Rotimi Amaechi calls on the governors to be radical + tinubus records that can be presented in London

A former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, criticized governors under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

According to him, he was radical enough as chairman of the Governor Forum to challenge the government of the day.

He accused the governors of not facing President Tinubu in the current state of the nation.

Amaechi made the comments during the book start of Sule Lamido, a former governor of the State of Jigawa.

Amaechi also told how he and Lamido worked against the second ambitions of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

In the meantime, Top government officials, including the Federal Minister of the Federal Capital, Nyesom Wike and the Minister of Labor, Dave Umahi to London travel to London to present the success of President Bola Tinubu's administration at an international press conference and to create a wave of reactions.

The event, which is planned for Friday, June 27, will serve as a platform for minister and agency manager to emphasize the most important achievements in the past two years.

On Monday, dozens of Nigerians performed a protest outside the Nigerian Hochkommission and the British home office as part of the Nigeria movement.

The demonstrators called for the deportation of the former NNPCL chief Mele Kyari and accused him of escaping Nigeria to avoid the EFCC penalty tracking due to suspected corruption of several billion dollars.

The demonstrators carried posters with inscriptions with the inscription: “London is not for civil servants who abuse the public's trust” and sang: “Kyari has to go!”

The group took petitions to both the Nigerian and the British authorities, whereby Kyari has poorly managed refineries and led a shady fuel, while the Nigerians were confronted with a lack of fuel.

Many parents and students protest against the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary matriculation test (UTME), citing unusually low scores.

On Tuesday, the parents stormed the Jamb office in Lagos to express their displeasure and found that over 78% of the candidates scored under 200 out of 400 points.

The students and their families also went to social media to request the results to be checked by using the hashtag #thisisnotmryresult.

In Great Britain, Prime Minister Keir Stammer announced important changes to his immigration system on Monday to reduce legal migration and to restore the public's trust. This includes strengthening the English language and the reduction of the period that students can spend the night after completing their studies in the country.

According to the new rules, the graduate visa route is also reduced from two years to 18 months, while the residence request for comparison and citizenship is extended five to ten years.

The reforms described in a white paper entitled “Restoration of the Control of the Immigration System” also suggest to set the recruitment in overseas for social care by 2028.

This is all after Kemi asked Badenoch to say goodbye to a legislative template that will deport all foreign criminals.

The draft law also includes mandatory age reviews and harder visa rules and aims to withdraw the support of Asylum.

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