Cases of whooping cough are spiking in the UK, as experts warn of the serious impacts the disease can have on sufferers. The highly contagious infection, also known as pertussis, can be particularly dangerous for young children. Data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows more than 700 ...

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The United Kingdom’s inflation-fuelled cost-of-living crisis is set to “cut lives short” and “significantly widen the wealth-health gap”, according to a study published by open access journal BMJ Public Health on Monday. Modelling conducted for the study predicted that the proportion of people ...

Jessica Frank-Keyes Workers across more than a dozen train companies are set to walk out this weekend, with major London hubs likes Euston and Waterloo set to be left empty. Swathes of the UK will have no train services running on Friday, amid the latest round of major coordinated transport ...

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) reported overall food inflation rose 11.5% in August, down from 13.4% in July, Sky News reported. But annual growth in average total pay only grew by 8.2% from April to June, according to the latest data available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). ...

The British government has purchased tents which could be used to house up to 2,000 migrants on disused military sites beginning next month, until their immigration documents are processed. The British government has come under fire yet again for its controversial migration policy, this ...

Jon Fellowes In some (seemingly rare) good financial news, new banking customers with TSB are being offered a new cash incentive. With a cost of living crisis still gripping the nation and mortgage prices reaching record highs, any opportunity to get a few extra pounds into the bank account is ...

By Anirudh Saligrama July 8 (Reuters) - Nearly 900 Amazon (AMZN.O) workers at a warehouse in Britain will stage a strike for three days in the coming week over a pay dispute, labour union GMB said on Saturday. The strike will take place from July 11-13 at Amazon's warehouse in Coventry, for ...

mediaofficer The NHS recruitment and training body, Health Education England (HEE), confirmed funding for a new Medical Doctor Degree Apprenticeship in January. The apprenticeships are also part of the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan, which will see the biggest expansion of training in ...

Transport for Wales (TfW) is reminding passengers to check before they travel, with further industrial action involving train drivers set to take place next week. The train drivers’ union ASLEF has announced its members at 16 train operating companies, including Avanti, CrossCountry, Great ...

By Seun Opejobi President Bola Tinubu has recalled his sojourn in the United States, US, and the United Kingdom, UK. Tinubu recalled working as a night guard and doorman in the US and UK. Speaking over the weekend while interacting with the Nigerian community in France, Tinubu said he ...

By  Stephen Angbulu The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, said, on Wednesday, that the number of Nigerians travelling to the United Kingdom via study route had multiplied five times in the last three years. Montgomery explained that his country’s decision banning ...

By Wale Odunsi The United Kingdom has slammed restrictions on student visa routes in a bid to cut net migration, a statement on Tuesday announced. The policy restricts students from Nigeria and other countries from bringing family members on all but postgraduate research routes. The government ...

Agency Report Britain unveiled new sanctions against Russia on Friday, targeting imports of diamonds and other minerals in a bid to choke Moscow’s ability to fund the war in Ukraine. Before a G7 summit in Japan began, London said it would introduce “a ban on Russian diamonds”, copper, ...

The UK will conduct its first test of a new emergency alert service on Sunday, with millions of mobile phones set to emit a loud alarm and vibrate at 3:00pm (1400 GMT). The national system, modelled on similar schemes in Canada, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States, aims to warn the ...

By Omeiza Ajayi No fewer than 17 heads and senior leaders of top schools in the United Kingdom will be visiting Nigeria next month as part of the “UK Boarding Schools Week” fair. The delegation is expected to meet with Nigerian families anxious to see their wards receive education in London. ...

By  Lara Adejoro The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria and 53 other countries on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. The announcement was contained in the revised code of practice for the international recruitment ...

Spotify, a global online streaming platform, says Davido’s music is most streamed in the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada and France. Victor Okpala, Spotify’s Artiste and Label Partnerships Manager for West Africa, in a statement on Tuesday, said songs by Davido featured on over 10 million ...

By Clifford Ndujihe, Dapo Akinrefon, Peter Duru & Davies Iheamnachor, LAGOS The United Kingdom, yesterday, expressed displeasure over ethnic profiling of non-indigenes in Lagos, which it said ought to be a cosmopolitan city by some prominent Nigerians such as former Aviation Minister and a ...

No fewer than 35 officers of NDLEA Marine Command and Seaports Operations have completed specialised training in Nigeria and the United Kingdom to enhance their operational efficiency. The Director, of Media and Advocacy, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mr Femi Babafemi said this ...

The United Kingdom authorities have arrested a Nigerian national trying to smuggle more than 83,000 cigarettes into Newcastle International Airport. According to Daily Mail, Samuel Onyemenam was intercepted in the UK carrying his luggage as on flight from Nigeria via Germany. Officers from ...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said the draft migrant legislation proposed by the United Kingdom Government will result in a de facto “asylum ban”. UNHCR, in a statement, said if adopted, the new bill would deny the right to seek refugee protection to people arriving irregularly in the UK, ...

The programme is designed to allow the ESO to access additional flexibility when national demand is at its highest during cold spells. A plan to pay up to one million people and businesses in some parts of the UK to cut energy between 5 pm and 6 pm on Monday evening as part of a scheme to ...

Edidiong Ikpoto Friday Olokor, Abiodun Sanusi, Gift Habib and El-ameen Ibrahim The United Kingdom and Australia have asked their citizens to avoid travel to Nigeria in the latest security advisories issued on Thursday. Also, the European Union warned that insecurity might prevent elections ...

Rohan Parakkad The precise moment in which Vladimir Putin's invasion army will lose the conflict in Ukraine has been calculated, according to scientists, Daily Star reported. Since the initial invasion of Ukraine in February, Russia has been engaged in what seems to be an endless battle. Andrew ...

The Met Office has warned of unsettled weather in the UK for the next few days, with the heaviest and most persistent rain set to fall over the weekend when people are celebrating New Year’s Eve By Minreet Kaur Snow, flooding and strong winds are forecast for parts of the UK in the run-up to ...

By  Sharon Osaji Almost every Nigerian knows one or two people who have left the country in the last five years in search of greener pastures in a new wave of emigration known as ‘japa’. What does ‘japa’ actually mean? Japa is a Yoruba word which means ‘to run away’ or ‘to leave somewhere or ...