Nigerians on social media are currently reacting to this photo of UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and members of his cabinet posing in front of a pothole. Sunak shared the photo on his X handle and stated that this would be the last time that UK residents would see such potholes. He announced that his government has set aside €8bn to fix potholes. Nigerians on social media have expressed surprise about the kind of potholes the …
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A 23-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker has made an attempt on his own life in an Essex hotel car park after hearing he was due to be transferred on to the Bibby Stockhom barge, the UK Guardian reported on Sunday, October 29, 2023. Bibby Stockhom is an engineless barge that is used for an accommodation and docked in the port of Portland, Dorset. Between 1994 and 1998, it was used for the homeless in Hamburg, Germany. And in 2005, …
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have killed” Wagner boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and that there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine. Writing in a Daily Mail op-ed on Saturday, August 27, Johnson speculated about Prigozhin’s last moments, just days after a plane believed to be carrying the Wagner boss crashed in a field northwest of Moscow while en route to St. Petersburg. The ex-British PM claimed that …
Popular Nigerian medical practitioner on Twitter, Dr. Olufunmilayo, has said that a lot of Nigerians living abroad, particularly those who reside in the United Kingdom, lie about experiencing hardship abroad just to avoid ‘’billing” from their family and friends, In a Twitter thread, Olufunilayo said although life is not that easy in the UK, the way Nigerians residing abroad paint a life of hardship is false. Read his tweets below.
The cause of death of a Nigerian student who was found in Epping Forest in the UK after a missing person probe was ‘consistent with drowning’, an inquest has heard. 18-year-old Richard Okorogheye was found in a pond in the woodland on April 5, 2021, two weeks after he went missing from his home in Ladbroke Grove, west London. Mr. Okorogheye had sickle cell anaemia and left home on the evening of March 22 without his …
Police charged a 33-year-old asylum seeker with the r3pe of a woman in Skegness, Lincolnshire, 40 days after arriving in the UK after crossing the Channel in a dinghy. The victim says she was dragged into bushes by a stranger and attacked, The Sun reports. A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said: ‘Officers were called to the Tower Gardens area of Skegness just after 10.40pm on Friday, June 9 to a report of a sexual assault.’ At a …