The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States have introduced new visa restrictions policies for Nigerian passport holders, further restricting travel opportunities for citizens of the West African nation. The UAE government has banned transit visas for Nigerians, while the US has halted the issuance of multiple-entry visas to certain categories of Nigerian travelers,…
Surgeons in Los Angeles have performed the world’s first successful human bladder transplant, marking a major breakthrough in organ transplant medicine. The eight-hour procedure took place at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4. It involved transplanting both a kidney and a bladder into 41-year-old Oscar Larrainzar, a father of four. Larrainzar had…
Officials of the United States Embassy have paid a courtesy visit to the Naval Base in Onitsha, Anambra State as a follow-up to the incident of attack on the US convoy in Ogbaru on May 16, 2023. Recall that a team of officials from the US Consulate and their police escorts were ambushed on Tuesday…
Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy has emerged as the elected Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives. McCarthy emerged in the early hours of Saturday after 15 rounds of voting overcoming the opposition of right-wing rebels who had upset his bid to lead the chamber for several days. The Californian veteran politician eventually secured the…
A six-year-old boy from Richneck Elementary School, Newport News, Virginia, in the United States, has been detained by the police after shooting his teacher. The police said the teacher, a woman in her 30s is battling life-threatening gun wounds in a hospital after the grave incident happened around 2 pm on Friday. According to Evening…
During his first official visit to Africa this week, DFC CEO Scott Nathan met with political and business leaders and signaled the agency’s commitment to mobilizing investment to improve food security, and expand access to critical services from electricity to technology. DFC has almost $10 billion of active investments in Africa and has recently supported…
