LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United Kingdom has warned its national to stay clear of some states in Nigeria. Besides, UK has temporarily withdrawn a small number of its staff and dependents at its Mission in both Abuja and Lagos. The UK Foreign Office attributed the insecurity situation in the country for the action. The travel advisory…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Students on scholarship of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) protested on Monday in the United Kingdom the non-payment of their tuition fees. Carrying placards, the students converged on the Nigerian High Commission in London to express displeasure over “negligence of their welfare”. They said they had resorted to begging for food…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump has announced he is postponing the G7 until at least September and wants to invite four additional countries to the summit: Russia, Australia, India and South Korea. “I’m postponing it because I don’t feel as a G7 it probably represents what’s going on in the world. It’s a very…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A UK court has ruled that Nigeria’s $1 billion suit against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, oil giants, cannot go on because it does not have jurisdiction over the case. Justice Christopher Butcher gave the ruling at a virtual hearing on Friday, setting back the long standing trial on the Malabu oil…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ofcom, a regulatory authority for broadcasting in the United Kingdom, has imposed a sanction on Loveworld Limited for airing potentially harmful claims about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Loveworld is a religious television channel owned by Nigerian pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, who has himself championed outrageous claims about the coronavirus outbreak. Ofcom announced in…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely a week after helping to repatriate $311m (N118bn) stolen by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, the United States says there is a separate $319m (N121bn) Abacha loot in the United Kingdom and France. The US Embassy in Nigeria said in a statement on Wednesday that there is $167m…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The UK has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the British government published new figures Wednesday that include deaths outside of hospitals. After factoring in deaths in all settings such as care homes, the number of people in Britain who have died after testing positive for the virus has…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former director-general of the Nigeria Law School Dr Kole Abayomi has died in the United Kingdom (UK) after contracting coronavirus. Abayomi died on Thursday, April 3, a statement by the secretary of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN), Seyi Sowemimo, SAN, disclosed. “The BOSAN Secretariat wishes to announce the death…