Nigeria’s woeful outing at London 2017 – Editorial Punch Newspapers

NIGERIAN athletics is in tatters. To cap it all, the country’s 17-man contingent to the 2017 World Athletics Championships returned home without winning any medal. Not even Blessing Okagbare could save Nigeria’s blushes as the world’s best gathered in London, England for the biennial event organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. For a …

Ex-legal chief attacks Theresa May’s ‘foolish’ claim on European court of justice by Jamie Doward of The Guardian

Theresa May’s Brexit strategy has been thrown into new doubt as a former head of the government’s legal services ridicules the prime minister’s claim that the UK can break free of all European laws while continuing to reap the economic benefits of the EU’s single market.Sir Paul Jenkins, who was the government’s most senior legal …

Home Office used charity data map to deport rough sleepers – Mark Townsend of The Guardian

The Home Office secretly acquired sensitive data, showing the nationality of people sleeping rough on the streets, in order to remove them from Britain, the Observer can reveal.A chain of emails sent by senior Home Office immigration officials show how they used information that was designed to protect rough sleepers to target vulnerable individuals for …