Foreign

Nigeria's representative on the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace (GCTP) Parliament in Geneva Switzerland, Hon. Adedeji Stanley Dhikrullahi Olajide, has appealed to world leaders on an urgent need for immediate ceasefire, over the…
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The British government on Wednesday said it was toughening immigration rules to make it almost impossible for undocumented migrants who arrive on small boats to later receive citizenship. Under new guidance migrants arriving by sea, or…
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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States in a blow to the president’s bid to end a right enshrined in the Constitution for more than a century. The ruling…
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Tuberculosis cases in England surged by 13 per cent in 2024, marking a continued rise in recent years, according to new data published on Thursday by the UK Health Security Agency. PUNCH Online reports that the UKHSA shared this on the…
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The military-led governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have officially withdrawn from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), marking the culmination of a year-long standoff with the regional bloc. ECOWAS confirmed…
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Nigerians in diaspora have condemned the move by President Donald Trump to cancel citizens by birth as guaranteed in the American constitution, saying an executive order alone was not enough to amend a constitutional provision. They…
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US President Donald Trump granted pardons to more than 1,500 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump, just hours after taking office, also ordered that…
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United States President Joe Biden on Sunday declared January 9 a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, a former American president. President Biden also called on Americans to visit their places of worship to “pay homage” to the…
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The United States Embassy in Nigeria has announced updates to its immigration visa process, effective January 1, 2025. Applicants with scheduled interviews will now need to visit the Consulate General in Lagos twice as part of the…
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A United Kingdom upper tribunal has reversed a previous ruling that stopped the deportation of 43-year-old Nigerian Olutobi Ogunbawo convicted of immigration offences. The decision comes after his wife, Maria Adesanya, claimed that in…
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