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UK Bans Foreign Health Workers From Bringing Dependants

March 11, (THEWILL) - The United Kingdom (UK) has banned foreign health and care workers, including Nigerians, from bringing dependants to the country. Earlier, the Home Office had banned overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa...

UK Economy Slipped Into Recession In Second Half Of 2023 – ONS Report

February 15, (THEWILL) - The UK economy fell into recession in the last quarter of 2023, a report by The Office of National Statistics (ONS), showed on Thursday. A recession describes a situation of two consecutive three-month periods,...

Nigeria-UK Partnership Agreement Has No Provision Allowing British Lawyers To Practice In Nigeria – FG

February 14, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has said its Trade and investment partnership agreement with the United Kingdom (UK), has no provision allowing British lawyers licenced in the U.K to practice in Nigeria. Minister of Trade and Investment, Doris...

UK Signs Agreement To Allow British Lawyers To Practice In Nigeria

February 13, (THEWILL) - The United Kingdom (UK) and Nigeria are set to sign an agreement allowing British lawyers to practice in Nigeria. Previously, Nigerian law restricted foreign lawyers from practising domestic law. The UK government, in a statement, said the...

UK Trade Minister Badenoch Begins 3-Day Working Visit To Nigeria

February 11, (THEWILL) - The UK Minister for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch, has arrived in Nigeria, for a 3-day working visit to deepen the UK-Nigeria partnership. A statement by Senior Press & Public Affairs Officer and Comms Lead, Prosperity...

UK Approves Over 90,000, Companies, Organisations Eligible To Sponsor Nigerians’ Work Visa In 2024

January 16, (THEWILL) - The United Kingdom has approved about 99,856 companies and organisations, eligible to sponsor skilled immigrants through the temporary worker immigration route. According to the updated information on its website, the latest list, updated on January...

Standard Visitors With Approval Now Permitted To Work In UK

December 10, (THEWILL) - The British government has announced a change in the UK visitor visa policy, which would allow standard visitors to work in the country. In a statement on Thursday, the British Home Office said approval must...

P&ID Vs Nigeria: UK Court Quashes $11bn Arbitration Award Against Nigeria

October 23, (THEWILL) - The Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, sitting in London, has voided an arbitration order on Nigeria to pay a total of $6.6 billion as damages accruing from March 20, 2013, with interest...

OPINION: One Week In The United Kingdom Order, System And Sanction: Lessons For Nigeria

October 21, (THEWILL) - In the month of October 2023, I spent eight days in the United Kingdom (UK) attending a training on Strategy Leadership Governance. My experience brought to my consciousness the difference between the UK and...

Wasiu Ayinde’s Band Members Abscond After Show In UK

October 07, (THEWILL) - Two band members of Fuji maestro, Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, popularly known as KWAM1, the lead guitarist and the keyboardist, have reportedly absconded in the United Kingdom. The band boys were travelling for a performance at an...
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Lack Of Love Not Enough – Akwa Ibom Court Rejects Divorce Petition After 43-Year Marriage

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has dismissed a petition seeking the dissolution of a marriage that has lasted over 43 years, ruling that lack of love and mutual respect between spouses does not, on its own, constitute sufficient legal grounds for divorce.
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