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The statement said, “The US Mission to Nigeria is aware of websites and messages advertising the U.S. visa lottery. All of these sites are FAKE! The only accurate information on the visa lottery is available at ng.usembassy.gov and travel.state.gov. Addresses with .gov are the only accurate source of visa information.’’. The Immigration Act of 1990 established the Diversity…
The recent announcement by the Saudi Arabian Kingdom, barring foreign countries from participating in the 2021 Hajj has come as a rude shock to pilgrims globally who are suffering such restrictions for the second year. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, founded in 1932, indeed dashed the hope of over 2 million prospective pilgrims across the…
The G7 is the informal grouping of industrialised democracies that meets once a year to discuss global economic challenges, international security, human rights, energy policies and other key global issues. Of recent, a unified statement released by the leaders of the G7 has increased the growing tensions in the group, especially between the US and…
The likelihood of another military coup in Mali was fast gaining momentum when everything started. This was following the detention by the military of President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, who lead an interim government that was installed under the threat of regional sanctions following a coup last year August. Eventually, the military…
If anyone guessed that the current COVID-19 pandemic will have a long drawn impact on illegal migration to Europe, one will be dead wrong. A BBC News report on 12 May 2021 put the number of migrants that landed at the Island of Lampedusa, in the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, this year at 13,000. The…
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was recently sworn in for his sixth term in office after a very controversial election. Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, was in attendance as the representative of the country’s government. What actually generated so much interest was the fact that the 76-year-old Museveni has been in power since 1986. This…
25 April is the day set aside by the United Nations as World Malaria Day. In 2021, Africa is still grieving over the 384,000 preventable malaria deaths that happened on the continent in 2020. The statistics for 2021 will be released next year as compilation is ongoing. But even in the midst of these tears,…
No work of art best captures happenings in recent times than William Butler Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming”, written decades ago. The poem captures an apocalyptic odiousness, characteristic of the uprising ravaging the political turf of some countries like India, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and other countries around the globe today. As the world experiences a…
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s two-time minister of finance would finally be resuming in Geneva this March as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. In the course of her campaign for the coveted position, a lot of calculations were made and diverse steps taken. Some were aimed at boosting her chances for the position, while others…
Although Nigeria-China relations date back to more than five decades, recent developments call for a careful and detailed analysis of this relationship with respect to investment, trade and aid. This month, Nigeria marked fifty years of bilateral relationship with China, with the leaders of the two countries exchanging solidarity messages. China’s bilateral trade and economic…
