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As you are no doubt aware, under the ‘Right to Rent’ rules, landlords are responsible for checking the immigration status of potential tenants and face fierce penalties if they rent to someone who does not have the ‘right to rent’ in the UK. Which can include a prison sentence. Many have complained that this is in …
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The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has alleged that some of the judges on the panel to hear the petition of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are working for President Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement by Ikenga Ugochinyere, its spokesman, the coalition said it had seen the names of …
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Existing US sanctions on Zimbabwe in place since 2003 have been extended for a further 12 months. President Donald Trump says the southern African nation poses an "unusual and extraordinary" threat to US foreign policy. He blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for failing to implement the "political and economic overhaul required to rebuild its reputation". …
Whoever came up with the wise saying that Nigerian politics is dirty deserves an award for perspicacity. I have just returned from that dirtied, muddled up, confused, uncertain, unpredictable zone of Nigerian life and society with truck loads of stories in my head and enough impressions in my mind to last me another life-time. As …
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Pius Adesanmi was one of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash March 10. (Josh Hotz/AP) NAIROBI — At a workshop in 2013, the Nigerian writer Chuma Nwokolo came up with a thought-provoking exercise: He asked the more than 40 assembled African thinkers to inscribe their own epitaph. “Here lies Pius Adesanmi,” one wrote, “who …
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