Tag: USA

Airstrike Fallout: Traditional ruler cautions locals in Sokoto

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Sokoto airstrike fallout

The traditional ruler of Jabo in Tambuwal LGA of Sokoto State, Abubakar Jabo, has advised residents against visiting the explosion site to pick metal fragments and debris. The airstrike in the area, which occurred in the early hours yesterday, did not affect residents nor damage residential buildings. A visit to the scene where debris fell revealed that several fragments were being collected by some locals. The officials of Police Base 15 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) in Sokoto led by the Commandant, Hassan Jatau, had cordoned off the area on arrival.…

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Trump hands Nigeria £1.6bn health package in return for protecting Christians

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Trump's health package

…As US, FG seal landmark $5.1bn pact The United States (U.S) and Nigeria have signed a landmark five-year bilateral health cooperation agreement worth $5.1 billion (£4bn), with Washington contributing nearly £1.6bn ($2.1bn) and Abuja committing about £2.2bn ($3bn) in new domestic health spending—the largest co-investment under President Donald Trump’s ‘America First Global Health Strategy’ to date. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed in December, is aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s healthcare system, reducing preventable deaths, and combating HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, and maternal and child mortality. Nigeria currently bears about 30%…

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‘U.S conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump’s military intervention threat” – Report 

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US conducting surveillance

The United States (U.S) has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, according to Reuters reports. Citing December flight tracking data and current and former US officials, the report said the US contractor-operated aircraft used for the surveillance missions typically takes off from Ghana and flies over Nigeria before returning to Accra, the Ghanaian capital. It is not immediately clear what information the flights are intended to obtain. A former US official told Reuters the aircraft is among several assets the President Donald Trump administration…

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US stops Green Card, citizenship applications for Nigerians

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US stops Green Card

The United States (U.S) has placed a temporary halt on Green Card and citizenship applications linked to Nigerians. This action follows a new expansion of Washington’s immigration restrictions and affects several other countries recently added to a broader travel control policy. The suspension targets legal immigration filings, including applications for permanent residency and naturalisation. Many of those affected are Nigerians already living in the United States who were in the process of adjusting their status or applying to become citizens. Under the new directive, immigration authorities have stopped processing petitions…

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U.S express optimism Nigeria will end insecurity, terrorism

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The United States (U.S.) has expressed optimism that the Federal Government will win the fight against insecurity and terrorism in Nigeria. A member of the US Congress, Rep. Riley Moore, gave this optimism yesterday through a post he shared on his official X account following a recent congressional delegation’s discussions with Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribaɗu, on countering North-East terrorism and halting Christian killings in the Middle-Belt. Ribaɗu’s discussions with the delegation stems from an October 2025 directive by US President Donald Trump to the House Appropriations Committee…

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MURIC rejects US interference in Nigeria’s Shari’ah affairs

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MURIC rejects US

The Muslim Rights Concern, (MURIC), has rejected the call by a United States Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, to be involved in Nigeria’s Shari’ah matters. Recall that Obadare had urged the United States to pressure President Bola Tinubu to outlaw Shari’ah and the Hisbah boards. ‎‎However, in a statement issued yesterday by its Executive Director, Professor Is’haq Akintola, MURIC described Obadare’s call as crossing the red line. Akintola also added that the call raised more questions than answers about the intention of the United…

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“Tinubu’s Ambassadorial List shows Nigeria is a disgraced, corrupt nation” – Ex-US Mayor 

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Ex US Mayor

A former Mayor of Blanco, Texas, United States, Mike Arnold, has condemned the inclusion of former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, in President Bola Tinubu’s ambassadorial nominees list. Recall that the President submitted 32 new ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation on Saturday. Reacting to the development via a Facebook post, Arnold, who has repeatedly accused Omokri of trivialising persecution in Nigeria, stated that he should not be on the list. He accused Tinubu of being tone-deaf for appointing individuals such as Omokri and former Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode. The former…

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US spy flights, Nigerien incursion deepen anxiety over foreign military operations on Nigerian soil

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US spy flights, Nigerien incursion

Nigeria’s already-strained security environment was thrown into fresh uncertainty over the weekend following two alarming developments: allegations of covert U.S. intelligence flights over jihadist enclaves in Borno State, and a startling armed incursion by Niger Republic soldiers into Katsina State. Both incidents, though unrelated, have intensified public concern about the country’s porous borders, weakened defence architecture, and the growing influence of foreign militaries in Nigerian territory. A Sahel-focused terrorism tracker, Brant Philip, sparked controversy on Saturday after alleging that a manned U.S. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft quietly entered…

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Nigeria exempted, as US plans review migrants green cards from 19 countries

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US on green cards

The United States (U.S) has announced plans to re-examine all green cards issued to nationals of 19 countries as part of a broad review of immigration records. The move is part of US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants following the shooting of two National Guard members by a suspect named Rahmanullah Lakanwal from Afghanistan. The director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Joe Edlow,  on Thursday wrote in an X post: “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card…

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Kebbi officials reject ‘Christian target’ claims in schoolgirl abduction

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Kebbi officials on ‘Christian target’ claims

…As US voices condemn Nigeria killings The United States (U.S) intensified its criticism of Nigeria’s security crisis on Tuesday, as top US figures – including UN Ambassador Michael Waltz and American musician Nicki Minaj – decried what they described as targeted attacks on Christians.  However, in Kebbi State, local authorities pushed back strongly against claims by a US lawmaker that a recent school attack was religiously motivated. Speaking at a UN event on global religious freedom, titled: “Combatting Religious Violence and the Killing of Christians in Nigeria”, Ambassador Waltz labelled…

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