LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho, has submitted a petition to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, to consider the creation of a Yoruba nation. Igboho was said to have submitted the petition on behalf of Prof. Adebanji Akintoye, the leader of the Yoruba Nation movement. The movement is…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 universities in the United Kingdom have publicly announced staff layoffs and course closures, prompted by a significant decline in overseas postgraduate student enrollments this past January, according to University World News. In the United Kingdom, at least 15 universities have publicly announced staff layoffs and course closures, which was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Director of Corporate Banking at First Bank of Nigeria, Adetunji Fadahunsi-Jones, has been arraigned for an alleged bribery offence in the United Kingdom. Adetunji’s arraignment came after a National Crime Agency investigation. Adetunji, 45, of Hertfordshire, oversaw the bank’s contact with a significant businessman in Nigeria’s oil, gas and petroleum…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Economic hardship has forced thousands of Nigerians to migrate in recent years, leading to a brain drain in key sectors. Local media reported that some 143,000 Nigerian doctors and “others” moved to the UK in the year leading up to September 2023. But the claim is misleading: official statistics reveal only 26,715…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has commended the United Kingdom for their respect for the rule of law and congratulated Nigeria’s legal team that handled the case against Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd. In a statement issued by his media aid, Michael Nwolisa, on Wednesday, Obi,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources during the first tenure of former President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibe Kachikwu, has been mentioned in the criminal charges levelled against Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Herald reports that Alison-Madueke, who was Nigeria’s minister of petroleum resources between 2010 and 2015, is charged with receiving bribes in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new travel requirement has been issued to Nigerians wishing to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) effective November 15, 2023. Except for British and Irish citizens, everyone including children who enter or transit through the UK will require permission before they travel. This means that all visa applicants wishing to travel…