The United Kingdom Embassy in Nigeria has announced a temporary suspension of study, work, and family visa applications, as priority is now being placed on applications made under the Ukraine Family Scheme. The Embassy announced this in a statement shared on Tuesday on their official social media handles. According...
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Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, on Tuesday said the war in Ukraine was likely to be over by early May when Russia would have run out of resources to attack its neighbour. Talks between Kyiv and Moscow in which Arestovich was not personally...
Ukraine’s government continues to function, the banking system is stable and debt payments are viable in the short term, but the Russian invasion could plunge Ukraine into a devastating recession, the International Monetary Fund said Monday. And it warned that the war could have broader repercussions, including threatening global...
Ukrainian forces have released a new update on the losses incurred by the Russian military as of March 13, 2022. The Russian military has allegedly lost 12,000 troops, 74 planes, 86 helicopters, 374 tanks, 140 artillery weapons, 1226 Armored Personnel Carriers, 2 boats, 600 vehicles, 60 fuel tanks, 7...
A former Russian Minister, Andrei Kozyrev, has disclosed what may likely happen to President Vladimir Putin for ordering an invasion of Ukraine. Kozyrev disclosed that Putin could be ousted by an internal Kremlin coup. He stressed that some key figures in the Kremlin may be plotting Putin’s downfall due...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government on Saturday said it has evacuated no fewer than 301 stranded Nigerians from Ukraine amidst Russia attacks on multiple fronts through Budapest. This is according to a statement issued by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) through its verified Twitter handles:...
Roman Abramovich has been disqualified as a director of Chelsea by the board of the Premier League in England, but the club’s sale is expected to progress with British government oversight. The sanctioning of Blues owner Abramovich by the government on Thursday saw the Russian-Israeli billionaire’s British assets frozen,...
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service on March 7, 2022, shows rescuers dismantling the rubble of a destroyed school after Russian troops shelled the city of Chernihiv. PHOTO: STR / Ukrainian State Emergency Service / AFP The mayor of southern Ukraine’s Melitopol has...
Facebook and Instagram users will have the freedom to call for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers. The option will be made available in some countries, BBC has reported. Meta says it has temporarily made allowances for some violent speech, like “death to the Russian invaders,” that would...
Three-quarters of Russians trusted President Vladimir Putin and 76 per cent assess his professional performance positively, a poll conducted by Russia’s Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) showed on Friday. Asking about their assessment of Putin’s professional performance, 76 per cent of respondents said he was doing rather well, 13 per...
Many Russian tanks have been destroyed by the Ukrainian army after they ambushed a convoy of Russian tanks heading toward the capital. The convoy was ambushed with precision artillery just as it passed through a small residential stretch of a paved four-lane road 25 kilometres from downtown Kyiv. Tanks...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that Western penalties against Moscow for its military incursion in Ukraine would destabilise the global energy and food markets and vowed the country would emerge stronger from the crisis. Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine that began on February 24 has triggered unprecedented...
No fewer than 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war on February 24, a Ukrainian parliament official said on Thursday. “From the start of the Russian invasion and up to 11:00 am (0900 GMT) on March 10, 71 children have been...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – The Minister of State Petroleum Resources Chief Timipre Sylva has called on the United States (US) Government to provide funding support for Nigeria to develop its natural gas resources to serve as alternative source of energy for Europe. The call by Sylva is coming...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Following the rising spate of insecurity bedeviling the country, The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has said that until all the states are secured, no single citizen is safe. Governor Tambuwal, who discloses this on Wednesday, when he received the Minister of Foreign Affairs,...
Civilians in Ukraine are allowed to open fire on troops identifiable as hostile forces under a new law that went into effect this week, Ukrainian media reports. According to the law, which went into effect on Monday, foreigners and the stateless living legally in the country can also obtain...
The Ukrainian army on Thursday said it was slowing down and holding back the Russian offensive two weeks into the conflict. The Ukrainian general staff said in a bulletin that in some operational areas, Russian units had lost their fighting strength and were bringing in reserves. Russian forces were...
Russia on Wednesday warned the West that it was working on a broad response to sanctions that would be swift and felt in the West’s most sensitive areas. Russia’s economy is facing the gravest crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union after the West imposed crippling sanctions...
U.S President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that the United States would no longer allow for the importation of Russian oil, the latest sanction to punish Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. Biden who announced the sanction from the White House said Russian oil would no longer be accepted...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Nigeria and other countries that have very close economic links with Ukraine and Russia are at risk of scarcity and supply disruptions. It added that poor households across the world would suffer from the increase in food and...