Fresh blow risks impacting tens of thousands of staff and 14 million customers Santander is reportedly considering leaving Britain over excessive red tape, in a blow that risks impacting tens of thousands of staff and some 14 million customers. The Spanish banking giant is considering pulling out of the UK as part of a strategic review of its future, according to the Financial Times. If executives decide to leave, they…

Washington, D.C. – Hours before his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump addressed thousands of enthusiastic supporters at a “Make America Great Again Victory Rally” in Washington, D.C., pledging a swift and decisive start to his second term. In a fiery speech, Trump previewed his agenda for the next four years, promising to act with “historic speed and strength” to address the nation’s challenges. The…

Hopes are rising that, with the support of the United Nations, the architects of the brutal former regime of Bashar al Assad in Syria will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. For years, UN human rights bodies have been documenting, monitoring and publishing reports on abuses, and bringing Syria’s dire human rights record to the world’s attention. The fall of Bashar al Assad in December 2024 was largely greeted…

One millionaire left Britain every 45 minutes in the year Labour came to power, figures suggest. The UK lost 10,800 millionaires to overseas countries last year, more than double the number in 2023, according to new data. The wealth exodus equates to 30 millionaires leaving a day – approximately one every three quarters of an hour. It comes as Labour plans to abolish centuries-old tax laws that allow foreign investors to…

Nigerian president’s economic shock therapy has gutted the middle class and the megacity’s festive party scene. “Detty December” is almost upon Lagos, but you would not know it from the atmosphere in bars and clubs throughout Nigeria’s largest city. Lagos’s world-famous nightlife reaches its raucous peak during the month, when festive abandon by locals coincides with an influx of foreign currency-carrying diasporans. “Detty” is a light-hearted alternative for “dirty”…

It is not yet clear that the Gaza ceasefire will even come into force. But, if the war is indeed ending, what has it meant for the world? For Israel, the impact seems double-edged. The country’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, can argue that he has turned a national tragedy into a strategic victory. Hamas has been devastated, if not entirely destroyed. Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant group that was the most…

One common thread running through the 2025 year ahead outlooks from banks and asset managers was a near-consensus view that the dollar would strengthen further in the coming 12 months. Like much else in the incoming Trump administration’s agenda, the talk around the value of the greenback has been at times contradictory. Donald Trump himself, together with many of his key trade policy advisers, has long argued that a…

Former governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Peter Obi has called for implementation of measures that would end the recurring tanker explosion on the country. Obi made the call in a statement on Sunday while reacting to the recent tragic incident along Dikko-Maje Road in the Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State, where several lives were lost on Saturday. NEW…

Unknown gunmen has reportedly killed a Shepherd-in-charge of a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), identified as Yomi Adetula, in Idiroko Border town of the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State. Leadership reported that the cleric was shot dead on Sunday inside Hebrew Celestial Church, located in the Odo Eran area of the Old Garage Road in Idiroko around 11 a.m. during service while preaching. According to the report, an…

The Federal Government has conveyed its sympathies to the government and people of Niger State following the petrol tanker explosion at Dikko Junction in Gurara Local Government Area on Saturday. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nantewe Yilwatda, described the incident in a statement released on Sunday as tragic, noting that it claimed many lives and caused extensive property damage. The statement was issued in Abuja by…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 26-year-old nursing student attempting to smuggle 76 wraps of cocaine to India. The suspect, Esther Onyinyechi Uzodinma, a second-year nursing student at Noida International University in Uttar Pradesh, India, was apprehended just hours before her scheduled flight from Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, to Delhi. A statement issued by NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Sunday, said the…

The Amai community in Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State was thrown into deep grief and fear as a 70-year-old man, Mr Aghanti, and his daughter, 50, Mrs Atagoshi, were reportedly beheaded over a land dispute. The gruesome incident occurred after the suspect allegedly lured the victims into the bush under the pretext of discussing the land issue. Their headless bodies were later discovered in the bush. According to…