical of his presidency. London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the weekend release of confidential telegrams in which its envoy to Washington, Kim Darroch, described the US leader as “inept” and … Read more
US President Donald Trump hit back on Sunday and the UK launched an inquiry after leaked memos revealed Britain’s ambassador in the US had described the president and his White House as “inept” and “uniquely dysfunctional”. Trump said Ambassador Kim Darroch had “not served the UK well” and that he and his administration were “not … Read more