Tag: United Kingdom

13-yr-old boy sues UK parents for ‘deportation’ to Africa 

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13 yr old boy sues

A 13-year-old boy has taken legal action against his parents, accusing them of “brutally” taking him to Africa and enrolling him in a boarding school before abandoning him there. The boy, whose identity is protected, contacted the British Consulate and a child welfare organization after his parents registered him at an African school before returning to the United Kingdom. His legal team argued that his parents “physically and emotionally abandoned” him due to concerns over his potential involvement in gangs in London, an accusation the teenager denies vehemently. According to…

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UK introduces electronic travel authorisation for non-European visitors

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UK introduces

The United Kingdom government has introduced the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system for non-European visitors to the country. An ETA is a digital travel permit required for visitors to enter a country. It is linked to a traveller’s passport and grants permission to travel without needing a physical visa. Starting yesterday, Thursday, November 28, all eligible non-European visitors can apply for an ETA, which will be required for travel to the UK from January 8, 2025. According to a press release by the UK’s Home Office on its official website…

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ICC Ruling: Israeli PM, Netanyahu faces arrest, as UK pledges to fulfill its “legal obligations”

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Netanyahu faces arrest

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu risks arrest in the United Kingdom (UK) after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him on Thursday for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Downing Street has indicated that the UK would fulfil its “legal obligations” under international law if Netanyahu were to travel to the country. The warrant, which also names Israel’s former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, stems from accusations of war crimes during the ongoing Gaza conflict. According to the ICC Act 2001, member States, including the UK, are obligated…

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“Kemi Badenoch a vile, cunning, dangerous and willing tool of colonialists”– Fani-Kayode 

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Fani Kayode on Badenoch

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described the newly-elected leader of the British Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch as a dangerous and willing tool of colonialists. In a lengthy post on his X handle on Sunday, infuriated Fani-Kayode said she had the impudence to describe Nigeria, her country of origin, as a “living hell”. The ex-Minister said Kemi deserves to be tarred and feathered for the sort of things she says about Nigeria. He alleged that the British opposition leader might be suffering from a disease known as “Stockholm syndrome”.…

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Tinubu proceeds on 2-week annual leave in UK

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Tinunu on leave

…To return after leave expires President Bola Tinubu departed  Abuja yesterday for the United Kingdom (UK) to begin two-week vacation as part of his yearly leave. In a statement issued yesterday, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, said the President will utilize a two-week break for work and introspection on economic policies. Onanuga added that Tinubu will return to the country at the end of the vacation. The statement reads.“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja today for the United Kingdom to begin a two-week…

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President Tinubu meets King Charles III in London

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Tinubu meets King Charles

…To explore new strategies for climate financing In a significant diplomatic engagement, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu met with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. The meeting, which marked their first direct encounter since the COP 28 Climate Summit in Dubai last year, underscored the strong and enduring relationship between Nigeria and the United Kingdom. According to President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the meeting was initiated at King Charles III’s request. “The two leaders focused on global and regional issues, particularly the pressing challenge…

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Journalist rejects N800,000 bribe offer from foreign NGO to smear Ɗangote Refinery

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Journalist exposes

Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has accused an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), ‘Dialogue Earth’, of offering him an 800 thousand naira bribe to smear the world’s largest single-train refinery, Ɗangote Refinery. In a lengthy post on his X account yesterday, Hundeyin detailed how the NGO reached out to him sometime last week, with a brief that required him to write a negative review about the Ɗangote Refinery using climate change and environmental concerns as justifications. According to him the NGO, formerly known as China Dialogue Trust, is based in London,…

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UK charges’s Glencore’s billionaire ex-Head of Oil over bribing NNPCL, FG officials

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A billionaire former head of oil at Glencore Plc, Alex Beard, has been charged with corruption by the UK’s top fraud agency, alongside four other ex-employees from the commodities trader. Beard, 56, who was one of Glencore’s top executives for more than a decade before his departure in 2019, is the highest profile individual to be charged in a sweeping series of investigations into corruption and market manipulation at the company – and one of the most senior commodity traders ever to be charged with wrongdoing. The UK’s Serious Fraud…

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New UK Foreign Secretary Lammy backs ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza

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UK Foreign Secretary

Britain’s newly appointed Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has reiterated his support for international efforts to secure an “immediate ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas war and for the release of remaining hostages. “The job now is to get to work with tireless diplomacy to support an immediate ceasefire and move towards getting those hostages out,” Lammy told UK broadcasters, in his first comments after becoming the country’s top diplomat hours earlier.

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Treaty violation: Court gives Chinese firm go-ahead to seize Nigeria’s UK properties

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A commercial court in London, United Kingdom (UK), has granted Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd., final charging orders over two residential properties owned by Nigeria in the UK. A master at the court, Lisa Sullivan, granted the final charging orders to the Chinese firm following Nigeria’s prior opposition to the orders’ jurisdiction. The Chinese firm seeks to enforce a $70 million investment treaty award against Nigeria. In 2010, Zhongshan, through Zhuhai Zhongfu Industrial Group Co. Ltd (Zhuhai), its Chinese parent company, acquired rights to develop a free trade zone…

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