Posts tagged as: United Kingdom

UK Stops Recruiting Doctors, Nurses, Other Health Workers From Nigeria, 53 Others

LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria and 53 other countries on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. The announcement was contained in the revised code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England. […]

Uncertainty Surrounds Tinubu’s Return Date To Nigeria From Foreign Trips

LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Close allies of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are unsure of when he will return to Nigeria from his foreign trips. POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that Tinubu on March 22 travelled abroad “to rest” and plan his transition programme ahead of the May 29 inauguration. His associates said the former Lagos State governor […]

Int’l Assessors Commend Quality Of Caleb University Postgraduate Programmes

  LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A team of International scholars assembled in the meeting Room A-4 in the just completed ultra modern aerospace engineering building at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, on February 13 2023 and joined virtually in the assessment of  Post field presentations.  Caleb University as an institution with international academic standard, ensured […]

UK To Remove Tariffs On Over 3,000 Exports From Nigeria

LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The UK government will eliminate tariffs on more than 3,000 products it imports from Nigeria in a bid to boost trade with Africa’s largest economy. Nigerian exporters of cocoa, cotton, plantain, flowers, fertilizers, tomatoes, frozen shrimp and sesame seed are among those that will benefit from the new tariff regime outlined in […]

Abia PDP Governorship Candidate Passes On

LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Prof Uchenna Ikonne is dead. His death was announced in a statement on Wednesday by his son, Dr Uche-Ikonne Chikezie. According to the younger Ikonne, the PDP governorship candidate died around 4am today, January 25, 2023 after a brief illness. […]

UK Prime Minister Fined  £100 For Not Wearing Seatbelt

LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-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 […]

INEC Boss Yakubu, Kwankwaso, Peter Obi To Speak At Chatham House Next Week

LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the presidential candidates of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP and the Labour Party, LP, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Peter Obi, respectively are expected to speak at the Chatham House research event billed for next week. The Royal Institute of International Affairs, in […]

Dokpesi: UK Police Deepens Probe On 71-Year-Old  Man Over Rape Allegation

LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The London Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom, has said it is probing a 71-year-old man who was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Sunday on suspicion of rape This is as controversy surrounded the arrest of the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who was delayed by the Met Police at Heathrow […]

UK Opens Door For Employment For Nigerian Teachers Next Year

LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has been listed among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teacher status through the Teaching Regulation Agency in the United Kingdom, from February 2023. Other countries to benefit include Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. A publication early December on the UK Government’s […]

US, UK Warn Of Possible Terrorist Attack In Nigeria’s Capital, Abuja

LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States and Britain on Sunday warned of a possible terrorist attack in Nigeria’s federal capital Abuja, especially aimed at government buildings, places of worship and schools, among other targets. Nigeria is fighting an Islamist insurgency mainly in the northeast, but in July the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a raid […]

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