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Money may be everything -or almost everything -to most people across the world, but even the richest man on earth has at least one person he obviously looks up to as a role model. Put short, while most see in him the ultimate of who they aspire to be, the world's richest sees another as who he aspires to look like. A single image by football megastar Cristiano Ronaldo was enough to ignite conversation across social media, with world's richest man Elon Musk joining in. Ronaldo shared a post-sauna photo showcasing his famously sculpted physique, and among the millions who…

By William Christou & Pjotr Sauer In 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” The graffiti was a thinly-veiled threat that Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, a London-trained ophthalmologist, would be next in the line of Arab dictators toppled by the then raging Arab spring. It took 14 years, during which 620,000 were killed and nearly 14 million displaced, but eventually the doctor’s turn came and Assad was deposed, fleeing to Moscow, Russia, in the middle of the night. But after relinquishing his dictatorship for a gilded…

An additional negative effect of Donald Trump's declaration of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to religious intolerance, came on Tuesday as the US President signed a proclamation that further restricts and limits the entry of foreign nationals to the US, the White House said. Nigerians are among those foreign nationals. Tuesday’s proclamation said the restrictions were “necessary to prevent the entry of foreign nationals about whom the United States lacks sufficient information to assess the risks they pose. It is the President’s duty to take action to ensure that those seeking to enter our country will…

*Victims Lost Homes, Retirement Savings, Money For Medicals, College Funds To His Fraud *A Fraud Of Epic Generational Scale -Judge Do Kwon, the entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that lost $40bn (£29.8bn) three years ago and caused the sector to crash, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud. The South Korean, 34, had pleaded guilty to two counts of US charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. Kwon, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, was sentenced at a hearing in New York. The US district judge Paul Engelmayer called his crimes…

There are fears for the wellbeing of the 2023 Nobel Peace prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, after she was detained by Iranian security forces at a memorial ceremony for a human rights lawyer in the eastern city of Mashhad. Mohammadi, 53, who was granted temporary leave from prison on medical grounds in December 2024, was newly detained along with several other activists at the memorial for Khosro Alikordi, who was found dead in his office last week. Mohammadi’s brother Mehdi, who was present at the ceremony, confirmed her arrest, her foundation said. Speaking to the Guardian UK, a member of Mohammadi’s…

*Additional To Processing Fee N21.7m *Background Check On Applicant Compulsory *Companies To Pay Annual Maintenance Fee N29m *Firms Switching Visa From Employee To Employee N150m Each *Scheme To Rake In Billions Of $ *'US Doesn't Want Immigrants Who Can't Pay To Stay In America' US President Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US “golden visa” for $1m (about N1.448b) and trailed a “platinum” version for $5m. “A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,” Trump wrote…

*War Storms Thicken War drums beat louder for Venezuela and the United States (US) today as the Venezuelan government responded defiantly to the heightened pressure by the US government, including Donald Trump’s statements earlier today that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. In a statement, the Venezuelan government described Trump’s comments as a “colonialist threat” against their sovereignty and violates international law. The government demanded respect for its airspace, saying it would not accept foreign orders or threats. Trump had on his Truth Social post, today, said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers,…

US President Donald Trump said today that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. Trump, in a Truth Social post wrote: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.” Venezuela’s Communications Ministry, which handles all press inquiries for the government, did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Trump’s post. The US War Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to the Guardian UK. US strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean…

*Sack Electoral Process With President, Rival Claiming Victory In Poll *Give No Terminal Date For Military Interregnum Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the West African country, three days after elections that both the two main presidential contenders claim to have won. Military officers said they were suspending Guinea-Bissau’s electoral process and closing its borders, in a statement read out at the army’s headquarters in the capital Bissau and broadcast on state TV. They said they had formed “the high military command for the restoration of order”, which would rule the country until further notice.…

*FG Denies Claims It appears the noose is being readied for persons involved in alleged killing of Christians in Nigeria as America's top diplomat in the United Nations (UN) has spoken of the West African country's religious situation, saying entire church congregations have been wiped out in what he alleged is a genocide. It was gathered that the statement,made at a public event, is part of US' moves to galvanize global opinion ahead of any intended practical action by President Donald Trump, if Nigeria's authorities fail to stamp out the alleged slaughters. Ambassador Mike Waltz described the recent killings of…