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The United States Embassy in Nigeria has quietly begun revoking valid visas previously issued to Nigerian citizens, leaving professionals, entrepreneurs, frequent travellers, and families stranded with disrupted plans and mounting costs.

Former Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, Olufemi Soneye, made this know in an article yesterday titled: ‘The quiet revocation: Why is the U.S. silently cancelling Nigerians’ visas?’

According to him, several affected individuals have confirmed receiving official letters from the embassy in recent weeks, instructing them to submit their passports at the consulate in Lagos or Abuja. Upon submission, their visas were summarily cancelled without explanation.

The cancellation notices, citing Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 41.122, vaguely stated that “new information became available after the visa was issued,” but provided no details, evidence, or avenues for appeal.

Among those impacted are a prominent journalist, the head of a federal government agency scheduled to deliver an international address, and an Abuja-based entrepreneur with a spotless travel record. Others include professionals and frequent travellers who rely on visas for education, family reunions, medical treatment, and critical business engagements.

Several were forced to cancel overseas trips at short notice, refund tickets, and explain to partners why they could no longer attend important meetings.

In some cases, travellers only discovered the cancellations at airports and boarding gates, with a few briefly detained by immigration officials before being turned back.

Despite the gravity of the situation, the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria nor Nigerian authorities have issued a public statement addressing the wave of cancellations, leaving affected citizens in limbo.

Those affected insist they have never overstayed visas, violated immigration rules, or raised security concerns. The sudden revocations have therefore sparked growing fears of a quiet but targetted tightening of U.S. visa policy against Nigerians.

Analysts point to longstanding scrutiny of applicants from high-migration countries, with Nigeria often singled out.

Policy documents from previous U.S. administrations encouraged consular officers to apply heightened review standards to certain nationalities, raising concerns that the current wave of cancellations may be a continuation of that practice.

budaatum:
Can you guess my tribes too?

Maybe seun is anti my tribes?

Dear Nigerians,

I took an oath to serve all Nigerians, not a section. That oath guides every bridge, road, rail, power, and health project we deliver.

From the Lagos–Calabar Highway in the South to the Sokoto–Badagry Superhighway in the North; from Port Harcourt–Maiduguri rail in the East to Abuja–Kaduna–Kano expressway in the Centre, and the Trans-Saharan highway connecting African countiries, these are not local trophies. They are our national assets.

Health centres are being rehabilitated nationwide, light rail projects in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos & Ogun have been given the green light, 250,000 jobs are being created, power is returning to Kaduna through the revived 255MW power plant, bridges in Onitsha & Bonny reconnect our people, oil exploration is expanding in Bauchi & Gombe, and the AKK pipeline has crossed the Niger.

Every farmer who needs a road, every trader who needs power, every child who needs a school, every patient who needs care… this is who we are building for.

This is the equity of Renewed Hope. No Nigerian is second class, no region is left behind. Together we will rise as one nation, one people, and one destiny.

Bet on Nigeria.

~ President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Godfullsam:
Several election results have shown that anyone can win an election without the south east.

If any region should be boasting of not voting for a candidate, it should not be the SE .
The SE votes in any election has little or not effect.
Buhari won twice without the SE votes, balablu won in 2023 without significant votes from SE

The SE can't threaten anyone with their votes.
In fact, those candidates that got massive votes from that region always lose election.

Antivirus92:
Muppets......

You all live in Osun, ogun, Ekiti etc but know what is happening in anambra more than Ndi anambra themselves.

Imagine beer parlour gist not to vote for ngige because he's too short. You guys are terribly irredemable

kpankpangolo:
Someone should explain how a leg amputation can lead to death when the person does not suffer from diabetes.

SarkinYarki:
Dangote failed to airlift the girl out

It’s sad to see how Governor Peter Obi of Anambra has made himself a bewildering figure. That a man whose political stock was once solid would so abjectly fail to rise to people’s expectations is – there’s no other way to put it – a matter of profound tragedy.

Mr. Obi rose to the nation’s admiration when he rejected all entreaties to forego the gubernatorial mandate that the people of Anambra had given him in 2003, and which the PDP and its candidate, Chris Ngige, had usurped. Spurning misguided pleas to “leave everything to God,” he sought the reclamation of his mandate with a stubbornness that was refreshing to encounter in a Nigerian politician. In the end, he (and the people of Anambra) secured victory. His profile rose even further when he persuaded the Supreme Court to dismiss Andy Uba, a former presidential aide, from Government House, Awka. Mr. Uba, thanks to Obasanjo and Maurice Iwu, had been enthroned as Anambra governor.

Given his history, Mr. Obi’s political currency ought to lie in how jealously he guards his reputation as an espouser and defender of electoral integrity. Instead, with former Information Minister Dora Akunyili as his accomplice, Governor Obi has all but wasted this particular currency. And he has squandered this resource, paradoxically, in pursuit of power by all means. This particular obsession has magnified the governor’s shockingly small-minded statecraft.

For a man who has been a victim of electoral fraud, Mr. Obi’s conduct in the April 9 National Assembly elections is, quite simply, appalling.

Let’s begin with the campaigns. Mr. Obi and his team of handpicked candidates had entered the campaigns on a huge deficit. The governor’s political crisis was self-inflicted.

First, the governor’s party, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), had alienated party faithful by handing its tickets to elements that had just landed – expediently – from the PDP planet. As I wrote here a few weeks ago, Mr. Obi (along with APGA’s chairman, Mr. Victor Umeh) betrayed Anambra when he invited Chuma Nzeribe, an unpalatable political figure, to take one of the party’s senatorial tickets. Mr. Nzeribe was a prominent – and to this day unapologetic – member of the cabal that was empowered by former President Obasanjo to turn Anambra into what I once called a theater of absurdity.

It was bad enough that APGA fielded the likes of Nzeribe. That treachery was then compounded by the fact that, before choosing the PDP turncoats, the party had collected steep fees from longtime party members interested in the various elective posts. Is it not repellent conduct to collect fees from would-be candidates when the party’s plan was to embrace an all-PDP slate?

What’s more, Mr. Obi’s political capital in the state had become terribly meager. In the state’s governorship election of February 2010, many Catholic priests had made the deplorable blunder of proclaiming from the pulpit that Mr. Obi was the beloved political son both of God and the Pope. But soon after the election was concluded, many of Mr. Obi’s ecclesiastical supporters began to regret ever championing him. They suddenly beheld a man who is in the main self-absorbed, with scant concern for the well being of the governed. As I write, medical doctors as well as judiciary workers in the state have been on strike for several weeks. Yet, a governor who was sold to voters as commissioned by God and the pope has not deigned to enter into serious negotiations in order to resolve issues. Does the governor derive perverse pleasure from watching patients go through agonizing pain and even death because he’s too preoccupied to talk with striking doctors? How about the fact that he’s treated with disdain the state workers’ demand for the implementation of minimum wage standards?

If his nonchalance towards striking workers is ghastly, the way he conducted the campaigns for his legislative candidates was unbecoming of a man and governor. In fact, I was so ashamed of the governor’s reported utterances that I made efforts to ring him up and tell him that he ought to know better.

If his nonchalance towards striking workers is ghastly, the way he conducted the campaigns for his legislative candidates was unbecoming of a man and governor. In fact, I was so ashamed of the governor’s reported utterances that I made efforts to ring him up and tell him that he ought to know better.

Several witnesses told me how, at campaign stumps with Mrs. Akunyili, Governor Obi told his audience not to vote for Mr. Ngige because the man is too short. Then he permitted campaign posters to be circulated in which the image of Mr. Ngige, a medical doctor and candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), was aligned with those of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and former Governor Bola Tinubu. By contrast, the governor’s candidates were lined up with the late Owelle Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ikemba Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The sordid idea was to portray Ngige as belonging to a “Yoruba team.”

It beggars belief that a governor, any governor, would see fit to make his opponent’s height a campaign issue. Such an untoward focus on somebody’s physique is utterly immature and speaks to a bankruptcy of ideas. Does it mean that Mr. Obi believes a person’s height to correlate to ability? Does he consider himself more intelligent, more capable or morally astute than everybody who’s shorter than he? For that matter, does he believe himself to be inferior to all taller people? For if height is a criterion of stellar leadership, then we must wonder how Mr. Obi became a governor. Alas, Anambra boasts many, many men and women who are taller than he is.

It is similarly appalling that a governor who reportedly has ambitions for higher political office could not restrain himself from disparaging Mr. Ngige as a Yoruba candidate. Even if we accepted the silly argument that the ACN was a Yoruba party – so what? Is the governor allergic to forging political alliances with the Yoruba? Is he not aware that such appeals to base, ethnic sentiments would return to haunt him if he ever seeks to be a political player at the national level? At any rate, was Mr. Obi not chastened by the fact that the ACN is sweeping the southwest and making inroads elsewhere in the nation, while he and his cohorts have left APGA bereft of electoral prospects anywhere? If any proof is needed, it suffices to see how Andy Uba trounced Obi’s man, Chuma Nzeribe.

Campaigning for Mrs. Akunyili, Governor Obi often reached for cheap blackmail. He threatened to deny, or pull projects as political appointments from communities that failed to vote for his candidates. In making these threats, he forgot that the people hired him for the job – and that he serves at their pleasure.

Apparently, the people of Anambra were determined to take the risk. Most of the governor’s candidates were thrashed. Many people in Anambra are certain that Mrs. Akunyili, the candidate most after the governor’s heart, was also decisively defeated. The haste with which she’s seeking a re-run of the senatorial race with Mr. Ngige suggests that she knows, deep down, that she was roundly beaten on April 9. It would amount to a monumental injustice to the voters of Anambra to revisit an election that became competitive only after the shameless manipulation that took place in Anaocha Local Government Area. The APGA team should not be rewarded with an undeserved re-run. INEC chairman Attahiru Jega should insist that the investigative panel he set up deploy forensic technology to probe the votes in Anaocha. I believe such a test would unmask a narrative of stuffed ballots.

It’s odd and disturbing that Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra, would appoint Charles Esinone, a professor of pharmacy, as the new returning officer for the Anambra Central senatorial zone. The fact that Mr. Esinone and Mrs. Akunyili were colleagues in the same department at the University of Nigeria casts serious doubt about the returning officer’s impartiality.

Mr. Obi’s less than inspiring performance as a governor is, ultimately, responsible for his candidates’ electoral misfortunes. Rededicating himself to the service of the people of Anambra – rather than gubernatorial threats to his employers and obtuse politicking – is the only way to rebuild his tarnished political career.

Human rights lawyer and political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has intensified his criticism of Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, accusing him of political inconsistency, dishonesty, and attempting to compromise him with money during the buildup to last year’s general election.

Obi Left APGA Despite Sworn Oath.
Adeyanju, in an interview on Channels Television on Friday, described Obi as a “political fraud” who reneged on a public vow never to abandon the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the party under which he first rose to prominence.

“What did I say? That he is a political fraud, parading himself as a messiah. Of course, he is. Didn’t he swear never to leave APGA? Yet he left. That makes him a political fraud,” Adeyanju stated.

He went further to brand Obi a “political prostitute” for what he called his opportunistic cross-carpeting between parties whenever it suited his ambitions.

‘Hobnobbing With Criminal Structures’
Adeyanju accused Obi of contradicting his own rhetoric by now courting alliances with parties and politicians he once condemned.

“Look at him today: the same people he called operators of a ‘structure of criminality’ are the ones he’s now courting. One leg in PDP, another leg in ADC, and still in Labour Party. Confused politician,” the activist said.

Toxicity of the Obidient Movement
The lawyer further alleged that Obi’s supporters, popularly known as Obidients, created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation during the last election cycle.

“Obidient mobs became practically uncontrollable. They threatened Supreme Court and Appeal Court judges, harassed artists, insulted Prof. Wole Soyinka, and attacked almost everybody who criticized Obi. We had never seen that level of toxicity in Nigerian politics before, except perhaps under Buhari,” he said.

‘Let Obi Do His Worst’
Adeyanju stressed that he was not afraid of possible litigation, arguing that the truth is a defence in defamation.

“Everything I said about Obi was true. In a civil or criminal defamation case, truth is a defence. So if he wants to do his worst, let him,” he declared.

Background: Obi’s Political Journey
Peter Obi first entered national politics as a member of APGA and was elected governor of Anambra State. Though initially ousted by Chris Ngige of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Obi regained his mandate after a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2006.

Obi governed Anambra under APGA until 2014, when he defected to the PDP, pledging allegiance to former President Goodluck Jonathan and promising to help strengthen the party in the South-East.

His defection drew criticism at the time, given his earlier vow never to abandon APGA, a party he had described as representing the Igbo political identity.

In May 2022, Obi left the PDP abruptly, complaining about internal party structures, and joined the Labour Party, under which he contested the 2023 presidential election.

He positioned himself as an alternative to Nigeria’s dominant political blocs, portraying the Labour Party as the platform of a “new Nigeria.”

However, since his loss to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Obi has been accused of quietly courting political alliances with both the PDP and the African Democratic Congress (ADC), while being a member of the Labour Party.

questioner:
I did a business about 2 years ago outside of my 9 -5 and got reimbursed a pretty sum.

I had a plan that I started working on late last year, hoping it will materialize by mid this year but it fell through.
This week I just decided I wasn't going that line again.

I need to chart a new course by max early 2026

What's been running through my head now is
1. Japa - Leave thru the Acad route and when done, see what's next
2. Land - Buy in a good location and possibly 2 (or multiple) plots
3. House - Buy a small piece in a modest location and build 2 units of small apartment, one for rent, one for personal usage


Just decided to put this out there anonymously - If you were in my shoes which option will you choose, which will you definitely avoid and importantly why ?

Number of foreign born founders who founded billion dollar American companies:

India - 66
Israel - 54
United Kingdon - 27
Canada - 22
China - 21
France - 18
Germany - 15
Russia - 11
Ukraine - 10
Iran - 8
Australia - 7
Italy - 6
Nigeria - 6
Poland - 6
Romania - 6
Argentina - 5
Brazil - 5
New Zealand - 5
Pakistan - 5
South Korea - 5
Denmark - 4
Portugal - 4
Spain - 4
Belarus - 3
Bulgaria - 3
Ireland - 3
Kenya - 3
Lebanon - 3
Philippines - 3
South Africa - 3
Taiwan - 3
Turkey - 3
Armenia - 2
Czech - 2
Greece - 2
Mexico - 2
Saudi Arabia - 2
Singapore - 2
Switzerland - 2
Uzbekistan - 2
Austria - 1
Bangladesh - 1
Colombia - 1
Egypt - 1

Racoon:
The demographics in the SW may not be unusual. The most vocal of ebinpawa have been coming from there especially in Isale Eko and Mushin.

MY SINCERE APOLOGIES

I am writing to express my sincerest apologies for my recent decision to decamp from PDP to ADC on August 1, 2025. I realize now that I made a grave mistake by leaving the People's Democratic Party (PDP), a party that has nurtured my political career for 24 years.

I want to apologize to the entire PDP leadership, members, and supporters for my actions. I have come to appreciate the values of truth, justice, and internal democracy that PDP stands for.

The party's ability to resolve internal issues and its commitment to the country's progress have reaffirmed my decision to return to the People's democratic party PDP

I am particularly impressed by the leadership of our National Chairman, which demonstrates PDP's capacity to win the 2027 elections. I firmly believe my impact will be more significant in PDP than in any other party.

Following the urging of my ward, local government, state, and national leaders, I have decided to return to PDP with my supporters. I pledge to work tirelessly for the party's victory in 2027.

Thank you for considering my apology. I look forward to contributing to PDP's growth.
Sincerely,

Comr. Odih Rowland

PDP receives Odih Rowland, tells him the PDP is where the youths future truly is

......assures him that the PDP is fully ready as the country's only realistic alternative party for 2027

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday, August 28, 2025 received back youth advocate, Comrade Odih Rowland.

Odih Rowland was received back at the PDP National Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday after his short exit from the party.

His exit from the PDP which was short-lived was voided after he had a meeting with the leadership of the PDP who assured him that the PDP is where the future of the youths truly is.

Odih Rowland was received back into the PDP by the PDP National Publicity Secretary and the PDP National Financial Secretary.

Apcshit:
Why are they ki lling the igbos for crying out loud

MrSly:
The usually wild and wide mouthed chest beater. I am watching yours and tinubu's pettiness. At the end it is what it is. You cannot run past your shadow.

Okwyjesus:
Am scared of lgbos retaliation. Aba and Onitsha boys no dey word.

God help Nigeria and put sense in our head.

MrSly:
Adeola, Tinubu was the one that asked MC Olumo to beat up igbos who did not vote him. He also empowered his wife to say unprintable things about Igbos. Tinubu is the chief tribal bigot. He deliberately planted ethnic divide to hide his abysmally and unimaginably poor leadership.

3 IPOB ESN boys shot by their boss (Ifeanyi Eze aka Gentle the yahoo) for "unauthorised" robbery.

I told them that one day even those wey dey support Nnamdi Kanu and his Biafra will no longer safe.

Obakoolex:
You are very wrong here, and I will correct you... Which king in all yorubaland has the power to appoint Are Ona kakanko? Bashorun? and any title that bears "of yorubaland"?
Only Iku baba yeye the Alaafin Ojo pa shekere Mami does.
And next time please don't talk about Ekiti not being under Oyo control then... Ekiti never existed in history of Yoruba, just a carve out of some Ondo few local governments by FG. IWATAGO?

Denko2721987:
Abeg make this nigha go sleep. He pettiness and overdo is becoming utterly disgusting.. Let him kukuma vet his people and send them to el salvador gang prison for rehabilitation.. Nonsense. He had my support when he was re-canvassing for elections but the guy is just becoming really annoying.. Overhyped overloaded 3rd world country