Diaspora News

THE percentage of diasporan Nigerians with National Identification Numbers rose to 25.17 per cent in May 2023. The National Identity Management Commission has registered 427,962 diasporan Nigerians since it launched …

*To participate in ‘Back to Black Festival’ in Rio, Sao Paulo, others In an exciting development for cultural exchange and intellectual dialogues, Nobel Prize-winning Professor Wole Soyinka has arrived in …

LAGOS-born Darrell Omo-Lamai has been awarded the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholar Award. The Knight-Hennessy Scholars is an international graduate-level scholarship program for study at Stanford University, California, United States. Omo-Lamai is …

Nigerian-American visual artist, Njideka Akunyili-Crosby, on Tuesday, May 23, wowed the global art community with the showcase of her painting collections at the first David Zwirner’s Art Gallery exhibition in …

THE Senate has confirmed the nomination of Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa for reappointment as the Chairman and CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) for a second term. President Muhammadu Buhari …

THE UK government has set a plan in motion to stop Nigerian students and other international students from bringing their families to the country. The move became necessary as official …

A NIGERIAN, Yemi Mobolade, has been elected the mayor of Colorado Springs, a municipality in Colorado in the United States. With his victory at the polls, Mobolade becomes the first …

NIGERIAN photographer Bolaji Alonge, Eyes of a Lagos Boy, presents his exhibition ICONIC LAGOS at this year’s Brighton Fringe Arts Festival in the UK, from 9 to 21 May 2023 at the Jubilee …

The annual Oil Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas regularly draws players in the industry from across the globe. Nigeria has never been found wanting. This year’s edition has afforded …

Manchester, UK – May 5th, 2023 – Hilaria Asumu, a kidney patient who received a life-saving transplant in 2018, has been elected as a councillor for Walkden South in the …