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The rate has drifted since January. Check it before your next transfer goes out. Short and direct. The naira has been under renewed pressure since the Iran war began on February 28. Foreign portfolio investors have been pulling out of emerging market positions as...
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Eight days until the student visa landscape changes again. Here’s what’s moving. Eight days from today, March 26, the UK introduces something it’s never formally done before: a national-level Student Route Visa Brake. From that date, nationals...
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Tinubu is at Windsor. For 270,000 Nigerians in the UK, the visit lands differently depending on where your family is from. The state banquet at Windsor Castle is happening tonight. King Charles. Queen Camilla. President and Mrs Tinubu. The first Nigerian...
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The naira weakened again. If you set your monthly amount in January, adjust it. Nigeria’s annual inflation eased to 15.06% in February, the lowest since 2020. That was the good news. Bloomberg reported the easing this week but noted it came before the Iran...
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Class 2 National Insurance ends April 6. You have three weeks. If you’ve been living and working in the UK and paying voluntary National Insurance contributions from abroad to build your UK state pension — this is a deadline you can’t miss. From April 6,...
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Nigerians are trapped across the Gulf. Other countries evacuated their citizens. Nigeria said wait for the airspace. Nine days. That’s how long one Nigerian family was stuck in Qatar, watching the situation unfold on their phones while other governments...