Objective Nigerian Stories…
![The Nigerian High Commission in London sacked over 50 members of staff last year, a decision that was taken partly due to budgetary constraints [Punch]](https://naijanewsportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Nigerian-High-Commission-in-London-sacked-over-50-members-of-staff-last-year-a-decision-that-was-taken-partly-due-to-budgetary-constraints-Punch.jpg)
While defending the budget estimate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mustapha Suleiman, said only 30 embassies can be funded with the capital votes earmarked in the budget. He lamented that the N4.123 billion capital votes proposed for the Missions for the 2019 fiscal […]
Asylum seekers who are steps away from Canada listen as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tells them they will be arrested as they cross over from New York state, north of Plattsburgh Nigerians make up a sizeable majority of thousands of people who have illegally crossed into Canada from the U.S. to file refugee claims […]
![Alabi Lateef with a blood-stained cloth after the attack on Linwood Mosque on March 15, 2019 [CNN]](https://naijanewsportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alabi-Lateef-with-a-blood-stained-cloth-after-the-attack-on-Linwood-Mosque-on-March-15-2019-CNN-.jpg)
Self-acclaimed white supremacist, Brenton Tarrant, walked heavily armed into Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Mosque in Christchurch on Friday, March 15, 2019, shooting at several worshippers, including children. The 28-year-old Australian livestreamed his attack at Al Noor Mosque, where he killed at least 40 people, before he moved on to Linwood Mosque where he continued […]
![R.Kelly in more trouble as 3rd sex tape with underage girls surfaces [PEOPLE]](https://naijanewsportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/R.Kelly-in-more-trouble-as-3rd-sex-tape-with-underage-girls-surfaces-PEOPLE-.jpg)
Looks like R.Kelly will be getting in more trouble after a third sex tape involving the singer and underage girls has surfaced. According to TMZ, lawyer, Gloria Allred and her client, Gary Dennis, came forward to explain how he got a hold of the third sex tape. Dennis who said he doesn’t know R. Kelly […]
Olabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo are the two Nigerian brothers at the heart of Jussie Smollett‘s alleged staged homophobic and racist attack on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, in Chicago. On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, Chicago Police Department (CPD) arrested the brothers after they returned to Chicago from Nigeria. Law enforcement is yet to release to […]
The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria encouraged Nigerians to support the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct free, fair, peaceful and credible elections. U.S. Embassy fully supports the joint statement by the heads of the ECOWAS and other international election observation missions on the postponement of the Feb.16 Nigerian elections. Voters queue to vote at Ejule […]
Five days ago, Pulse reported the matter of a child marriage that supposedly took place in Ozubulu, Anambra State, between a man she claims to be 56-year-old Izuchukwu Igwilo of the popular and wealthy Igwilo family of Anambra State to a 16-year-old girl (now reported to actually be 15). The initial report The news was broken on […]
This formed the opinion of Nigerians who led a protest to the United States Embassy in Abuja on Monday, January 27, 2019, to express the grievances following America’s reaction to the sacking of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the country’s number-one chief law officer. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Friday, January 25, 2019, suspended Onnoghen over […]
The British government has called for calm following the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen. The CJN’s suspension was announced by President Buhari on Friday, January 25, 2019. The British government also expressed concern over the development, adding that the timing is questionable. The statement reads: “The British High Commission expresses […]
he Embassy of the United States has expressed concern over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen. Onnoghen’s suspension was announced by President Buhari on Friday, January 25, 2019, despite several court orders stopping the Federal Government and other concerned parties not to remove him until the suit on his case […]