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4 days ago | gazettengr.com | Adefemola Akintade

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave President Donald Trump the go-ahead to deport undocumented Nigerians and other foreigners to third-party nations where they hold no citizenship in a ruling the Department of Homeland Security calls “a victory” for the American people.

5 days ago | gazettengr.com | Adefemola Akintade

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has fired a litany of missiles against Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, America’s largest military base in the Middle East and another military base in Iraq as retaliation for U.S.’s decimation of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday. Qatari officials disclosed that all missiles were intercepted before they could inflict any major damage.

5 days ago | gazettengr.com | Adefemola Akintade

Days after the Donald Trump administration decimated Iran’s nuclear facilities with bunker-buster bombs, the Nigerian government —which previously rebuked Israel for air-dropping bombs on Iran and killing its top generals— said it was assessing the U.S. aggression on Iranian soil. President Bola Tinubu’s administration last week knocked Israel for causing an “escalation of hostilities”, advising that the nation should have opted for diplomacy and dialogue to resolve the bad blood with Iran.

1 week ago | gazettengr.com | Adefemola Akintade

U.S. President Donald Trump has bemoaned the number of public holidays in the country, ignoring Juneteenth; a celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans from their slave masters in 1865. The hustle and bustle of the White House was unaffected by the Thursday holiday given that staff manned their duty posts as usual even as the rest of America, mostly government workers, observed the Juneteenth public holiday proclaimed by former President Joe Biden in 2021.

1 week ago | gazettengr.com | Adefemola Akintade

President Bola Tinubu is planning to take a break from official duties and de-stress in the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia by month’s end even as Nigerians grieve the hundreds of lives lost in the herders-farmers clash in Yelewata and Dauda communities of Benue state last weekend. Barely two months after returning from Paris, Mr Tinubu scheduled a week-long personal vacation trip to de-stress in the Caribbeans, a statement by Saint Lucia Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre said on Monday.