Foreign

Presidential Aide in Court over Alleged £225,000 Bribe

Web News 14 August 2023 283 0

The Madagascan president’s chief-of-staff has been charged in the UK with seeking a bribe from a gem mining firm. Romy Andrianarisoa and an associate are accused of offering the British firm Gemfields licences in Madagascar in return for around £225,000. She and her associate, Philippe Continue Reading

Crime Judiciary

Ekweremadu, Wife Bag Jail Term in UK

Web News 5 May 2023 1053 0

The United Kingdom court has sentenced former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot. The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four years six months while the medical doctor who acted as a ‘middleman’ in the plot, Dr Obinna Obeta, was […]Continue Reading

Foreign

Man Jailed 20 Years for Murdering Wife

Web News 7 April 2023 345 0

A man has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for killing his pregnant wife by pushing her 50ft off a cliff edge at an Edinburgh beauty spot. 29-year-old Kashif Anwar, killed 31-year-old Fawziyah Javed when she plunged from a rocky outcrop on Arthur’s Seat during a holiday in September 2021. And as she […]Continue Reading

Politics

Ariwoola, Tinubu Never Met in UK, President-Elect is in France – Ahmed Raji

Web News 24 March 2023 331 0

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Barrister Ahmed Raji has debunked a rumour that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Kayode Ariwoola was sighted in the United Kingdom in a wheelchair, purportedly in a meeting with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement in Ibadan, Mr Raji explained that Justice Ariwoola went […]Continue Reading

Foreign

Police Slap UK PM with Fine for Seatbelt Violation

Web News 21 January 2023 579 0

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video. Lancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. No 10 said Mr Sunak “fully accepts this was a mistake and has apologised”, […]Continue Reading

Foreign

Organ Harvesting: Ex-Deputy Senate President, Wife, Arrested in London

Web News 24 June 2022 599 0

A former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and his wife have been charged with conspiring to transport a boy to the UK in order to harvest organs. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu, 55, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in west London on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police of the United Kingdom […]Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Covid-19: Nigerian High Commission In London Shuts Down

Web News 13 August 2021 442 0

The Nigeria High Commission In London will shut down for the next 10 days as part of precautionary protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is contained in a statement issued by the commission after two officers tested positive for COVID-19. The affected officers have gone on immediate isolation while those who tested negative […]Continue Reading

Transportation

UK’s Prosperity Fund Pledges Technical Support to Ogun Govt on Transport System

Web News 22 April 2021 496 0

United Kingdom’s Prosperity Fund has pledged to offer technical assistant to Ogun State Government in its efforts to put in place an efficient and sustainable transportation system. Speaking at the presentation of the report of the Committee on Transportation at Governor’s office Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Head, Prosperity Fund Nigeria, Mrs  Martha Bostock, Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Covid-19: Family Announces Death of 1st Victim in Nigeria

Web News 23 March 2020 637 0

Our family is deeply saddened to inform you of the sudden death of our beloved Father, Uncle, Brother, and friend, Engineer Suleiman Achimugu. The former Managing Director of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company of Nigeria, PPMC) died of COVID-19 on 22/03/2020 some days after he arrived in Nigeria from the United Kingdom. He was in self-isolation upon […]Continue Reading

Health

No “Confirmed” Case of Coronavirus in Oyo State – Commissioner

Web News 19 March 2020 639 0

Oyo state government says there is no confirmed case of outbreak of coronavirus in the state contrary to speculation making round. Addressing journalists in Ibadan, Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello stated this while addressing journalists in Ibadan. Dr Bello explained that an individual who just returned from the UK was self-isolation pointing out that the […]Continue Reading