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Reprieve for Nigerian nurses, midwives abroad as Nursing Council reopens portal for credential verification

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) has reopened its website verification portal for nurses and midwives to submit verification requests, bringing...

Just in: Pres. Tinubu meets King Charles III at Buckingham Palace

President Bola Tinubu visited King Charles III at Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom on Wednesday. The aim of the visit is to...

FG cautions Nigerians in UK against movements amid ongoing violence

The Federal Government has warned Nigerian citizens in the UK to exercise caution due to the increased violence and unrest sparked by recent...

Nigerian-British minister faces suspension over comment on Israeli offensives in Gaza

A British-Nigerian minister, MP Kate Osamor, has been suspended by the United Kingdom’s Labour Party after she accused Israel of genocide on the...

King Charles discharged from hospital after three-night stay

Britain’s King Charles III has been discharged from a hospital in London after undergoing treatment for an enlarged prostate. Buckingham Palace disclosed in...

Visa: UK introduces stringent five-point plan to reduce migration

The United Kingdom Home Secretary, Mr James Cleverly, has proposed a five-point plan to reduce migration into the United Kingdom from other countries....

Pres. Tinubu receives in audience the UK Sec. of State for Foreign/Commonwealth Affairs, Mr James Cleverly and other UK Delegates at the Presidential Villa

Briefing State House correspondents shortly after an audience with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa, Cleverly said, “We touched briefly on...

Former UK Envoy To Nigeria Appointed UN Special Representative for Somalia

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Catriona Laing as his new Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations...

UK set to announce new policy to curtail influx of migrants

The United Kingdom is set to announce stiffer sanctions for foreign students to curb the surge of students taking advantage of loopholes in...

British septuagenarian monarch, King Charles III crowned amid pomp and ceremony

Britain’s oldest monarch, King Charles III was on Saturday, May 6, crowned in a magnificent and deeply religious ceremony at Westminster Abbey. The...

Brain drain: Can 5-year compulsory service bill curb Nigerian medical doctors’emigration to other countries?

What the proposed legislation may achieve if passed into law would be to increase the pool of unemployed and disenchanted Nigerians rather than...

Electoral crimes: UK visa ban threats all noise, ineffective- Prof. Akinyemi

A former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, has said the United Kingdom’s threat to impose visa ban and other sanctions against...

I’m on a mission, Cuppy says as she bags second Master’s degree, third degree

Nigerian Disc jockey, Ifeoluwa Otedola, popularly known as DJ Cuppy, has bagged a second Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, England, in...

BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest son, 73-year-old Prince Charles named UK King

Following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the eldest of her four children, Charles, Prince of Wales, who at 73 is the oldest...

Nnamdi Kanu was not arrested, extradited by UK — British High Commission

Amid controversial accounts of where the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested and extradited, the United Kingdom says it...