LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected calls on Monday for Britain to ease visa demands on Ukrainian refugees fleeing conflict, saying Britain was a generous country but it needed to maintain checks on who was arriving. The United Nations estimates that more than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia started bombarding…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Representatives of Delta State Government were conspicuously absent in Federal High Court, Abuja when the suit involving Federal Government return of £4.2m Ibori loot paid to the Federal Government by the United Kingdom government came up for hearing. The case came up for hearing on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 at the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom has recorded its death related to the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, disclosed this on Monday while on a visit to a vaccination clinic in west London, the BBC reports. Johnson is said to have advised British residents to put aside the idea…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom is set to reduce travel restrictions and scrap the infamous red list which came back into use after the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. A UK newspaper, Daily Mail, reports that the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, had been able to convince his colleagues that the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom and Denmark will be labeled red and placed under a travel ban starting overnight Wednesday, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday. It also revealed that 15 more Omicron cases were identified in the country, bringing the total to 67. Israelis cannot travel to red countries unless they obtain special…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former goalkeeper of the Nigerian women’s national football team, Rachael Aladi Ayegba, has turned into a bus driver in the United Kingdom. Ayegba played in the 2007 Women’s World Cup, the 2006 and 2008 African Women’s Championships and had an 11-year stint as a pro in Finland, winning the league title…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian official on Monday criticized a travel ban imposed on the West African nation by the British government amid fears about the new omicron coronavirus variant as “punitive, indefensible and discriminatory.” U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Saturday added Nigeria to the U.K.’s travel “red list,” which means that arrivals from…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Kingdom government has warned its citizens in Nigeria against visiting Delta State and eleven other states in Nigeria over possible terror attacks. The advisory from the UK through its Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) followed concerns on the possibility of terrorists carrying out attacks in Nigeria. In a statement published…