Category: Foreign

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, wife, found dead

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95-year-old US actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead inside their home on Thursday in New Mexico. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said the couple were found dead on Wednesday afternoon, adding that there was no immediate indication of foul play, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican, Variety and Sky News. Mendoza did not provide a cause of death. The couple reportedly died along with their dog. Hackman, who was 95, was once voted as likely to flop in showbiz but instead went…

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Trump to sell US residency permits for $5m

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President Donald Trump of the United States of America has unveiled plans to sell new “gold card” residency permits for a price of $5 million each — and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible. Trump said sales of the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit. “We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on…

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Two men sentenced to public flogging in Indonesia for gay sex

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Two men found guilty of sexual relations by a court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday, have been sentenced to be publicly flogged, an official said. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation — it is illegal in Aceh province, which imposes Sharia, the Islamic law code. In November, locals raided a rented room in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh and found the two men — both students at a local university — together. They were taken to Sharia…

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US to deport Nigerian convicted for fraud after serving jail term

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The United States Department of Justice has made it known that a Nigerian, Edwin Okoronkwo, who was sentenced to 75 months imprisonment for defrauding some Americans, will be deported after completing his jail term. Okoronkwo was said to have connived with his wife, Julie Okoronkwo, who was also sentenced to 25 months imprisonment for her role in the catfishing scheme that targeted unsuspecting Americans. The conviction was contained in a statement obtained from the US Department of Justice website on Thursday. The statement disclosed that the convicts who were permanent…

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Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US

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One of Nigeria’s respected poet and professor of English Language and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl. According to reports from the US, Okafor aged 64, and cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught that his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading home, in Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and also shot himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. A small-caliber handgun was…

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US-based Nigerian cardiologist ‘commits suicide’ after losing child support case

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Ikenna Erinne, a 36-year-old Nigerian cardiologist based in the United States, has reportedly taken his own life after a court ruling in favor of his ex-wife in a child support case. The tragic incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, January 26. Dr. Erinne, originally from Anambra State, had been involved in a prolonged divorce battle with his estranged wife, particularly over the custody of their children. He lost the case when a U.S. court ordered him to pay $15,000 in monthly child support. Clayton Udo, a Nigerian-American, confirmed…

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Nigerian woman denied US residency after DNA reveals sponsor is not her biological father

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A permanent residency application made by Mr. Adex Odiete for his daughter, Linda was rejected by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied after a DNA test proved he was not her biological father. The USCIS in 2007 approved an I-130 application for Mr Odiete’s daughter, granting her access to the country. After over a decade, the man initiated the formal process to upgrade his daughter’s immigrant status to a permanent resident, form I-148. The U.S. government requested supporting documents such as Ms Odiete’s birth certificate, tuition receipts and…

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Two Nigerians arrested in Kuwait for alleged $14,918 robbery

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Two unidentified Nigerians have been arrested by the Kuwaiti General Department of Criminal Investigation (GDCI), in the Ahmadi Province for allegedly robbing an exchange office and stealing $14,918. They have been charged with the crime. In a statement on Wednesday, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior, as reported by Arab Times Online, confirmed that the suspects were apprehended within 24 hours after robbing an exchange office in Mahboula, a district in southern Kuwait City. Footage on the Arab Times Online website shows one of the suspects exiting a car wearing a…

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Sen. Ekweremadu’s wife, Beatrice freed from UK prison

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Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former deputy senate president, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu been released from prison in the United Kingdom and she is now back in Nigeria. The lawmaker’s wife returned on Tuesday to celebration and prayers for her husband’s safe return. Beatrice and her husband were convicted for charges bothering on organ harvesting and trafficking in May 2023. The couple had attempted to buy a kidney off a young Nigerian boy to make him a donor to their daughter Sophia. Beatrice, her husband and one Obinna Obeta, a medical doctor, were…

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‘Nigeria’s terrible governments destroy lives’, Kemi Badenoch fires another shot

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Nigerian-born leader of UK’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has again, fired another salvo against her country of birth, after last year’s controversial remarks about Nigeria. In her address at an event organised by Onward, a British think tank producing research on economic and social issues, Badenoch said she did not want Britain to be like Nigeria. While advocating that her party is in better position to fix the UK, the politician said the United Kingdom could become like Nigeria if the system is not reformed. In her words, she said:…

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