LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Mission in Nigeria has debunked the rumour that it’s no longer issuing student visa to Nigerians. On its verified Twitter handle, @USEmbassyAbuja, the mission wrote, “#FakeNews Alert! Be advised, reports of Student Visa ban for Nigerians is false. If you have seen such manufactured item on Facebook and Twitter…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters torched the access gate to the U.S. Embassy in the Honduran capital on Friday during a second day of major protests against President Juan Orlando Hernandez. The protesters set fire to the entrance of the building in downtown Tegucigalpa with about a dozen tires after dousing them with fuel, Reuters witnesses…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The embassy of the United States of America in Nigeria says its consular services are open and advised those with scheduled appointments to visit the facilities in Lagos and Abuja. The announcement was made in a tweet on New Year Day. The embassy had previously shut its doors to consular services at the…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man detonated an explosive device outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday, injuring himself but no one else, police said. The explosion happened about 1 p.m. local time just outside the embassy’s southeast corner, an embassy spokesman said. The embassy confirmed that the man who detonated the device was the…