US-based lawyer Owolabi Salis makes history as first Nigerian in space
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS-based lawyer and political figure Owolabi Salis has become the first Nigerian to voyage beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Read More
No going back: Lagos begins full enforcement of single use plastic ban
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Lagos State Government has commenced immediate enforcement of the ban on certain categories of Single Use Plastics (SUPs), specifically those under…
Child’s first 1000 days of life ‘critical’ in preventing obesity, academics say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAcademics are calling for action to prevent unhealthy lifestyles from settling in among babies and toddlers as childhood obesity reaches “alarming” levels. Read…
NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medics
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHospitals and GP practices in England will be told to slash the number of overseas-trained doctors and nurses they recruit under government…
Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe welfare bill has gone through, but what is on the minds of most Labour MPs and supporters is how did we get…
‘Make foreign students pay £10k deposit so they don’t claim asylum’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteForeign students should be made to pay an upfront £10,000 surety to prevent them claiming asylum, a think tank has urged. Read…
Universities are a 'backdoor to migration' and graduate visas must be axed, report warns
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUniversities are a ‘backdoor’ for ‘unprecedented migration’ and graduate visas should be scrapped, a new report says. Read More
Trump says he'll order the 'DOGE monster' to 'eat' Elon Musk and considers deporting him as their feud explodes
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePresident Donald Trump said he is open to deporting Elon Musk and added an additional threat: turning DOGE – the agency Musk founded – against…
Over 14 million people could die from US foreign aid cuts: study
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of…
France says au revoir to public smoking
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA loosely dangled cigarette would once have been de rigueur for anyone spending a summer’s day at a beach or park in…