TRIBUTES have been paid to a stalwart of Thurrock Labour Party and a man well known and remembered for his work among the Thurrock Scouting Community. Colin Ricks, 60, who was trained and worked as a local baker earlier in his life, died in hospital after a short illness on Tuesday (6 June), though he …
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UK passport application fees Adult (16 and over) standard 34-page passport - £75.50 Nigeria passport application fees Adult (16 and over) standard 30-page passport - £115.14 UK passports have better security features and allows visa free entry to most of the world. Nigeria passports have less security features and allows visa free entry to the …
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One of the first things that had been cited as evidence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu showing courage and wisdom and hitting the ground running as the 16th President of Nigeria, has been his announcement that “fuel subsidy is gone”. In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, he did not state how but within …
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George Osbourne The bells tolled at 4pm today, the deadline when every shred of evidence would be handed over by law to Heather Hallett, the retired high court judge. The government set up the Covid inquiry, ordained its wide remit, gave its chair legal powers to command whatever evidence she deems necessary, but then balked …
MAJOR GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) bows out today as the fourth Executive President of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, and the fifth in its history, and across the country and its far-flung diaspora, a loud, collective sigh of relief can be heard. It has by a wide consensus been eight locust years of privation, insecurity, division, shortages …
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