The United Kingdom has exempted Nigeria from its list of high-risk countries for money laundering. The list, comprising 21 countries, was released as part of post-Brexit developments. Until the end of the Brexit transition period, the...
In a new report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has ranked UK and Canada as the worst countries on cybercrimes. Nigeria was ranked 16th. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of...
The British Government has agreed to return £4.2 million, part of funds so far recovered from friends and family members of former Delta Governor, James Ibori, to the Nigerian government. British High Commission to Nigeria, Ms....
Medical personnel fighting the coronavirus pandemic worldwide are facing the problem of having to deal with many strains of the virus. A new one has been discovered in 13 countries. Researchers from the University of Edinburg...
The UK Supreme Court said Friday that a group of about 50,000 Nigerian farmers and fishermen could bring a case in London’s High Court against Royal Dutch Shell over years of oil spills in the...
A fresh move by the family of the late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, to unfreeze foreign accounts traced to him and relatives crashed on Friday as the Supreme Court declined the request. Younger...
For the tenth consecutive day Nigeria’s daily count of infections exceeded 1000 on Wednesday with 1,398 new cases; with 81 recoveries and nine deaths. A total of 103,999 cases have now been confirmed across the country,...
The United Kingdom has extended the ban on travellers entering England to 11 African countries to prevent the spread of a new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa. In a statement titled, ‘Travel restrictions update: South...
The United Kingdom started a new era after it completed its formal separation from the European Union. The UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT on Friday, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and...
Pascal Soriot, head of drug-maker AstraZeneca, which is developing a coronavirus vaccine widely expected to be approved by United Kingdom (UK) authorities this week, has said that researchers believe the shot will be effective against...