The Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Caroline Adepoju, has said that the service would open more passport service points to meet the needs of Nigerians in the Diaspora. Adepoju said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja that efforts...
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The United Kingdom (UK) has updated its travel requirements for people wishing to enter the country. The UK on Monday, September 4 announced that Nigerians and other citizens, except British and Irish nationals, wishing to enter the country must apply for Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). The new rule...
President Bola Tinubu has recalled Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Ishola. Ishola was appointed by former President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021. However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Maltama Tuggar, in a letter dated August 31, 2023, stated that the...
Former Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been charged with bribery offences relating to her time as Nigeria’s oil minister, the United Kingdom (UK) National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Tuesday. Alison-Madueke, 63, has been on bail since first being arrested in London in October 2015. She will...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A coalition of UK and Nigeria based NGOs has used the International Day Against Witch Hunts on 10th August to call for government and key partners to join hands to implement the UN resolution on the elimination of witchcraft. According to the coalition,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has called on the government of the United Kingdom to deepen its partnership with Nigeria and Africa by investing more across sectors to see the African continent attain more sustainable and broad-based prosperity. President Tinubu made the call on...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says it has thwarted attempt by a drug suspect, Igboma Ifeanyi to export quantities of Loud, a variant of Cannabis, Tramadol and Rohypnol. NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said that...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Ije McDougall (nee Iheme), a United Kingdom based Nigerian woman has won the ‘Cheshire Woman of the Year’ 2023 for touching the lives of the less privileged in Nigeria and the UK. Speaking with journalists in a WhatsApp video interview, she expressed shock at...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu, has left France for London, United Kingdom, for a short private visit. Recalled that the president was initially scheduled to be back in Abuja on Saturday frim Paris. The Special Adviser Special Duties, Communications & Strategy to the President, Dele...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Sen. Kashim Shettima has called for stronger relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) given the long standing historical antecedents, business activities and shared interests between the two countries. Vice President Shettima made the call today during a courtesy visit...
Several countries on Monday formally presented their goodwill messages and letters of support and solidarity to President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A statement by Tunde Rahman, Office of the President, on Monday, said the letters were presented to the president by the special envoys and heads...
A British man has been given a life sentence for travelling to Syria to join so-called Islamic State (IS) nine years ago. Shabazz Suleman, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was 18 when he disappeared while on a family holiday to Turkey in 2014. The former grammar school boy was arrested...
The UK government on Tuesday announced a package of measures aimed at international students, including a ban on some family members, as ministers come under growing pressure to cut immigration. After a drop during the pandemic, net migration has been steadily on the rise and is reportedly expected to...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Spotify, global streaming platform, says the African Heat playlist is mostly streamed in the United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands and Canada. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music for Africa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lagos, said this...
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after joining other world leaders to attend the coronation of His Majesty, King Charles III as King of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Commonwealth. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian leader, who returned to Abuja on...
London’s Metropolitan police on Monday confirmed that at least 64 people were arrested in UK’s capital during the coronation of Charles III on May 6. Earlier, the police said that over 50 people were detained during the event. The police’s statement said “as part of the policing operation in...
In what some analysts have described as a “`fall from grace to grass”, former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu was on May 5, sentenced to nine years and eight months in jail after a United Kingdom (UK) court found him, his wife, and his doctor culpable in...
Charles III will be crowned king on Saturday in a solemn Christian ceremony steeped in 1,000 years of history and tradition, but adapted to reflect 21st-century Britain. St Edward’s Crown — a solid gold, sacred symbol of the monarch’s authority used only once in their reign — will be...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will depart for London, United Kingdom later today, Wednesday, May 3 to join other world leaders invited to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort of the...
The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Office has revealed how the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi was harassed by immigration officers at Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom. Spokesman for the Campaign Council, Diran Onifade, in a statement on Wednesday said the former Anambra State governor was detained...