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Ghanaian couple based in the United States, will spend the next 25-years of their lives in prison for second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old son. Valerie Owusu, and her boyfriend, Emmanuel Addae, both 28 years old and residing in Corona, Queens, New York, had been convicted in March of depraved indifference murder for […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s naira has demonstrated signs of strengthening against the United States dollar, appreciating by N125 to reach N1,275/$1 over the weekend. The new rate represents a 9.8 per cent increase when compared to N1,400 to a dollar it traded at the close of trading activity on Friday. This came as the Senate through its Committee […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square, United States, to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt that began on Wednesday. He had […]
Continue ReadingCharges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the shooting dead of her natural bodybuilder husband, Michael Chidozie, in Houston, Texas, United States, at about 7:35 p.m. on Thursday, March 21. The suspect Keaiirra Shavoiyae Chidozie, 28, was arrested by Houston Police Department (HPD) and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in […]
Continue ReadingPart of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early on Tuesday morning after a column was hit by a large container ship, sending cars and possibly people into the Patapsco River. The Baltimore City Fire Department told CBS News that at about 1:30 a.m., 911 calls started coming in saying a vessel had […]
Continue ReadingUnited States on Monday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior leaders, denouncing what it said was a campaign of rights abuses and corruption. The sanctions, which will block any US-based property and block any unofficial travel to the United States, replace a broader, two-decade-old sanctions programme against Zimbabwe. “The changes we […]
Continue ReadingUnited States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have released pictures of the site of the tragic crash that killed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, and five others. The Airbus EC130 helicopter crashed close to the California-Nevada border near Halloran Springs, killing Wigwe, his wife Doreen, their son Chizi Wigwe and […]
Continue ReadingGrammy Award-winning Nigerian star singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, is billed to perform at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards. In a post on X (Twitter) platform, Billboard revealed that Tems will perform at the event scheduled for March 6 at the YouTube Theater in California, United States. “BREAKTHROUGH honoree @temsbaby will take […]
Continue ReadingFormer United States (US) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, has died at the age of 100. Kissinger served as America’s top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations. In spite of leaving office in the mid-1970s, […]
Continue Reading25-year-old Nigerian man, Jason Ogbomoh, has been shot and killed in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. Jason was shot several times by a yet to be identified shooter on Sunday, November 12, 2023. His father, Chief Patrick Ogbomoh, is the president of Agbor-USA, a socio-cultural group and apex body for Agbor indigenes residing […]
Continue ReadingA Florida judge has sentenced Aaron Glee to life in prison for the 2020 murders of 19-year-old Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist, Oluwatoyin Salau and 75-year-old Victoria Sims. Glee was supposed to plead guilty in January 2023 but decided to have a trial instead. In June, the 52-year-old Glee pleaded guilty to a first-degree murder […]
Continue ReadingPresidential media aide, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Sunday afternoon, announced that President Bola Tinubu has left Nigeria for the United States to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The event will be Tinubu’s first UNGA meeting since he assumed office as president in May. He is expected to hold bilateral meetings […]
Continue ReadingTalented reality show anchor person, Nigerian star actor, model, singer, voice-over artist and television presenter, Joseph Benjamin, has revealed the reason behind his decision to become a cab driver in the United States Of America. Benjamin 46, who relocated to America in 2016, revealed while appearing on the latest episode of the Teju Babyface Deep […]
Continue ReadingEight Nigerian teachers have been sponsored to travel to the United States (US) to teach Yoruba language and culture in the universities and colleges for one academic session. Vanguard reports that the teachers will travel to the US under the 2023 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA). This was disclosed by the US Missions […]
Continue ReadingA white man, Dr. Wiebe Boer has taken to his Twitter handle to celebrate Nigerian culture as he attended a Yoruba traditional wedding with his wife in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Sharing their beautiful pictures, he wrote: “My gorgeous wife and I at a traditional Yoruba wedding in @CityGrandRapids USA” His […]
Continue ReadingInvestigating officers have arrested a church member, Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, of Portsmouth who was alleged to have gunned down a Sayreville Councilwoman and Nigerian pastor, Eunice Dwumfour, 30, in her SUV outside her home in February in New Jersey, United States. Prosecutors from New Jersey said investigators traced his travels from his cellphone and […]
Continue ReadingFormer Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) reality TV show star, Joseph Ada has passed away. Joseph Ada, who participated in the 1st edition of the BBNaija show in 2006, reportedly died on Wednesday in Delaware, United States. He was reportedly diagnosed with Pancreatitis which led to his untimely death. The reality star had relocated to the […]
Continue ReadingLate founder and General Overseer of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua aka TB Joshua’s daughter, Ms. Promise Joshua has bagged a Master’s Degree in the United States. Publisher and CEO of Ovation International Magazine, Dele Momodu shared the news on his Instagram page where he wrote: “JOY IN THE HOUSE […]
Continue ReadingIn a series of tweets, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has faulted the call made by the US Secretary of the State, Antony J. Blinken, to President-elect, Bola Tinubu, adding that he ought to let the court decide the legitimate president of Nigeria. Obi said: […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man has been elected the mayor of Colorado Springs, a municipality in Colorado in the United States, becoming the first black man to achieve that political feat. Yemi Mobolade, an Independent candidate, defeated his opponent, Wayne Williams, a Republican on Tuesday night, May 16, in the city’s runoff contest, despite minimal politics-related experience, The […]
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