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The United States Mission in Nigeria has announced that all applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas must now adjust their social media account’s privacy settings to “public.”

F, M, and J visas are nonimmigrant visa categories issued by the US government for individuals coming to the country for educational and exchange purposes.

The mission stated that applicants in those categories must now set their personal social media profiles to public, as part of a new visa requirement.

The development was announced via the United States Diplomatic Mission Nigeria’s official X page on Monday, noting the update was effective immediately.

“Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their personal social media accounts to ‘public,’” the post read.

According to the post, the change is meant to complement vetting efforts aimed at determining applicants’ identities and their admissibility to the United States.

“We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to the United States, including those who pose a threat to US national security,” the post said.

The US, while earlier announcing the plan for the update in June, maintained that its visa “is a privilege, not a right.”

On June 18, 2025, the US Department of State published on its website that under the new guidance, “we will conduct a comprehensive and thorough vetting, including online presence, of all student and exchange visitor applicants in the F, M, and J nonimmigrant classifications.”

“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas will be instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to ‘public.’”

The statement added, “Every visa adjudication is a national security decision.

“The United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those applying for admission into the United States do not intend to harm Americans and our national interests and that all applicants credibly establish their eligibility for the visa sought, including that they intend to engage in activities consistent with the terms for their admission.”

https://punchng.com/us-embassy-begins-screening-nigerian-students-social-media-accounts/

To the terrorist sympathizers online; Winter came for you early. The US says for you to get student visa or visa to visit on exchange programs u must provide details of your social media account which will be thoroughly vetted before you visa is considered for approval.

If u like continue dey celebrate Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah and their likes via your social media handle. Some of u, na when una climb career ladder where ur employers send u abroad for a course una go cry blood.

TemporaryHansel:
Nothing like that bro. I have been using both for over three years.

I guess you case is different.

KingTom:
That's the last hope of the common man, and since there's no collateral only reputation damage in the long run, most of them feel the immediate solution is better than the latter reputation damage

Baba, this is why I said they are preying on people's ignorance and make it seem like they are the cheapest out there despite the luggage of their unorthodox loan recovery system.

Stanbic IBTC bank have a non-collaterized loan product they sell called "Eazi Cash". Their interest rate is 4% monthly compared to Opay's 6% exmaple u gave up there. I have not heard of Stanbic IBTC posting obituaries of defaulters or harassing mutual friends of their debtors with calls.

iamoyindamola:
Do you remember the screenshot of calls I got from this palmpay people
I still get them on my iPhone

As in....loan wey u no collect, na u dem go dey disturb to tell the debtor to pay them back.

TemporaryHansel:
I haven't experienced anything like that with either opay or palmpay. Maybe some of your contacts applied?

You are missing the point.

The guy in the screenshot is complaining that they are always calling and disturbing him to come and apply for their loan. I am coroborating his point by pointing out I see their ads everywhere online asking people to come and apply for loans which they will jack up interest rates midway then start disturbing the debtor and his contacts.

You must have seen their ads too on their app if indeed you use Opay

KingTom:
I opened the loan section one day and looked at the interest rates, omo it was bloody, interests were as high as 16.8% I think the lowest was about 9% and that's when you spread the loan tenure for a longer period say 6 months, meaning if you borrow 100k you'll pay back 160k

Their loans are not cheap at all; they only lure unsuspecting people into those loans making them believe they offer the best non-collaterized loan.

I don't even use Opay but everywhere I turn to online I see their ads : "Do you need quick loan?" 🤦‍♂️

I can only imagine what people have their app installed on their phone will be going through all in the name of making quick cash available to them.

TemporaryHansel:
https://www.nairaland.com/8469180/kaduna-govt-refund-buyers-institutional

My quest in is ; at what cost will the refund be made?

El-Rufai has left the seat of power over 2 years now which means that those who bought the properties definitely bought at least 2 or 3 years ago.

Let's say I bought one of the properties for 5 million naira 3 years ago, if will be totally unfair for the kaduna state government to refund 5 million today because that will not do justice to the value of money I paid back then.

But government being government will expect the victims to be grateful they even got back the 5 million when it is obvious the 5 million should have appreciated at least by 100%.

The way government policies and politics just dey 4ck with people for this county ehn.... 🤦‍♂️

iamoyindamola:
All of these to cover their nyash nawa oo

Ellexy:
Censorship stage one.

Na make person sha dey careful make person no become victim ni.

U see people like Ned Nwoko wey dem faminazis online dey drag am for his marriage to Regina Daniels, he go send a lot of them to Sanko with this law. A lot of big men will exploit the law in connivance with police authorities and deal with the regular joes in this country.

https://www.nairaland.com/8468813/cybercrimes-act-now-force-fg

A lot of people will go to jail with this new cybercrime law, especially people on twitter.

Make everybody just thread carefully online going forward o.

All those sharing of nooods, sharing of leaked official documents and even sharing of screenshots of private conversation will lead people to jail going by the provisions of this new law. Even using tribal/ethnic slurs and shooting skits that appear vulgar will lead to imprisonment.

Disclosure of Critical Infrastructure Information (Section 5):
Sharing classified or sensitive government or national infrastructure data with unauthorized individuals constitutes a grave offense.

Penalty: Up to 15 years imprisonment.

Recording Private Conversations (Section 10):
Recording conversations without proper authorization—even as a participant—is deemed a violation of privacy.

Inciting Ethnic or Religious Hatred (Section 24):
Any online or offline act aimed at provoking ethnic, tribal, or religious hatred is categorized under domestic terrorism. Investment opportunities

Penalty: Life imprisonment.

Online Harassment and Abuse (Section 22):
Posting vulgar, offensive, or indecent content with the intent to embarrass or cause distress constitutes online abuse.

Penalty: Up to 2 years imprisonment

GloriousGbola:
the reason colos makes people misbheave is because it is mixed with all sorts. you have no idea what you are getting. but if you are buying weed over the counter in a pharmacy or store, then it is put together in a proper process, much like actual cigarettes

we can make the same argument about alcohol causing crimes as well. which may be why hey had prohibition in the us in the 20s/30s

There will always be synthetic and adulterated weed whether u sell over the counter or not. Thank Goodness u used alcohol as example; shebi u know they sell adulterated alcohol almost everywhere ? Same would happen to weeed.

If u think accidental discharge by policemen is on the high side, wait till weeed is legalized. Even people who don't have mind to enter into crime, they will get inspiration from weed and give it their all.

Like Iamoyindamola posited, the only positive of legalizing weed id maybe potential revenue for government. But the downside is enormous

GloriousGbola:
you can see the volumes of weed being sold. that means there is a large client base for purchase.

don't think na only area boys and thugs indulging

they have already done same in the west

and funny enough, legalizing may make it safer as it will now be in the hands of businesses being regulated, not street hustlers who will mix and cut weed with all sorts

I don't see the bold happening.

Legalizing weeed in a poor country like Nigeria with tens of millions youth that are jobless will only lead to spike in crime rate.

Do u see videos of young boys taking colos misbehaving online? It can only get worse with the legalization o

GloriousGbola:
religious groups should not have any say in this

that is what secularism means

But religious organizations, customs and traditions actually shape what constitutes the moral of a society.

There's a reason why they are consulted when the government wants to embark on constitution review. They are stakeholders and in a democracy they will always be consulted.

I can tell u for free that if they want to legalize weed today and CAN,PFN, and Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) oppose the idea; it will almost not fly.

iamoyindamola:
Yes he was ignorant but we all know if these guys want to extort you
They don't want to know if you are knowledgeable or ignorant

I understand , but one should try and get conversant with the normal documents the police can request from u before person carry motor enter road.

If the guy had not mentioned it online, he would've lost the 80k and will be going about with the impression that there's a "permit to sell" somewhere he ought to have which he doesn't.

GloriousGbola:
with all the big bales of weed people are being caught with it may be time fro NDLEA and nigeria to look at legalizing it

if nothing else it is a potential forex earner

Legalize weed?

Do u think the various religious groups will agree to this ?

liveLongNprospa:
Ayiri money and clean?

Loooool.
The annoying part is he should be having clean money because of how long and how much he made/makes as a contractor to chevron.
This his brother arrested is probably the same one I met in escravos in 2018 working around the airstrip side.

I don't understand greed guy.

NOT CELAN. I have modified my post , I wanted to write not clean ni o.

iamoyindamola:
You guys always say it like it easy and we are not in Nigeria
We know what these people can do, if they harm him or even kill him we will say he should have listened to them
IMO, he did the right thing and still got his money
Always remember dead man don't tell tales
Unless they don't have guns you can argue your way out

Read what I wrote there again.

I didn't say he should fight with them bro. All I said was that he ought to know the papers a car owner should have and if they ask him for any paper outside the regular ones he should tell them with confidence there is nothing like that.

If they ask him to go to station , he should follow them. When they get to station, he should let their oga know the paper they are asking for is not required/genuine. If they insisit, he should leave but promise them he will report to the authorities.

They will either release his vehicle to him or call his bluff and find out like they just did.

I said all these because it was obvious from the guy's original story that he didn't know the paper they requested from him does not even exist. They just saw him as ignorant and extorted him based on that. He was only able to recover the money because he made mention of the incident online.

https://www.nairaland.com/8468313/ndlea-announces-arrest-drug-kingpin

I don't know if it's just me, but I just think this Ayiri Emami's money is not clean. I know he is not the one arrested by NDLEA but his relative in the picture shaking hands with Tinubu; but I just feel Ayiri himself is not clean.

The way Ayiri always flaunts luxury with no traceable and verifiable legit business to his name, he gives the vibe of someone who might be running this Ajetsibo guy.

iamoyindamola:
Really?
I thought all Yoruba traditional rulers have abobaku

The practise has long been abolished in most Yoruba towns na. Modernization has made most of those practise like human sacrifice to be abolished.

You can't just take the life of a fellow human all in the name of tradition and customs when there's government. That person will just do jail

iamoyindamola:
Izzou
He got his money back
https://www.nairaland.com/8468541/gotten-back-80000-naira-police

Good for him.

It was fear and him not thinking straight that made him lose the money in the first place. The police men worked on his ignorance to make him part with his money. Normally as a person who puts a car on the road , person supposed know the basic requirements police are expected to request from u for checking.

Once the police are mentioning any document that u've never heard of, u supposed challenge them to tell u the law requesting u to have such documents. If dem wan impound ur car, let them do it but threaten them u will report the case to the state police command afterwards. If it is illegal extortion, they will quickly compose themselves and allow u go with ur car to avoid wahala .

iamoyindamola:
Did abobaku follow him

I don't think they have Abobaku tradition in Ibadan o

https://www.nairaland.com/8468780/olubadan-ibadan-oba-olakulehin-dead

Olubadan has joined his ancestors.

The former Governor of Oyo state; Rasheed Ladoja is the next in line as he is currently Otun Olubadan.

Theflint1:
The point was clear enough from the video, you missed it.

Prospa clued you in, and you still didn't get it.

You've finally come to the point the man was making and instead of taking the L, want to pass the buck to your uncle in the village. Not happening, this one's on you.

E be things.

popizaino:
Bad roads and rituals are the trademark of ogun state.

Meanwhile,Adeleke is trying in osun state. I was in his hometown Ede some couple of days ago and i was surprised how he has transformed the place. Aside that, he is also touching most parts of the state and also treating the civil servants well. If there is a gubernatorial election in osun tomorrow,Adeleke will win effortlessly.

But most of the APC boys on twitter are saying he only dances and has nothing to show as achievement of his administration .

I guess all that one is just politics .

iamoyindamola:
Lol
Dapo doing well but you can't see it because you don't stay in ogun

Dapo Danu 😂

popizaino:
May God deliver Ogun state and Nigeria from terrible roads one day.

Jackson Adeleke is even better this one.

I’ve not been to Osun, but u see roads in Ogun state ehn….. they are in terrible mess (most especially areas of Ogun state that borders Lagos state ).

You will be traveling from Lagos state and once u enter Ogun state u will just start seeing bad roads everywhere . I no even know how the guy feels comfortable with the call-out his government gets almost every day

GloriousGbola:
We are running gregorian calendar. With weekend on Sunday and Saturday. In the middle east weekend is Friday.

Go up north and the same applies.

That is want the man is trying to push for

I know . The man is mixing the Gregorian calendar which is adopted in most secular states with his own agenda of Nigeria tilting towards being a quasi-Islamic state .

He’s making an argument that suggests that Saturday and Sunday which are weekends are deliberately decided to favor Christian’s when it’s not . Like u rightly said , states that are Islamic states fixed their weekend to Friday . The Jewish state of Israel makes Saturday a no-work day .

He is a professor and should know that Nigeria is a secular state na.

Ibukzy:
Obidients as a group don’t have any principles, nah anywhere belle face dem be

Just for clarification sake , I hope u and others know that not everybody who voted for Obi in the 2023 presidential elections are “OBIDIENTS” Wno don’t have any principles like u posited here .

I can speak for myself and not anybody else. I will speak thus:

1. I voted for Obi because he has the least baggage when u look at the the top 4 candidates fielded by various political parties as far as corruption and cutting down on cost of governance is concerned ( Out of Tinubu , Atiku , Obi and Kwankwanso it is a no brainer that Obi is the least corrupt and would prioritize cutting down on government officials’ excessive spending ).

2. If we are presented with the same choice again, I would vote Obi over and over again without batting an eyelid .

3. As of today, I won’t vote a coalition that has El-Rufai as one of its top voices . I also won’t vote a coalition that Isa Pantami as one of its leading voices . Pantami was on record to have sympathized with Boko Haram and Osama Bin Laden in the early 2000’s . It is a matter of principle , people like that don’t belong close to the seat of power because of how dangerous they are . Obi aligning with them won’t make me ever endorse people like that either directly or indirectly .

4. People like Tinubu should do not belong to ruling a country like Nigeria battling with rebranding its image in the international space . The fact that someone who forfeited over 460k USD traced to herioine trade to the US authorities made it to the op to become the president of this country should make anybody sick 🤮. The fact that he hasn’t turned a new leaf by awarding contracts without following due process and appointing people like Abacha’s bag man ( Atiku Bagudu ) as minister for budget should repulse anybody that still has a shroud of integrity .

5. One does not need to speak so much grammar to see that Tinubu’s policies in the last 2 years has pushed more Nigerians further below poverty line . It’s not everybody that speak truth to this fact that are suffering , but one should not be heartless enough to believe anybody saying things the way they are do it for political reasons . We are humans first before being political beings .

How the Lagos based yahoo boy defrauded Donald Trump of $250,300. Omo! 😯 pic.twitter.com/A8mgKzHyln

— 𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 (@AsakyGRN) July 5, 2025

Iamoyindamola

This guy's analysis of the the Aigbokhan's case shows Aigbokhan is definitely not innocent or trader.

The person that registers the fake domain name is Aigbokhan, the person that controlled the crypto wallet is Aigbokhan and every other thing points to him

raumdeuter:
What is wrong in the interview and what is different from the interviews he has been giving when under Jonathan as a minister or under PDP as governor

Its this hypocrisy about you where you hyperventilate about anyone supporting Tinubu without any real content

Its small small boys who lick assess of politicians that get swayed by emotional rants and not elderly persons who can see things for themselves

I will not waste my time responding further since u don't have a problem with the video. I don't have time for Ur imaginary APC vs Others Bs.

Shebi Semid and others who had issues with the video are also hypocrites who hate Tinubu and his supporters àbí? 😏

raumdeuter:
Just to point out that Wike was a Minister in the days of PDP under Jonathan.
A state governor under PDP helped into power by Jonathan

TemporaryHansel did you have a problem with Wike working with Jonathan as a minister or as a 2 time governor in PDP?


So how do you think his conduct has changed from then or how many times were you critical of his conduct back then

Make one wonder if your disgust is not really with his conduct but the politician who ypu do not like that he supports

If u watched the video in the post u quoted and don't see anything wrong with Wike then I have nothing to say to u.

U are an elderly person and I actually think reasoning along the line of what U wrote in the bold part of Ur post should be expected from all those small small boys online who make a living from lickking the assess of politicians.