The Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari currently receiving a treatment in the United Kingdom have said only the Doctors attending to him in the UK have the last say on when he can return to Nigeria, according to an update on his vacation yesterday. The doctors, Buhari said in his February 5 letter to the Senate […]
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Queen Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning living monarch, celebrates her Sapphire Jubilee on Monday, commemorating 65 years since she took the British throne. A 41-gun royal salute will take place in central London to mark the occasion. The queen’s office released a 2014 portrait showing her wearing a suite of sapphire jewellery she received from King […]
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The Nigeria President has extended his stay in the UK after Doctor advised. It is “open-ended” because his return can be anytime, Source said last night. According to the Source, “the President can return home any time. It can be in a few days; it can be later but he does not want any leadership vacuum, “the […]
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Former Petroleum Minister Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and mother Beatrice Agama have been told by a London court that they may still have a case to answer regarding the £27,000 money laundering and bribery allegation made against her by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The ex-minister, who was first arraigned at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court […]
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The Britain has fined Vodafone a sum 4.6 million pounds ($5.60 million) for “serious and sustained” customer failures, including not updating accounts when mobile phone users topped up their credit to make calls. Vodafone, the world’s second-largest mobile operator, also failed to act quickly enough to identify or address the problems, the regulator said, which […]
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SEVERAL years after he allegedly jumped bail in the United Kingdom, former Plateau State governor, Joshua Chibi Dariye, is still wanted in that country in relation to a money laundering case for which he was arrested and detained briefly by the London Metropolitan Police in 2004. A detective with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
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There are 500 Nigerians in various prisons across the United Kingdom, the British High Commission in Nigeria has said. British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, told SUNDAY PUNCH. Arkwright said, “As of September 2015, there were approximately 500 Nigerians across UK prisons, and transfers are made following consent by both countries. There are something […]
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