Day: November 10, 2024

Canadian authorities have cancelled the 10-year multiple-entry visa issued to Nigerians and foreigners in an effort to cut down on immigration after recording a surge in population growth post-Covid. The multiple-entry visa, before its cancellation, allowed holders to enter and exit Canada as they pleased but an update by the government on Wednesday stated that it was no longer considered the “standard document.” “Guidance has been updated to indicate that multiple-entry visas issued to maximum validity are no longer considered to be the standard document,” reads a statement by the…

The US Justice Department is bringing criminal charges over an Iranian plot to kill the president-elect, Donald Trump, that was thwarted by the FBI, the government said. The federal government has unsealed criminal charges in what the justice department said was a murder-for-hire plan to take out Trump before this week’s presidential election, which he won decisively over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan alleges that an unnamed official in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards instructed a contact this past September to put…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is said to have arrested the newly elected chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) in Anambra State, Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, on arrival at an airport in Texas, United States. Nwadialo was nabbed on charges linked to a $3.3 million romance scam. In a statement, the US Department of Justice said Nwadialo is facing a 14-count charge and risks a 20-year sentence if found guilty. Nwadialo, 40, was traveling from Nigeria when he was taken into custody. He is now set to be transported…

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone IX, Mr. Patrick Edung, has condemned inter-agency rivalry among security agencies in the country, insisting that it is more frequent amidst low rank personnel. Mr. Edung stated this while receiving the newly deployed Osun State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mr. Igbalawole Sotiyo, at the command headquarters in Osogbo, the state capital. In a statement issued in Osogbo on Friday, the Osun NSCDC spokesperson, Kehinde Adeleke, said the visit was aimed at addressing the recent assault…

More than 130 homes are now known to have been destroyed by a raging wildfire burning outside Los Angeles, as a break in the weather Friday gave firefighters a chance to tame the blaze. Hurricane-strength winds that battered the area this week fuelled an explosion in the Mountain Fire near Camarillo, which grew rapidly to over 20,000 acres (8,000 hectares). Thousands of people in the path of the inferno were forced to flee, some describing how they had only minutes to gather crucial possessions and pets as unpredictable flames leapt…

A newly active armed terror group operating in Sokoto and Kebbi States, known as Lakurawa, attacked Mera town in the Augie Local Government Area of Kebbi State on Friday, killing at least fifteen people. According to Alhaji Bashir Mera, a local source who confirmed the attack, the group struck as residents were preparing for Jumaat prayers on Friday afternoon, making off with at least one hundred cattle. “Upon receiving the news, the people of the town mobilised hundreds to pursue the group into the bush to recover the animals, leading…