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The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has joined other pan-Africanists in New York, United States to remind the Africa diaspora of their root.
“The US State Department has allegedly told the UN that it doesn’t have time to issue Zarif a visa,’’ the top Iranian diplomat told news agency Isna on Tuesday.
After Joshua lost to Andy Ruiz Jr during their first match in New York in June, Okoyen sent him a letter praising his courage and assuring him of Nigeria’s support in his future fights.
Okoyen, who made this known in a statement on Friday, said that backlogs of passport and visa applications were constantly being cleared in line with government operational guidelines.
The Nigerian consulate in New York has debunked allegation in some quarters that it charges extra 200 dollars for same-day E-passport service.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has assured embattled former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, of his mother’s return from kidnappers’ den.
Matteo Berrettini will face Rafael Nadal in the US Open semi-final on Friday night.
Andy Ruiz Jr has hit back at Tyson Fury after the latter claimed he has been partying too much following his shock victory against Anthony Joshua.
For many years to come, book makers will struggle to fully discover the person and the operation of Jeffery Epstein, the American Millionaire pedophile convict who recently committed suicide in a New York prison while awaiting trial for sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. He lived and died for sex. His looked like a depraved rich, highly-connected very intelligent man who unfortunately had a very prolonged and tortuous battle with unbridled libido and very powerful sex demons that eventually ended fatally. Yes.
Mexican-American world heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. will fight Britain’s Anthony Joshua in a rematch in Saudi Arabia on December 7, Sky Sports reported on Friday.
The Nigerian Consul General in New York, Benayaogha Okoyen, says he is excited by US-based Nigerian boxer Helen Joseph’s victory in a recognition bout at the weekend.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Saturday in New York, United States of Nigeria said no fewer than 81 herdsmen had been convicted and 3,000 cows arrested under the state’s anti-open grazing law.
The 29-year-old Mexican-American claimed the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles with his shock seventh-round knockout of Joshua at New York’s Madison Square Garden on June 1 and wants to see the second fight take place at the same venue.
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova is on the entry list of the last Grand Slam tournament of the 2019 tennis season, US Open, which will begin on August 26 and run through September 8 in New York, the tournament’s press service reports.
Speaking at a conference on Sustainable Development Goals hosted by the consulate in New York, Okoyen said that the provision of accommodation for the homeless Nigerians was not part of the consulate’s mandates.
Okoyen made the call at a one-day conference organised by the African Trade Centre, with the theme: “Diaspora Engagement in Sustainable Development in Nigeria,” in New York on Monday
A major power outage on Saturday evening hit parts of New York, the commercial capital of the United States.
The presidency has made clarifications on the statement made by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo in New York on Nigeria’s security situation.
Taking more than 40 questions from the Nigerian community in New York, United States of America on Sunday night, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has reassured Nigerians in Diaspora about the determination of the Buhari Administration to secure the country and prosper the people.