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Guidance on family life (partner or parent) 5-year routes published following July Statement of ChangesNew Home Office guidance on deciding partner/parent visa applications in wake of MM (Lebanon) and OthersFollowing the February Supreme Court judgment in MM (Lebanon) and Others on the minimum income requirement for partner visas and the subsequent Statement of Changes in …
Diezani Alison-MaduekeNigeria’s anti-graft agency said it traced at least $615 million of allegedly illegally acquired cash and properties to the West Africa nation’s former oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.In addition to “boxes of gold, silver and diamond jewelry, worth several million pounds” found at her residence, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission identified more than a …
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The Speaker of the Edo state House of Assembly, Justin Okonoboh pictured above, has been impeached. He was impeached by members of the Assembly this morning. A new speaker, Kabiru Ajoto, has been elected as the new Speaker
A thread twitches across time: I was only nine when the “battle of Lewisham” was fought on 13 August 1977, but four decades later I can still remember the frightening chants of the National Front marchers, audible from our street, and the charred bins and strewn rocks and glass left behind after the three-way clash …
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The small Nigerian town of Nnewi has more naira billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country. Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II The royal honor came after he helped the British …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 