Survivors of a deadly 2021 typhoon in the Philippines have filed a UK lawsuit against British oil giant Shell, seeking financial compensation for climate-related devastation, three NGOs supporting claimants announced today. Typhoon Rai struck the southern and central regions of the Philippines in mid-December 2021, toppling power lines and tre...
•Convicted IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Several Igbo Diaspora organisations have criticised the United Kingdom government over what they described as “silence and complicity” in the recent life imprisonment of British citizen Nnamdi Kanu by Nigeria’s Federal High Court. The joint statement, issued by the American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID), A...
•Keir Starmer Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer will today announce a fresh bid to reform the country’s social security system after rebel MPs in his own party blocked reforms proposed last summer. His speech, extracts of which have been released by his office, comes after last week’s budget proposed higher taxes to fund measures to [&hell...
•Ike Ekweremadu behind the bar in UK The UK government has rejected a request to transfer Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President, to Nigeria to complete his jail sentence for organ trafficking. Ekweremadu is serving a sentence of nine years and eight months after being found guilty of conspiring to exploit a man for his […]
•Late Hammed Another Nigerian Master’s degree graduate in Business and Management from the University of Plymouth, identified simply as Hammed, has died in the United Kingdom after his health “deteriorated suddenly from advanced cancer.” Our correspondent learnt of his passing through a GoFundMe appeal created by Mariam Ajibola and Mohammed Ch...
•Late Senator Okey Ezea The Senate was thrown into mourning today following the death of Senator Okey Ezea, who represented Enugu North Senatorial District and reportedly passed away in the United Kingdom while receiving medical treatment. Ezea, a frontline senator elected on the Labour Party platform, was the only LP member from Enugu State i...
•UK flag The UK government today threatened visa bans on three African countries unless they accept the returns of irregular migrants, as the interior minister was set to announce sweeping changes to the asylum system. Britain said it would stop granting visas to nationals from Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo unless the [&...
•AI, Headphone and music icon on a mobile phone display Britain’s music industry contributed £8 billion ($10.5 billion) to the UK economy in 2024, but the effects of Brexit and AI have clouded the sector’s outlook, an industry report showed yesterday. UK tours by Taylor Swift and Take That helped lift the industry’s contribution to […]...
•Chiemka Okoronta A Nigerian student, Chiemka Okoronta, who was labelled a “dangerous sexual predator” has been jailed for ten years in the United Kingdom (UK). Okoronta was convicted of raping a stranded teenage bus passenger in West Yorkshire, UK. The 29-year-old postgraduate student was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court for the attack on Ma...
•UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Counter-terrorism police are involved in an investigation into a mass stabbing on a train in eastern England which left nine people suffering with life-threatening injuries. A man with a large knife is believed to have been shot with a Taser by police after going on a bloody rampage on a […]
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