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More than 70 people remain unaccounted for after the Grenfell Tower blaze and 30 are confirmed dead, it has been revealed. Police released updated figures on the deaths on Friday as anger in the community grew over what residents said was a lack of information being released to them. Scores of protesters entered Kensington town hall in the afternoon chanting: …

Theresa May visited victims of the Grenfell Tower blaze in a west London hospital on Friday, after being criticised for failing to meet residents of the block earlier. Mrs May spent almost an hour speaking to patients and staff at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Friday. She had been widely criticised on Thursday when she went to the scene …

The Lagos State Government will host the maiden ‘Ankara’ carnival in September as parts of efforts to resuscitate the moribund textile industry and create job opportunities for the unemployed. Mr. Olawale Oladunjoye who addressed a news conference in Lagos said that the carnival would hold between Sept. 2, 2017, and Sept. 9, 2017, at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere in …

Iraqis are being swept up in immigration raids across the US and targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, in a crackdown attorneys and advocates described as a “death sentence” for members of Iraq’s Christian minority. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) arrested more than 200 Iraqi nationals over the weekend who have been the subject of deportation orders following …

The residents of the Grenfell Tower block have been failed and betrayed by the local council, the new Labour MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, has said, expressing fury at the way Kensington and Chelsea treats its social housing tenants. She said residents made homeless by the fire were increasingly concerned that they would be rehoused outside of the borough, …

Donald Trump is reportedly being investigated for potential obstruction of justice by the special counsel looking into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. This marks the first time that the investigation, which has hung over Trump since his inauguration, has potentially implicated the president himself. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday night that the federal investigation into the Trump …

The Labour MP David Lammy has called the Grenfell Tower blaze “corporate manslaughter” as police announced the number of dead had risen to 17 and warned it would rise further during a painstaking search of the remains of the building. Firefighters were forced to stop looking for the dead on Thursday because of fears the building might collapse. The commissioner …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), says the three-month quit ultimatum issued to Igbos residing in Northern Nigeria by Arewa Youth is capable of dismantling the nation’s unity and diversity even as it potentially violates sections 42 & 43 of the Nigerian Constitution (as amended). That section of the constitution …

Acting president Yemi Osibanjo on Tuesday attributed the nation’s increasing security problems to corrupt practices and injustice. He also said inability of government to provide the basic needs of the people gave rise to incessant agitations by ethnic groups in the country. Osinbajo spoke at the 50th Conference of Nigerian Law Teachers Association held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, …

Members of Taraba State chapter of Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, clad with arms, yesterday, took its protest against the state’s Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranchers Establishment Bill 2017 to the House of Assembly, threatening breakdown of law if the bill is passed. The anti-open grazing bill was sponsored as an executive bill to the state House of …