INTERNATIONAL

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) issued new visa rules for residence visas and entry permits, that will come into force on Monday, October 3, 2022. The Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs, and Port Security (ICP) confirmed on Friday that the new Advanced…

Two Nigerians resident in the United States – Patricia Omorogbe and Felix Omorogbe have been sentenced to two years and one and half years imprisonment respectively, over a $6.7million health care fraud scheme. According to the statement by the US Department of Justice,…

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has arrested a 26-year-old Nigerian serial robber, Charles Chukwuma Onwuemelie popularly known as the “Blue Cloth Bandit.” LAPD allegedly accused Onwuemelie, who was arrested on Wednesday, of 68 armed robberies that have gone down in the LA…

in federal court in Brooklyn, Reynaldo Vasquez, the former president of the El Salvadorian soccer federation (“the Federation”) was sentenced by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to 16 months’ imprisonment in connection with over $350,000 in bribes that he and…

Ibrahim Traore, army captain in Burkina Faso, has ousted Paul-Henri Damiba, the country’s military leader. Traore announced the development in a national broadcast on Friday evening. Earlier on Friday, The Lawyer had reported that heavy gunfire was heard from the main military base and some…

In a ceremony in the Kremlin's opulent white-and-gold St. George's Hall, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian-installed leaders of the four Ukrainian regions put their names on treaties for them to join Russia, in a sharp escalation of the seven-month conflict. In…

A United States (US)-based lawyer, Bruce Fein, who is a counsel to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike, before the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a criminal complaint. In a…

A court hearing has been granted to the family of Nnamdi Kanu, to challenge the UK government for not intervening in his case with the Nigerian government. Kanu, a British citizen who was allegedly taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition,…

Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso’s presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP. Several main roads in the capital Ouagadougou were blocked by troops and state television was…

Myanmar’s junta sentenced an Australian economist to three years in prison Thursday while also handing down another conviction to ousted leader Aung Suu Kyi, a source told AFP on Thursday. Both have been detained since a coup in February last year when the…