A Nigerian woman, Olabisi Abubakar, 42, from Cardiff, is facing trial in the United Kingdom for two counts of manslaughter and child cruelty relating to the death of her three-year-old son, Taiwo Abubakar. Olabisi, accused of killing her three-year-old son through religious fasting, told police she had “locked herself away” during the COVID-19 pandemic. She
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…Chidoka said UK authorities should allow the daughter get the transplant in furtherance of her fundamental right to life Former Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka has expressed worry over refusal of United Kingdom authorities to allow daughter to former Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia to get a kidney transplant despite a deluge of donors. He
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Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has again appealed to the United Kingdom authorities to grant bail to Sen Ike Ekweremadu. The lawmaker has been in detention for months now after he was charged alongside his wife for alleged organ harvesting. Although the wife, Beatrice was granted bail, the court ruled that the former Deputy
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The United Kingdom has said that all asylum and human rights claims from Nigerian nationals are considered on their individual merits in accordance with its international obligations. The British government states that it has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with its international obligations under the Refugee Convention
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The US, Canada, UK and the EU have all slapped sanctions on Beijing over human rights abuses. It’s the first major global action against China, following years of reports about the systematic persecution of the Uyghur minority. China has hit back with sanctions of its own. China’s Wang Junzheng, the Secretary of the Party Committee
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BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, a week after Beijing threatened to retaliate for the recent revocation of the British broadcasting licence for China’s state-owned CGTN. In a statement published at midnight Beijing time on Friday, China’s National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News’s coverage of China had violated
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Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an application filed by the family of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha to have access to his bank accounts in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Island of Jersey, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration had in 1999 moved to freeze all the accounts traced to the
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The United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) have reached a deal on their post-Brexit trade relations. Reports in the UK said Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm the deal at a press conference later. Johnson was quoted as saying by the media that “the deal is “done.” He said: “All of our
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The federal government has demanded an apology from the British government over the “unsubstantiated” claim by a member of its parliament that Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s former head of state, looted public treasury. Ferdinand Nwonye, spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs, in a statement on Friday, said Nigeria has also demanded that the statement be
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The United Kingdom on Monday maintained that the shooting of peaceful and unarmed EndSARS protesters at Lekki, Lagos State and other incidents during the protest must be investigated. In a Tweet on its Twitter handle, @UKinNigeria, the UK High Commission in Nigeria said that judicial panels of inquiry must probe all incidents, including Lekki and
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Four men are due to go on trial in Britain on Monday in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a lorry in southeast England . The grim discovery of 31 men and eight women inside the container truck on an industrial estate east of London last year threw
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British police said on Thursday they had arrested a man on suspicion of war crimes relating to conflicts in Liberia between 1989 and 2003. Police said detectives had detained the unnamed 45-year-old man in southeast London over alleged offences contrary to the International Criminal Court Act, and he was now in custody. From 1989 to
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Abdulrahman Bashir, the Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited, has denied reports of being jailed in the United Kingdom. Premiumtimes had on Wednesday, August 19, reported that Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court had handed a 10-year sentence on the Nigerian oil mogul after he was found guilty of breaching
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British government debt has exceeded £ 2. 0 trillion for the first time following large state borrowing as the coronavirus pandemic pushed the UK economy deep into recession , official data showed Friday .At the end of July , total accumulated debt hit £2 .004 trillion ( $ 2. 61 trillion, 2 .2 trillion euros
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A court in the United Kingdom has sentenced Chairman of Ontario Oil & Gas Limited, Mr Walter Wagbatsona, to three and half years in prison. The Nigerian oil magnate was convicted by a Leicester Crown Court after he was found guilty of conspiracy to launder money in an international fraud and money laundering. Mr Wagbatsona
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