Rishi Sunak has emerged the new Leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, and is therefore, the new Prime Minister. As stated in an announcement made by Sir Graham Brady, only one nomination was received by the 1922 Committee for the new leader of the party and backed by 100 MPs. Sir Brady, therefore, declared […]
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With effect from Tuesday, December 14, the federal government will restrict airlines coming from Canada, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the decision on Sunday in Lagos and explained that it was to reciprocate restricted flights from Nigeria into those countries over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. […]
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The United Kingdom (UK) has released a new update on the processing of visa applications for countries on its red list. Recall that on Sunday, the British High Commission announced that it will “pause making decisions” on visitor visa applications from all red list countries, including Nigeria. The development came after the UK put Nigeria on its travel red […]
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The Police in Nigeria has confirmed the threat to attack the Federal Capital Territory and six other states in the country. The United States and United Kingdom missions in Nigeria had warned of possible attacks in the FCT, Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, and Yobe on soft targets by Boko Haram insurgents. Following the warning, […]
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The governments of the United Kingdom and the United States have warned their citizens of threat to carry out bomb attacks in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, during the Yuletide. The government of the United Kingdom listed worship places, malls and markets amongst other places that should be avoided. The advisory read: “The risk of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokespersons on Saturday night described social media reports about the president’s health conditions and possible death, as “evil rumours”. In their separate posts, published on their Twitter handles, Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity to the president and Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant on media and publicity to […]
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As part of his annual vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari left Abuja on Thursday for the United Kingdom on a 10-day leave. Buhari with military chiefs as he departs for UK on Thursday. Buhari with some of his aides leaving Villa for his journey to UK Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and […]
Continue Reading(NAN) The United Kingdom has launched super priority visa service in Nigeria to allow customers to process their applications within 24 hours. In a statement posted on its website, the British high commission said the new service was brought up to particularly meet the needs of those requiring urgent traveling service. The statement said Paul […]
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