By: Tunji Okunlola The White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, to resign following press reports that she sought money from a political supporter of President Donald Trump and accepted costly hospitality from wealthy Greek businessmen. Press secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed the request at her first White House briefing on Tuesday….
By: Ganiyu Olayinka The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published the names and photographs of 24 Nigerians arrested by immigration authorities in connection with various criminal offences, as the country continues its deportation operations. According to information released by DHS, the individuals were arrested in different parts of the US by Immigration…
By: Tunji Okunlola Construction of the new U.S. Consulate General in Lagos has reached a major milestone, with the final bucket of structural concrete poured onto the roof of the 10-storey Chancery building. The topping-off ceremony was held on October 6, 2026, at the new consulate compound in Eko Atlantic City, Lagos, with U.S. Deputy…
By: Ganiyu Olayinka In the space of four days, three Nigerians lost their lives in separate incidents across South Africa, and Nigeria’s diplomats are now asking hard questions. The Consulate-General in Johannesburg, led by Consul-General Amb. Ninikanwa Okey-Uche, named the victims in a statement on Monday as Kenechukwu Christopher Igwemmadu, Olaniyi Olaleye Olatunde and Christian…
By: Ganiyu Olayinka The long-pending Nigeria-EU re-admission agreement, first initiated in 2016, took centre stage in talks between Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and the EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, on Monday in New York. According to a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja by Magnus Eze, Special Assistant…
By: Tunji Okunlola The UK Department for Education (DfE) has dropped Nigeria, Ghana and India from the list of countries whose teachers can seek Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) through the “Apply for QTS in England” service. The change came into force on September 9, 2026, per updated DfE guidance. QTS is the standard professional teaching…
By: Ganiyu Olayinka Nigeria was one of 11 countries that took part in an INTERPOL-coordinated counter-terrorism operation that used artificial intelligence to help identify 126 suspected foreign terrorist fighters. The suspects were matched from facial images taken from jihadist online content. The exercise, code-named Operation Shams II, ran from June 1 to 5, 2026, in…
By: Tunji Okunlola Former President Goodluck Jonathan has bid farewell to former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, who is returning to his country after spending more than two years in Nigeria. Jonathan announced this in a statement on Sunday, referring to Koroma as his “dear friend and brother.” He said Nigeria had been a…
By: Tunji Okunlola Left: Africa on the traditional world map based on the Mercator projection, and on the Right: on the 2018 Equal Earth map. Composite: equal-earth.com, Getty Images via Guardian For generations, the world’s most familiar map has done Africa a disservice by flattening the continent’s true scale despite its vast landmass. That distortion…
By: Tunji Okunlola Nigeria could see its energy investment double within the next five years, following the country’s admission as an associate member of the International Energy Agency (IEA), according to the agency’s Executive Director, Fatih Birol. Birol said the new relationship with the Paris-based energy watchdog would help Nigeria draw fresh investment, deepen technical…
