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The UK’s Home Office has introduced reforms that will see asylum seekers paying around £10,000 (around N18 million) to be eligible for settlement. The bill was introduced to parliament on Tuesday and sets out new powers for the Home Office to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support such as subsistence or accommodation, provided they have access to sufficient funds. Asylum seekers have not typically been expected to pay to seek settlement, and it is not a global norm. However, Shabana Mahmood, home secretary, said asylum seekers in the UK have become a financial burden on the taxpayer.…

President Donald Trump, in his usual gruff manner, elbowed aside a major loss Tuesday at the Supreme Court, whose 6-3 decision struck down one of his signature initiatives: an effort to limit birthright citizenship. Trump and some of his congressional allies, according to NBC News, quickly said they weren’t fully giving up the fight, saying they believed one path was to pass a law including the same provisions as his defeated order. But with the current makeup of Congress, that legislation would be dead on arrival. “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but…

Mr Collins Ogbetamah, a lawmaker representing Udu Constituency in Delta State House of Assembly lost his seat on Tuesday after he announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC). Ogbetamah had in a letter dated June 19 to the Speaker of Delta Assembly, Mr Dennis Guwor, formally notified the house of his defection from the APC to the NDC. Following deliberations, Majority Leader of the assembly, Dr Emeka Nwaobi invoked relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, moving a motion declaring the seat vacant and requesting INEC to conduct a by-election. The…

The Federal Government’s newly approved reform of the National Youth Service Corps splits the orientation programme into three distinct phases and introduces 11 specialised career streams that corps members will select from at registration, according to details provided by the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala Usman, on Monday. The Federal Executive Council on Monday approved the comprehensive overhaul of the 53-year-old scheme, with the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, describing it as the first holistic review of NYSC since it was established in 1973. Briefing State House correspondents alongside Olawande after the FEC…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict birthright citizenship, preserving the long-standing constitutional interpretation that most children born in the United States are automatically U.S. citizens, including children born to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country. “Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” the court said. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise…

A High Court sitting in Sokoto State has sentenced three men, including a foreign national, to death by hanging, following their conviction on charges bothering on terrorism and arms proliferation. The convicts, Yusuf Muhammad (alias Sallau), a Nigeriene, Jabbi Alhaji Yalle, and Kabiru Muhammad were apprehended on 13th June, 2025, by the Department of State Services Counter Terrorism Unit in connection with cross-border criminal activities bordering on arms trafficking and terrorism. The case, marked SS/45c/2026, was presided over by Justice Muhammad Nuraddeen Bello of High Court No. 23, Sokoto. Delivering judgment, Justice Bello found all three defendants guilty as charged…

The Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission has said electricity supply licensees cannot recover charges that are more than 12 months old. The commission disclosed this in a consumer awareness message published on its official social media platform as part of efforts to enlighten electricity consumers on their rights. According to LASERC, consumers should not be made to pay charges older than 12 months except in cases involving meter tampering, illegal use of electricity, or obstruction of meter reading. “Electricity supply licensees cannot recover charges older than 12 months, except in cases of meter tampering, illegal use, and obstruction of meter…

The Federal Government has started new efforts to improve tax collection in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and stop the problem of multiple taxation. The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, disclosed this after a meeting with the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday. According to Oyedele, the meeting focused on strengthening cooperation between the Ministry of Finance and the FCT Administration to support development projects in Abuja. A major part of the discussion was how to improve tax administration in the territory. He explained that the proposed tax harmonisation would create…

A Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Friday set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) as a political party. Justice Isah Dashen, the presiding judge held that all relevant parties must be heard before any substantive decision can be made in the matter. The court upheld the application filed by the Peace Movement Party (PMP), ruling that the party was a necessary party to the suit. According to the judge, the earlier judgment was constitutionally defective as it was delivered without hearing from all interested parties.…

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has imposed a personal cost of ₦50 million on a legal practitioner, S.M. Danyaro, over what it described as a vexatious, irresponsible, abusive and unprofessional application filed before the apex court. The ruling was delivered by Justice Chioma Egondu Nwosu-Iheme, JSC, in relation to proceedings arising from Appeal No. SC.266/2017. In the ruling, Justice Nwosu-Iheme agreed with the lead ruling delivered by Justice Jamilu Yammama Tukur, JSC, and held that the application was one of the most thoughtless and irresponsible applications ever brought before the Supreme Court. The court described the application as unusual, vexatious,…