The UK Home Office has revised the list of Secure English Language Tests (SELT) accepted for visa and citizenship applications. The SELT is a mandatory requirement for various visa categories and UK citizenship applications. This update introduces new test formats and clarifies requirements for applicants worldwide. The change was announced on the official UK Government website, aiming to make the …

No fewer than 14,815 Nigerian-trained nurses and midwives have been licensed to practise in the United Kingdom from 2017 to September 2024, according to The PUNCH. This is according to the latest report on the number of Nigerian nursing and midwifery professionals on the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council, obtained exclusively by The PUNCH. As of 31 March 2024, there …

Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule, have departed the country for the United Kingdom on a tour. Since they were suspended alongside the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, nothing had been heard about the lawmakers, who were on the verge of removing Fubara before President Bola Tinubu declared the …

A Labour Party lawmaker on Saturday said he regretted ‘badly misjudged’ comments after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sacked him as a minister It is the latest bump in the road Starmer’s government has hit in its first seven months in power despite a landslide election victory in July 2024. The premier dismissed Andrew Gwynne as a junior health minister …

The founder of Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church (SPAC Nation), Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, is facing allegations of fraud with claims that he is set to be deported to Nigeria. But the preacher whom many have described as flamboyant said his ordeal with the UK authorities was orchestrated. The Nigerian pastor said the persecution started after a member of parliament (MP) from …

A Nigerian pastor whose church was shut down over an alleged £1.87 million fraud has lost his fight against deportation, despite claiming it would breach his human rights. An immigration tribunal has ruled that Tobi Adegboyega, 44, the cousin of John Boyega, the Star Wars actor, should be deported back to his native Nigeria after investigations, including by The Telegraph, …

A professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, Dapo Akande, is set to be nominated by the United Kingdom (UK) for election to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In a statement, UK ambassador to the Netherlands and ICJ representative, Joanna Roper said Akande would be nominated in 2026. “The UK is pleased to announce that Professor …

No fewer than 1,425 international students who gained admission to universities in the United Kingdom were denied entry at the country’s airports between 2021 and 2023. A total of 161 Nigerians were affected, as they were removed on arrival at airports across the UK. According to data exclusively obtained from the UK Home Office through the Freedom of Information Act, …

Four Nigerians have been jailed after forging more than 2,000 marriage certificates to help people live in the United Kingdom (UK) illegally. Abraham Alade Olarotimi Onifade, 41, Abayomi Aderinsoye Shodipo, 38, Nosimot Mojisola Gbadamosi, 31, and Adekunle Kabir, 54, were all sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Tuesday. The Home Office said the four were part of an …

Due to the current economic crunch in the country, payments by Nigerian students for the new academic session starting in September, this year, in universities in the United Kingdom (UK) have dropped by 65 per cent compared to last year, a report by the Financial Times of London has said. The report also indicated that payments by students from India …