The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 Nigeria election, Peter Obi, has congratulated the United Kingdom Labour Party and their leader Keir Starmer for recording a historic victory in Thursday’s election in that country. Reacting to the victory in his X handle on Friday, the LP standard-bearer said he hoped that the incoming Prime Minister would follow his campaign ...

•We will work with Nigeria to reduce barriers to trade – Badenoch Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, implored foreign investors, particularly the business community in the United Kingdom to consider Lagos as a destination of choice for their investments. He said his administration will continue to make Lagos a destination of choice by ensuring a friendly business ...

King Charles has officially been crowned at his historic Coronation ceremony alongside his wife Queen Camilla. At midday the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed St Edward’s Crown upon Charles’ anointed head during the historical service at Westminster Abbey. The King prayed to be a “blessing” to people of “every faith and conviction”. He became the 40th reigning sovereign to be crowned ...

The United Kingdom (UK), yesterday, said it had placed no fewer than 10 Nigerians on its visa ban watchlist for alleged ethnic profiling and undermining democracy during the just concluded general elections. British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, who spoke in an interview with Nigeria Info FM, yesterday, deplored the attacks and anti-Igbo messages deployed by some politicians especially in Lagos ...

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Her family gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlier on Thursday. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. With her death, her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales, will ...

Clicksbox / Shutterstock Nicholas Allen, Royal Holloway University of London The United Kingdom’s next prime minister will be Liz Truss. After a two-month contest, Conservative Party members have chosen her as their new leader. All that remains is for Truss to travel to Balmoral in Scotland where she will be formally invited by the Queen to form a government. Truss ...

Activist Deji Adeyanju of Concerned Nigerians has said that medical tourists to the United Kingdom including President Muhammadu Buhari will be most affected by the travel restrictions slammed on Nigeria by Britain. He stated this in a chat with The PUNCH, adding that the travel restriction by the Boris Johnson administration, as well as other nations, was baseless as there was ...

The leadership of Ijaw nation has solicited the support of the British government to break away from Nigeria. A delegation led by the President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Prof. Benjamin Okaba, made this known during a meeting with representatives of the British High Commission led by Mr John Kekeh, at the Ijaw House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. In a ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has reiterated his administration’s commitment to quality education and promotion of equal opportunities for the girl child.    Speaking after a close-door meeting with the United Kingdom (UK) Minister for Africa, Mr. James Duddridge; Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Nigeria and Special Envoy for Girls Education, Helen Grant and British Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. ...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, says he is taking “a short rest” in London, United Kingdom. In a statement on Thursday, Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the President disclosed this in a letter he wrote to the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, King Abdullah ll Bin Al-Hussein, following the resolution of a recent ...