Updated list: 44 Visa-free countries Nigerians can visit
NIGERIAN PASSPORT RANKED 90TH GLOBALLY WITH ACCESS TO 44 COUNTRIES Nigeria’s passport may have dropped to 90th place in the latest Henley Passport Index, but holders can still travel to 44 destinations without obtaining a visa before departure. The July…
Senegal’s President Bassi Round Diomaye Faye Emerges New ECOWAS Chairman
Senegal’s President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Faye was elected during the 69th Ordinary Session of the…
South Africa Arrests 159 Illegal Foreign Nationals, Over 1,000 Suspects Nabbed in Major Crime Crackdown
South African law enforcement agencies have intensified their nationwide crackdown on crime and illegal immigration, leading to the arrest of 159 undocumented foreign nationals and more than 1,000 suspects during a series of coordinated operations. The arrests were carried out…
Governor Peter Mbah celebrates world’s best junior maths student, Chimdiebube Onwubiko
Governor Peter Mbah has celebrated the outstanding achievement of Chimdiebube Onwubiko, who was recognized as the Best in the Junior Category in Mathematics in the World. Sharing a photo from their meeting, the governor described the young mathematics champion as…
PROFILE: Badejo-Okusanya, NBA’s new president, who returned to study law a decade after earning English degree
Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya on Saturday emerged as the winner of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential election, becoming the 33rd president of the law association. Badejo-Okusanya polled 12,317 votes, representing 47.18 percent of the total votes cast, to defeat her closest…
Notorious drug cartel leader Ismael Zambada sentenced to life in US prison
One of the most notorious figures in Mexico’s drug cartels, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a US judge has ruled, two years after the kingpin was lured to the US in an…
Two firefighters hospitalised as fire guts three-storey building in Lagos
Two firefighters has been hospitalised after collapsing while battling a fire that engulfed the top floor of a three-storey residential building in Ketu-Ikosi, Lagos. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the incident occurred at No. 11, Ademola Taiwo…
Atiku, Obi lack northern support to beat Tinubu – Ganduje
Former APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi do not have the political structure needed in Northern Nigeria to defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential…
Nigerian banker wins over $200,000 scholarship for US PhD
A banker from Nigeria spent a decade watching companies waste their own data. Now she has $200,000-plus PhD funding to study why. Oghenetega Deborah Wash-Anigboro, known as Tega, won the prestigious MSU Dean scholarships and is set to start a…
Amina Mohammed: Nigeria’s candidate, Africa’s choice for next UN Secretary-General
As the international community begins the search for a successor to António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, whose tenure as the Secretary-General of the United Nations ends in January 2027, attention is increasingly turning to candidates capable of leading the world…