Tag: United States of America

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and thousands of businesses are scrambling  to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking ...

The United States embassy in Khartoum, Sudan has announced the formal removal of Sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism ...

Nigeria has denied the allegation, by the United States, of engaging in systematic and egregious religious freedom violations. In a ...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying four astronauts docked with the International Space Station Monday, the first of what NASA hopes ...

Iran has denied a report that a leader of terrorist group al-Qaeda was killed in its capital Tehran in August. ...

Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, indicted in the US for the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly killed ...

The United States and Nigeria according to the United States Department of State look forward to convening a virtual meeting ...

The Republican Presidential candidate and incumbent, Donald Trump trails Biden in national opinion polls ahead of Tuesday’s Election Day but ...

US forces have rescued an American hostage in Nigeria, the Pentagon said on Saturday. The man who was abducted in ...

Twenty-seven high achieving students have been granted full study scholarship in various universities in the United States of America. The students were given pre-orientation at the US embassy in Abuja to make their stay and integration seamless. The dwindling standards of education in Nigeria, has made  study beyond the shores of the country an attractive prospect for as many that can afford  the cost. The high costs of achieving this has made it  the sole preserve the reserve of the rich and just a dream for the less privileged. The United States Embassy through its Education USA has created an opportunity fund programme for very brilliant students who fall into the category of the less privileged The programme which started in 2004 has given thousands of opportunities to Nigerian students who could not afford it. One of such students is Abraham Ojima that i met at the embassy.  He told TVC News his very compelling story of hope and perseverance. Abraham got a $76,000 scholarship from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania to study computer Science and Neuro Science, but the journey before the scholarship wasn't an easy one He completed his secondary education in 2016 and could not go further due to paucity of funds as the daily income his mother who sells Kunu along the Karu Suburb of Abuja, is less than 2000 naira, and she has 4 children to feed The United States Institutions are giving Scholarships worth $7.2M, that is N2.58Billion to deserving Nigerian Students in the 2018/2019 session The Acting Deputy of Mission says beyond the cultural exchanges, the students to bring back the experiences for an enduring change in Nigeria In every three ...