Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, has faulted former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for warning security agencies against using lethal force against looters and arsonists. Onanuga, in a statement on Tuesday, said Atiku, “this evening tweeted the absurd: he warned security...
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By JOY ADARA, Abuja- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has cautioned Nigerians wanting to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) against increased risk of violence in the place. The spokesperson of the Ministry, Amb. Eche Abu-Obe, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, in view of violence alert to...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Multiple consignments of illicit drugs concealed in tins of Cerelac baby food and cloths going to the United States and United Kingdom have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, and...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to travel to the UK medical treatment. The EFCC charged Emefiele with criminal breach of trust, forgery, conspiracy to obtain by...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted various quantities of cocaine and opioids such as tramadol, pentazocine injection, morphine sulphate and ketamine injection in Lagos. A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja said that the drugs were concealed...
Prisons are expected to reach full capacity within days, warned the Prison Governors Association (PGA) in England and Wales on Tuesday. “As this happens, courts and the police will no longer be able to freely and lawfully detain offenders,” said PGA in an open letter to political leaders in...
A vessel is believed to have sunk in the Red Sea a week after the ship was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi Rebels, UK authorities have said. Maritime debris and oil have been sighted in the vessel’s last reported location in the Red Sea. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the country will hold a general election on July 4. “I spoke with His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of parliament. The king has granted this request and we will have a general election on July 4,” Sunak said...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has said that the state has full of investment opportunities, especially in the area of agriculture Governor Alia disclosed this on Saturday, when he received a Member, House of Lords, United Kingdom, Baroness Sandip Verma, at Government...
The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Dr Richard Montgomery, on Sunday said trade relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) currently stands at about seven billion pounds sterling. Montgomery told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that Nigeria and the UK signed a new agreement...
The United kingdom (UK) says only international students coming in for their Doctor of Philosophy.(PhD) studies were eligible to bring in dependents to the country. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Richard Montgomery, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Dozens of people in two rubber dinghies reached the southern coast of England on Saturday, the latest among thousands of asylum-seeking migrants to make the risky sea crossing from France this year. Bobbing on the waves of the English Channel on a clear morning, the boats sailed across...
Chief Olufunke Arthur-Worrey, a 96-year old former President of the Lions club, has said that the subsisting crave of Nigerian youths seeking greener pasture abroad, otherwise known as “Japa’’, is uncalled for The Nonagenarian who relocated with her family from England to Nigeria in 1960, stated this in...
A Moroccan has been accused of knifing a pensioner to death in a UK street apparently in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict was turned down for asylum in Germany, his housemate told investigators. Ahmed Alid, 45, attacked sleeping Christian convert Javed Nouri at their shared accommodation in Wharton...
Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Friday announced that she has cancer and is in the early stages of chemotherapy, asking for “time, space and privacy” as she completes her treatment. Kate, as she is widely known, said the discovery of cancer, after successful abdominal surgery in...
In what was his first public appearance since reports of his death started spreading online, United Kingdom’s King Charles III hosted Korean War veterans at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. The royal family said this in a post on social media. “This morning, the King met veterans of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigerian Traditional Rulers Council, (NTRC) on Friday, urged the United Kingdom (UK) to discard visa ban calls on the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu by some person. This was contained in a letter addressed to the British High Commissioner, and...
Cabinet Minister Lucy Frazer on Monday said that British lawyers could be sent to Rwandan courts as part of a new treaty aimed at finally implementing the government’s plan to fly asylum seekers to the African nation. Home Secretary James Cleverly is said to be close to finalising...
Rwanda is to be given at least £15 million ($19 million) extra to sign a treaty with the UK to take migrants who arrive in Britain via small boats, it has been reported. British newspaper Sunday Times said the money would be on top of the £140 million already...