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It is the latest announcement ahead of a speech on Monday by Reform’s shadow chancellor Robert Jenrick to formally unveil the party’s welfare plans.”Forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral,” Jenrick said in a statement.”People are more than happy to support their neighbours in hard times, but the British taxpayer cannot afford to subsidise everyone on the planet, especially those who have not paid in.”This year the government expects, external to spend a total of £322bn on welfare in Great Britain, or 10.6% of GDP, just over half of…

Last Saturday, angry students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka, attacked and stripped an unidentified lecturer in the Department of Chinese Studies over an allegation of attempted sexual molestation of a female student. NAU, a federal university in Anambra State, is popularly known as UNIZIK. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the incident happened after the female student came out of the lecturer’s office with his clothes, claiming that the lecturer attempted to sexually assault her in the office. This newspaper cited a video clip, which has gone viral, showing at least six men, believed to be students, hitting and stomping on…

The FedEx St. Jude Championship will conclude Sunday.Scottie Scheffler started the day atop the leaderboard entering the fourth round with a 13-under mark, including a course-tying 61 on Friday. Sungjae Im and Sam Burns trail him by just two shots, however, with Jake Knapp and Tommy Fleetwood tied for fourth place at 8 under.Will Scheffler hold on? Here are the best shots and highlights from Sunday at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.

By Adetutu Audu Actress and producer, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has donated all producer earnings, from her recent film, Mother’s Love, to Slum2School Africa, a charitable organization. She revealed the commitment through a video statement, detailing the film’s financial performance and the subsequent charitable transfer. The production garnered over N103 million at the box office before industry deductions. Once exhibitors, distributors, print costs, advertising expenses and various taxes, including entertainment and withholding taxes were factored in, the amount retained by the production team totaled just over N22 million. Jalade confirmed that this entire sum, consistent with Red Hot Concepts’ original pledge, went…

‘Wearing yellow spreads a bit of love’Andrew Geldart, 65, retired engineer, CornwallFor 30 years as a civil engineer I wore conventional grey and navy, then I retired at 55, moved down to Bude in Cornwall with my wife, Lynn, and the sun came out. Bude is a positive place, where you can be yourself. Everyone is friendly; it’s paradise.I first started down the yellow route 10 years ago when we moved to Bude with a camper van called Primrose. People gave me yellow accessories for it and the seed was sown – I thought I might wear yellow myself. Now…

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State on his election for a second term in office, describing the poll as a testament to democratic maturity. The Returning Officer for the Osun governorship election, Joshua Ogunwole, who announced the results at the INEC Collation Centre in Osogbo early Sunday, said Mr Adeleke of the Accord Party secured 511,067 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 444,815 votes. Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress came a distant third with 17,180 votes. Mr Otti, in a congratulatory…

Military authorities said up to 80% of soldiers have already been deployed to the many battle fronts against terrorists and bandits. Now, on oil company has decided to help at the home front with support to wives of soldiers. This is said to be as a way of supporting men of the Nigerian Army in the constitutional role of protecting the nation. Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Limited (SEEPCO) has thus considered it a necessity to empower their wives to enable them hold the home front. This is to strengthen their economic base and give succour to their home,…

Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with thick lead walls and wet sandbags, and placed it near a powerful nuclear reactor at the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina. They called the experiment Project Poltergeist, designed as it was to catch a ghost.More than a quarter of a century before, physicists had been puzzling over why energy appeared to be lost during a radioactive process called beta decay. Something was missing, and there was no known physics to explain it. Then in 1930, the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli proposed…

The latest DraftKings promo code gives new users $150 in bonus bets after making a first wager of $5 or more, and a full MLB schedule on Sunday gives you ample opportunity to take advantage. We’ve used the experts at SportsLine and the SportsLine Projection Model to craft our Sunday MLB best bets, which include MLB picks from Giants vs. Rockies, Dodgers vs. Brewers and Astros vs. Mariners. The Astros are set to start Hunter Brown (3-2, 3.68 ERA), while the Mariners will counter with Bryan Woo (8-8, 4.15 ERA). Claim the latest DraftKings promo code, where new users get $150 in…

Kamsy has been evicted from the Big Brother Naija Season 11 reality show after spending three weeks in the ‘Show Ya Sef’ house. The event planner and gift curator became one of the housemates to leave the competition during Sunday’s live eviction show, bringing her journey on the reality show to an end. Kamsy was among 16 housemates nominated for possible eviction in the third week of the competition. The nomination list also included Abi, Araga, Barry, Bells, Gerard, Goddessa, Keivo, Nomy, Oyin, Ricky, Sheba, Sultex, Temi Nkem, Tram and Yusuf. Her eviction comes after she survived the previous round…