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Chita Agwu Johnson has become the latest Nigerian celebrity to be robbed in London. The actress who is in the UK for the holidays has been sharing beautiful photos from the country with her location on display.
Sadly, she was targeted by robbers at Finchley Road Station in London.
She added that they took all the valuables she had and she couldn’t sleep last night as a result.
Toke Makinwa and Adegbite Damilola are some Nigerian celebrities recently robbed in the UK.
Damilola Adegbite has disclosed that she was a victim of a robbery attack in London.
The Nigerian actress said her handbag was snatched with her phone and all the money for trip was taken
She explained that she would have been stranded if not for a helper.
She later got an alert from Apple that her iPhone is now in China.
This is coming after media personality, Toke Makinwa revealed that she was robbed in London recently.
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to leave for London today, October 31, for a medical check-up.
His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this earlier today in a tweet on his verified personal handle.
He said the President will return to the country the second week of November.
Nigerian music star, Davido and his fiancee, Chioma Rowland, shared a kiss at a nightclub in London.
The couple has been grabbing attention since Davido announced that they are getting married next year.
The singer dropped the hint during a visit to a famous clergyman, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega in London.
Davido had on September 3rd, 2019, held an introduction with Chioma’s family.
A Nigerian man identified as Kunle Adeyanju who began a London to Lagos ride with his powerbike has landed in Africa after traveling for five days.
CorrectNG reported earlier that he embarked on the cross-country trip from London, UK on April 19 as he noted he is is expected to last on the road for 25 days and cover 12,000kms.
Kunle took his Twitter account on April 25 to announce that he has reached Africa. He shared a photo of himself at the Casablanca boundary in Morocco.
According to him, the charity ride is aimed at raising funds which will be dedicated to primary healthcare, Polio plus project, water and sanitation.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
I am in Africa!!!
#LondonToLagos”, he wrote.
See his post:
A Nigerian man, Kunle Adeyanju on Tuesday, April 19, commenced a cross-country charity ride from London to Lagos using a motorbike.
He made the announcement in a post on his Twitter page as he noted the trip is expected to last for 25 days and cover 12,000km.
Kunle gave a rundown of how he will pass 14 countries and the ride will start from London, through France, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, Mali, Ghana and the final destination being Lagos, Nigeria.
According to him, the funds raised during the course of the charity ride will be dedicated to primary healthcare, Polio plus project, water and sanitation.
Sharing photos on April 19 when he embarked on the trip, Kunle wrote;
”I commenced the London – Lagos Charity Ride today April the 19th, 2022.
The ride is expected to last 25days, spanning a total distance of about 12,000km.
The ride will traverse London – France – Spain – Gibraltar – Morocco – Western Sahara – Mauritania – St Louis – Senegal – Gambia – Mali – Cote d’Ivoire – Ghana – Togo – Benin – Lagos.
Day 1 of the Charity Ride involves riding from London to Dover, where I went on a ferry to cross the English Channel to Calais France and then ride to Borges France, my stop point for the day.
Total ride distance for day 1 is to be about 745km.
100% of fund raised will be channeled to Primary Health, Water & Sanitation, PolioPlus project.
Particularly 20% of fund raised will be targeted to support the fight to sustain Africa Polio free status.
Our target is N20m, pls join Hans with me and support this noble initiative massively. And personally I will be giving a 10% match grant for every donation”
Former goalkeeper of the Nigerian national women’s football team, Rachael Aladi Ayegba is now a double-decker bus driver in London.
UK is battling with a crisis of driver shortage during the pandemic and Ayegba who decided to lend a helping hand, signed up to be a driver of the buses, Standard UK reports.
She played in the 2007 Women’s World Cup, the 2006 and 2008 African Women’s Championships and had an 11-year stint as a professional footballer in Finland, winning the league title in 2013 with PK-35 Vantaa.
The UK publication reports that she now drives the number 185 between Lewisham and Victoria. She is in the middle of a year’s training.
The 35-year-old who moved to England in 2018, says she had visited London for years on holiday and always admired the double decker buses.
She works for Go-Ahead, the bus and train giant that operates about a fifth of the capital’s buses on behalf of TfL.
She reckons driving a bus and playing in goal have a lot in common, which is about safety first and about not making a mistake.
When you are trying to save the ball, you need safe hands. But there are ten others on your side.
When you drive a bus, you are on your own.
“Mentally you have to be 100% ready, if you are a goalkeeper the defenders can help you. You can’t make any mistakes driving a bus,” she was quoted on Standard UK.
On the issue of bus drivers not getting enough respect, she said;
“They don’t. I think we just see a bus driver as a nobody. I see them more like a pilot, if anything goes wrong, it’s on them. Now I’ve done the training, the people I respect most, after my family, are the drivers.”
Ayegba, whose favourite player is Cristiano Ronaldo, doesn’t play football anymore, though she has coaching licenses.
“I am old. You have to know when to stop,” she said.
The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, returned to Nigeria on Friday night.
The ex-Lagos State governor, who left the country for the United Kingdom in July, was in the European nation for three months.
Sources at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport and others close to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, confirmed the arrival of the APC chieftain to journalists.
Tinubu, who reportedly underwent surgery for an undisclosed illness in the United States, is one of the several politicians eyeing the APC presidential ticket for the 2023 election.
Several politicians including President Muhammadu Buhari, Sanwo-Olu, his Ekiti counterpart, Kayode Fayemi, and the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, among others visited the ex-governor in London.
In a video that surfaced on social media last week, one of the politicians from the North was seen calling the APC leader “Mr. President.”
The Nigerian Mission in London, United Kingdom, has been shut for 10 days as two of its officials tested positive for covid-19 on Thursday.
One of the Nigerian officials had gone to the UK Home Office for a meeting where a test revealed his status, which prompted the testing of other staff of the Mission resulting in another positive case.
Following the incident, the Mission in line with the COVID-19 regulation and need to adhere to the rules and regulation of the host country, said it will close down for the next 10 days, to observe the mandatory isolation of those who were in contact with the affected officials.
In a statement on Thursday titled, ‘Closure of Nigerian High Commission, London,’ the Mission said, “This afternoon, the Head of Immigration Section and two other officials went for a meeting at the Home Office.
At the entrance, Covid test was administered on them and one of them tested positive to COVID-19. The affected officer immediately isolated while the other officials, who tested negative will also isolate for the next 10 days.
“In response to this challenge, the Mission embarked on testing all officials of the Mission, after which another official of the Mission tested positive.
“In line with COVID-19 regulation and the need to adhere to the rules and regulation of the host country, the Mission will close down for the next 10 days, in order to observe the mandatory isolation of those who were in contact with the affected officials.
“While the High Commission regrets any inconvenience that this may have caused, we solicit the cooperation of the general public.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in London.
The President travelled to the United Kingdom late last month for a routine medical checkup.
He later attended the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE 2021-2025).
Buhari is expected back in the country later this week.
On the other hand, the former Lagos State governor left the country over one month ago.
Reports had said the APC chieftain was treated for an undisclosed illness in a United States hospital.
However, some of Tinubu’s associates including the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had dismissed the reports.
Sanwo-Olu, who visited the ex-governor in London recently, insisted that he was “hale and hearty.”
He said: “I went to see things for myself. It is just to put the minds and hearts of people to rest that there is nothing for us to worry about.”
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday travel to London, United Kingdom for medical reasons.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
He explained that the President’s trip to London was for a scheduled medical follow-up, adding that he would be back in the country during the second week of July.
President Buhari’s scheduled trip to London comes almost three months since he last visited the United Kingdom for the same purpose.
He had travelled to the United Kingdom on March 30 for a routine medical check-up, as indicated in a statement by his media adviser.
The President later returned to the country via the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on April 15, at the end of the trip which lasted more than two weeks.
Our man crush for today is Mike Olayemi Edwards. He was the first runner up in the “pepper dem” edition of the Big Brother Naija reality television show . He was known for his display of maturity and proper conduct throughout the show.
Mike is an entrepreneur who owns the first black owned cigar company in the United Kingdom known as “Aireyys” which has been endorsed by Steve Harvey, Essence Magazine and many more. He is also a professional athlete who has represented Great Britain in the past and currently represents Nigeria. The thirty year old father of one was born in Lagos, Nigeria to a Jamaican father and a Nigerian mother.
Mike Edwards married his British athlete wife, Perri Shakes-Drayton in London in June, 2019. He is often seen hanging out with his wife. He describes himself as a free-spirited animal, someone that likes being free and enjoying life
