The new Labour government in the United Kingdom has announced it will resume funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). “We are overturning the suspension of UNRWA funding,” British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told Parliament on Friday, adding…
UK govt makes U-turn on graduate visas: Good news for Nigerians and others
Plans for a radical crackdown on graduate visas that allow overseas students to work in the UK for up to two years after graduation look set to be abandoned by the prime minister after coming up against staunch opposition from…
Zelensky meets British foreign secretary on military aid to Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron to discuss military aid to Ukraine, the presidential press service said on Friday. At the meeting, which took place in Kiev earlier on Thursday, Zelensky thanked the British…
*Motorists sleep at filling stations as petrol scarcity bites harder (Sun)*We’re using technology to fight corruption — Tinubu (Tribune)
Motorists sleep at filling stations as petrol scarcity bites harder (Sun) Motorists in Lagos are currently contending with acute shortage of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly called petrol over what industry observers described as massive drop in import level. Their…
Joe Biden threatens Russia with costs on anniversary of Evan Gershkovich arrest
President Joe Biden says the US will impose costs for Russia’s “appalling attempts” to use Americans as bargaining chips in a statement to mark the one-year anniversary of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Russia. Mr Gershkovich, 32,…
Braverman out, ex-PM David Cameron back in, as Rishi Sunak shuffles his cabinet
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made some sweeping changes to his cabinet in an autumn reshuffle prompted by a scandal-hit home secretary. Suella Braverman has been sacked after being accused of inflaming tensions with her comments about a pro-Palestinian…
*Pregnant mother slumps as fire kills 2-year-old son in Lagos (NewTelegraph)*How Lagos is dying (Vanguard)
Pregnant mother slumps as fire kills 2-year-old son in Lagos (NewTelegraph) Tragedy struck at the Ikotun area of Lagos on Friday night when fire razed a building leaving a two-year-old boy dead and others injured. The tragic incident, which occurred…
David Cameron shot a stag and called it Boris (Metro)
David Cameron has taken up stag hunting again, and named one of his kills Boris. The former prime minister didn’t go out stalking stags while in office, out of fear it would play badly politically. Now he has more time…
David Cameron: Boris Johnson backed Leave to ‘help career’ (BBC)
Boris Johnson did not believe in Brexit during the referendum campaign and backed Leave “because it would help his political career”, says David Cameron. In an extract from his memoir published in the Sunday Times, the former PM also refers…