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*African Countries Targeted, List Out Soon The U.S State Department has prepared plans to impose bonds as high as $15,000 (about N22,857,000) for some tourism and business visas, according to a draft of a temporary final rule. The bonds would be issued to visitors from countries with significant overstay rates, under a 12-month pilot program. Many African countries are said to be in the list,soon to be unfurled. It renews an initiative issued by the first Trump administration in November 2020, the month that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election. That rule would have required a $15,000…

*Starvation Takes Hold After Week Of Appalling Milestones By Malak Tantesh,in Gaza, and Julian Borger The people of Gaza did not need this week’s official confirmation from UN-backed hunger experts that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was unfolding there. For months they have watched as their children waste away. “All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” said Jamil Mughari, a 38-year-old from Maghazi in central Gaza. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this. “I myself used to…

*'I've No Nigerian Passport' *'My Now Family Are In UK, Conservative Party Is My Extended Family' *Nigeria, A Big Fandango, She Says *'No Future For You In Nigeria', She Recalls Her Parents' Words ​Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer considers herself Nigerian and does not possess a Nigerian passport. The Conservative Party leader, who was born in London, but grew up in Nigeria and the U.S and did not return to the UK until she was 16, said she had not renewed her Nigerian passport in two decades. Speaking to the Rosebud podcast, Badenoch said: “I’m Nigerian through ancestry,…

*Some Were Trafficked, Then Forced Into Crime Fifty persons identified as Nigerians and a landlord have been arrested by Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) during a dawn operation at McCarthy Hills in the Ga South Municipality of Accra over alleged involvement in cybercrime and human trafficking. In Nigeria, cyber crime is known in the streets as yahoo yahoo. A report in Ghana Graphic Online said the operation took place on Thursday, July 24, 2025, following intelligence reports that some foreign nationals were unlawfully residing in the area and may have been trafficked into the country and forced into online fraud. “This…

*Addressed As Ambassador *Parks Cars With Fake Diplomatic Numbers *Flies Flags Of Different Countries *Found With Cash Equivalent Of About N78m Aside Foreign Currencies With full complement of mint-new cars bearing diplomatic plates, a building flying flags of different countries, and sundry paraphernalia of an embassy, an Indian man has been arrested for running a bogus embassy, in a major bust against fraud. The daredevil scam saw the man operate from a rented residential building near Delhi, the Indian capital, with police recovering the cars as well as cash in different currencies. The development has raised serious concerns that the…

*High BP/Diabetes-Prone Retiree Had Been Living 40 Years In U.S *Detains Wife 10 Hours, Frees, Then Separates Her From Husband *Family Cries Out By Michael Sainato An 82-year-old man in Pennsylvania was secretly deported to Guatemala after visiting an immigration office last month to replace his lost green card, according to his family, who have not heard from him since and were initially told he was dead. According to Morning Call newspaper, which first reported the story, long-time Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the U.S in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of…

*Undocumented Migrants Fret *People, Including Children, May Be Deterred From Seeking Needed Medicare Due To Fear *'It Now Weaponizes Data' Medicaid officials have reportedly made an agreement with U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to allow agents to examine a database of Americans’ personal information – including home addresses, social security numbers and ethnicities. The data sharing agreement will allow ICE to find “the location of aliens”, according to an agreement obtained by the Associated Press (AP) . Medicaid is the U.S’s single largest health insurer, providing coverage for 79 million low-income, disabled and elderly people. “This is about the…

*Emotion Filled The Oval Office *Fear Of Handing America's Nuclear Launch Codes To A 'Dangerous Man' *'Noone Thought He'd Win' By Ramon Antonio Vargas The hardest day on the job for the White House Press Secretary for most of Barack Obama’s second term was right after Donald Trump was first elected president, he recently revealed during a fireside chat at a journalism convention. Speaking at the 2025 National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference in Chicago, Josh Earnest said it was grueling for the Obama administration to realize it would have to follow through on promises of a peaceful transfer…

*'Yes, Sir', Liberian Leader Addresses Trump, In Another Question Donald Trump was basking in the praise of a group of African leaders on Wednesday, July 9, when the Liberian president took the microphone. “Liberia is a longtime friend of the United States and we believe in your policy of making America great again,” President Joseph Boakai said in English at a White House meeting before advocating for U.S investment in his country. "We just want to thank you so much for this opportunity.” Trump, clearly impressed, inquired where Boakai got his language skills. “Such good English, such beautiful …”, Trump…

*Wild Parties As Trump's Daughter's Or Bride's Dress Torn, Caught Fire; Report Denied Lauren Sánchez packed 27 designer dresses for her wedding to the billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, in Venice last week, but left with only 26 after one went missing. Bezos is the third richest man on earth, behind only Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk in that order. The couple, who are now honeymooning in Taormina, Sicily, were wed during a star-studded three-day celebration in the lagoon city. They left Venice on Sunday, but mystery over the missing dress has generated chatter in Venice, with Corriere della Sera…