The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended 58-year-old fugitive drug lord Uzoma Valentine Ilomuanya, who had been on the wanted list in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom for over 15 years. The arrest marks a major blow to international drug trafficking networks, reports Vanguard. The agency said Ilomuanya was arrested i...
•UK visa The United Kingdom government has activated an “emergency brake” on study visas for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan following a sharp rise in asylum applications from individuals who initially entered the country through legal visa routes. The decision, announced by the UK Home Office, will end sponsored study vi...
•Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer The UK government cut its 2026 growth forecast today, as Britain’s finance minister delivered a fiscal update overshadowed by concerns over the economic fallout from the Iran war. The Spring Statement spending update came as the Labour government struggles to boost sluggish economic growth, now threatened...
Britain awoke on March 1 to the largest sudden disruption of its citizens’ freedom of movement since the Covid-19 border closures. Overnight, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Syria and the United Arab Emirates shut their skies after U.S.-Israeli strikes inside Iran triggered retaliatory missile attacks. With Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doh...
•Mandelson London Police released former ambassador Peter Mandelson on bail in the early hours of today, in a probe into his ties to disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein, only days after ex-prince Andrew was arrested. Mandelson, a pivotal figure in British politics and the UK’s former envoy to Washington, was arrested on suspicion of miscond...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in collaboration with the British High Commission in Abuja, has alerted Nigerians about the rising threat of global job recruitment schemes funneling victims into cyber‑enabled scam operations across Southeast Asia. At a landmark survivor‑centred event held on Monday i...
•Inimfon Dance artiste, Inimfon Iniama, is steadily carving out a dynamic presence across performance spaces in the United Kingdom, blending African movement traditions with contemporary styles while expanding her creative and cultural impact. A graduate of Theatre and Media Studies from the University of Calabar, Iniama began her professional...
•Late Oluranti Akinyemi A Nigerian woman, Oluranti Akinyemi, has died in the United Kingdom shortly after reportedly arriving in the country for her son’s graduation ceremony. It was learnt that a fundraising campaign was launched on JustGiving to raise £20,000 to repatriate her remains to Nigeria and cover related expenses. As of yesterday, £...
•Nigeria passport and ticket The United Kingdom has announced that all new UK Visit visas for Nigerian travellers will be issued digitally from February 25, 2026, marking a major step in modernising its visa process. In a statement signed yesterday by the Senior Press and Public Affairs Officer at the British High Commission in Abuja, [&hellip...
•AI generated image used for illustration only A Nigerian prison officer based in the United Kingdom has shared his personal decision to stop paying monthly tithes to his home church after relocating abroad. In a candid post that has gone viral, the officer—who identifies on X as @Prestigious_Gt explained that while he faithfully paid tithes [...
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