Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery Petrol Lands In US For First Time

Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery’s premium motor spirit, PMS, has arrived in New York, United States, for the first time. According to Reuters, Sunoco and Vitol organised the shipment on Monday. The delivery on the tanker, Gemini Pearl, marks a major milestone for the 650,000-barrel-per-day Dangote refinery. Reuters reported that an additional shipment of Dangote petrol, which…

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Ghana Agrees To Accept Several Nigerians, Other Deported West Africans From US

Ghana has agreed to accept several Nigerians and other West Africans deported from the United States, becoming the latest country to cooperate with Washington’s campaign against undocumented migrants. President John Mahama confirmed that nationals from different West African countries would now be received in Ghana following a bilateral agreement with the US, noting that 14…

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Trump Is ‘White Idi Amin,’ I Won’t Honour U.S. Consulate Visa Reinterview – Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has rejected an invitation by the United States Consulate in Nigeria to attend a visa reinterview, warning that under President Donald Trump, whom he described as a ā€œWhite Idi Amin,ā€ such processes appear suspect and unsafe. In an exclusive interview with TheNEWS/PMNEWS on Tuesday, 9 September, Soyinka confirmed he had…

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FLASH: Ex-NNPC GM Convicted In US Over $2.1m Bribe, Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence

A United States court has found Paulinus Okoronkwo, a Nigerian-American, guilty of receiving a $2.1 million bribe. Okoronkwo, former general manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), now NNPC Limited, was found guilty of transactional money laundering, tax evasion, and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors said while serving as NNPC’s upstream division general manager, Okoronkwo…

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FLASH: Federal Workers Sacked For Watching P0rn On Office Devices During Work HoursĀ 

The U.S. government has fired some Federal Emergency Management Agency employees for watching pornography on office devices during work hours. U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem announced the sacking of the employees who she described as ā€œdisgustingā€. ā€œToday, I am announcing that multiple disgraced FEMA employees were fired for using their government devices…

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