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...
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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...
Spotify, a global online streaming platform, says Davido’s music is most streamed in United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada and France. Victor Okpala, Spotify’s Artiste and Label Partnerships Manager for West Africa, in a statement on Tuesday said songs by Davido featured on over 10 million user-generated playlists on Spotify. According...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – A humanitarian intervention focused on providing integrated food, nutrition sanitation and protection services in Nigeria’s north-east region will empower over 300,000 mothers and caregivers. The intervention is aimed at enhancing dietary practices, home-based malnutrition screening skills, provision of high impact lifesaving nutrition interventions (such...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on Sunday depart Abuja for London, UK, where he will deliver a public lecture at King’s College, London. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said the lecture was part of activities for the...
The United Kingdom has earmarked 10 million pounds grant for innovators in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia, and South Africa to address the energy situation . Mr Joshua Adedeji, Knowledge Transfer Manager for the Innovate UK Nigeria, said this in statement at the end of an Energy Catalyst meeting...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the United Kingdom’s His Royal Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was signed yesterday with the aim of fostering improved collaboration on capacity building between the two tax authorities. The two agencies signed...
Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move to follow other Western countries who have barred the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns. TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny due to fears that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based...
