Tag: UK
Nigeria working to improve business environment, Osinabjo tells UK MPs
The Federal Government has directed the Ministry of Trade and Investment to raise the ease of doing business to attract…
James Ibori: UK MPs probe police corruption during trial
Embattled Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe will be grilled by MPs next week over bombshell claims that Scotland Yard…
Buhari departs for France, UK Tuesday
President Muhammadu Buhari will begin an official visit to France and Britain tomorrow, Tuesday, February 2, 2016, a statement by…
Help us tackle terrorism, Dambazau tells UK
Lt -Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), Minister of Interior has called for the support of the United Kingdom in tackling terrorism…
Three UK travellers diagnosed with Zika virus
Three travellers who returned to the UK from South and Central America have been diagnosed with the Zika virus, a…
Why I’m fighting for Commonwealth citizens in UK – Prof Alexia Thomas
* “Justice is never given; but it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a…
Nigeria Diaspora security experts applaud improved security infrastructure
Nigeria Diaspora security experts have applauded the improved security infrastructure in Nigeria. This was made known by the Chairman of…
Two Nigerians jailed in UK over £1.6m scam
Two men who conned a woman out of £1.6m (N464m) by using a fictional character to contact her on a…
Diaspora Bill needs to be passed for millions of Nigerians overseas
Nigeria’s population is in the region of 177 million in 2015. This estimated number excludes 10 to 14 million Nigerians…
Nigerian student in UK jailed 9 years for using hot iron on lover during sex
A former student who burned her lover’s genitals with a hot iron while they were having sex has been jailed…
Muslim Comments: 35,000 Britons petition to ban Donald Trump from UK
More than 35,000 Britons have signed an online petition to ban United States Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the…
Nigerian couple jailed for keeping man as slave for 24 years
A doctor and his nurse wife who kept a man in forced servitude for almost a quarter of a century…
Court jails man for UK visa scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday, November 30, 2015 secured the conviction of one Abraham Adasah before Justice…
Why Nigerians were deported from UK
The United Kingdom on Wednesday stated that 50 Nigerians were deported after having committed various offences while in the country.…
Charles Taylor is not dead, says UK Govt
Jailed Liberian war criminal and ex-President Charles Taylor is alive, contrary to rumours circulating on social media, the UK’s Ministry…
A Passion for the Good of Humanity
By RILWAN MOHAMMED Worried by the immigration bottlenecks many Africans face in the United Kingdom, UK, Her Knowledgeable, Professor Alexia…
Ambode seeks UK partnership to boost power supply in rural areas
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday played host to the British Minister of State for Foreign Commonwealth Affairs and…
UK pledges support to Nigeria
UK’s Minister for Africa, Grant Shapps, has pledged his country’s resolve to support Nigeria’s stability and development. A statement issued…
Diezani gets bail in UK, passport seized
Former Nigeria Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been released on bail after she was arrested on allegations of money laundering…
Nigerian gets life sentence in UK for murder
A Nigerian fugitive, Abdul Adewale Kekere-Ekun, was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK for murdering 18-yearold Marcus…
UK pledges support to Nigerian football
The High Commission of the United Kingdom in Nigeria has pledged to support the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, in its…
US, UK, China economies weaken further
The United Stated, United Kingdom and Chinese economies are showing fresh signs of weakening, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
Nigerian poses as Royal Marine, dupes four women of N30m
A Nigerian immigrant Adewale Adewole, 31, posed as a Royal Marine commando Timmy Francis on dating website, Match.com and conned…
Corruption: Dfid helps Nigerians scam UK of £9m
Britain has squandered millions of pounds in aid money to fund a project in Nigeria designed to boost leather exports…
Kashamu arrested, tried in UK – Police
The police, on Thursday, said the British High Commission in Nigeria confirmed that Buruji Kashamu (senator-elect), was arrested and tried…
Cost of violence hits $14trn, more than economies of UK, Germany, Canada combined
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion in 2014, equivalent…
Tony Blair visits Buhari, promises UK support
Former United Kingdom Minister, Tony Blair on a visit to Nigeria’s president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has pledged the support of…
Chuka Umunna to run for UK Labour Party leadership
LONDON (Reuters) – Chuka Umunna, a centre-left politician who specialises in business policy, said on Tuesday he would run for…
Extradite ex-MINT boss, Okoyomon to UK, courts orders
Justice E. S Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on Monday, May 4, 2015 ordered the…
UK to stay in Red until 2020 – IMF
The International Monetary Fund forecast Thursday that Britain’s public deficit would remain in the red until at least 2020, contradicting…