• Latest
  • Trending
Racial Discrimination: FCDO Guilty! Tribunal Rules in Favourof  Sonia Warner

Racial Discrimination: FCDO Guilty! Tribunal Rules in Favourof Sonia Warner

November 18, 2022
Chris Emovon Remembered: Tributes Pour In from ‎Hon. Chief Dr. Billy Famous Adesuwa Osawaru, Classmates, Associates, and Olu of Aponmu

Chris Emovon Remembered: Tributes Pour In from ‎Hon. Chief Dr. Billy Famous Adesuwa Osawaru, Classmates, Associates, and Olu of Aponmu

September 5, 2025
Dangote Denies Ownership of Truck in Enugu Fatal Crash

Dangote Denies Ownership of Truck in Enugu Fatal Crash

September 5, 2025
Edo Govt, UNICEF, BBGNSURF Launch Capacity-Building Workshop for Digital Teacher Management

PDP GOOFS AGAIN: Edo Govt Slams Opposition’s False Claims

September 5, 2025
ADVERTISEMENT
GTT Ramps Up Hiring Drive to Tackle Driver Shortage in Turin’s Public Transport

GTT Ramps Up Hiring Drive to Tackle Driver Shortage in Turin’s Public Transport

September 5, 2025
Missing BBNaija Twins' Brother Found in Lagos

Missing BBNaija Twins’ Brother Found in Lagos

September 5, 2025
Education Budget Shortfall Threatens Quality of Education in Nigeria

Education Budget Shortfall Threatens Quality of Education in Nigeria

September 5, 2025
"Troops Kill 13 Boko Haram Terrorists in Borno Ambush"

“Troops Kill 13 Boko Haram Terrorists in Borno Ambush”

September 5, 2025
"US Warns Citizens in Nigeria Against Travel to Military Facilities, Defends Visa Revocations

“US Warns Citizens in Nigeria Against Travel to Military Facilities, Defends Visa Revocations

September 5, 2025
A Final Farewell to a Fashion Titan: Giorgio Armani (1934–2025)

A Final Farewell to a Fashion Titan: Giorgio Armani (1934–2025)

September 4, 2025
EDO PDP: THE LAST KICK OF A DYING HORSE – By Fred Itua

Every Move of Gov Okpebholo and his Deputy is For the Benefit of Edo People- Ohonbamu

September 4, 2025
Edo Anti-Cultism War Records More Successes, Nine Suspected Cultists Arrested

Edo Anti-Cultism War Records More Successes, Nine Suspected Cultists Arrested

September 4, 2025
Edo Anti-Cultism Drive Records Fresh Gains: Nine Suspects Arrested, Firearms Seized

Edo Anti-Cultism Drive Records Fresh Gains: Nine Suspects Arrested, Firearms Seized

September 4, 2025
Retail
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Login/Register
Advertise
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Music
  • Magazine
  • Contact us
No Result
View All Result
Obaland Magazine
No Result
View All Result
Home news

Racial Discrimination: FCDO Guilty! Tribunal Rules in Favourof Sonia Warner

Ann Chime by Ann Chime
November 18, 2022
in news, Non profit
0
Racial Discrimination: FCDO Guilty! Tribunal Rules in Favourof  Sonia Warner

Abuja, Nigeria…An all-white tribunal in London has ruled that the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are formerly known as British Department for International Development (DFID) in Nigeria racially discriminated against a black senior civil servant, Ms. Sonia Warner after launching an inquiry into her sex life.

Sonia Warner, a British civil servant for 33 years who oversaw government grants given to Nigerian organizations under the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) program of the FCDO, was the victim of unconscious discrimination when she was “pushed away”, “disowned”  by colleagues, the employment tribunal concluded.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

Missing BBNaija Twins’ Brother Found in Lagos

“US Warns Citizens in Nigeria Against Travel to Military Facilities, Defends Visa Revocations

The ruling follows a six-month departmental inquiry that was launched into Warner while she worked in Nigeria as the Senior Responsible Officer of the ACORN program. She was accused of forming an intimate relationship with an employee of an organization receiving UK government cash – a claim she denied and the tribunal has proven to be false.

The ruling follows media reports last year that found that many black, Asian, and minority ethnic men working in development for the government claim to have experienced prejudice at work, including racist jokes and doubts about their legality as UK citizens.

The tribunal in its ruling concluded that Warner had been the victim of unconscious bias by senior colleagues assessing and conducting claims against her.

It said: “We have found that the claimant [Warner] was treated with an unwarranted degree of suspicion, that unfair assumption was made about her, that minds were closed, that she was treated unfairly in the disciplinary process, which took an unreasonably long time.

“The explanations that we received from the respondent [FCDO] for this treatment were not just poor or unreasonable excuses. They simply did not adequately explain the degree of unfairness and unreasonableness in the treatment and we infer that the missing part of the explanation is the claimant’s race.

“The claimant was ‘pushed away’, ‘disowned’ during the disciplinary process in a way that we consider would not have happened were she a white civil servant with the equivalent length of service and experience,” the tribunal said.

Warner, who had worked across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, moved to Nigeria in 2017 as a senior governance adviser, leading on anti-corruption. Her job was to help Nigeria tackle endemic corruption by providing grants to both government and civil society organizations.

Post Views: 1,135
Share

Related Posts

Missing BBNaija Twins' Brother Found in Lagos
news

Missing BBNaija Twins’ Brother Found in Lagos

September 5, 2025
"US Warns Citizens in Nigeria Against Travel to Military Facilities, Defends Visa Revocations
news

“US Warns Citizens in Nigeria Against Travel to Military Facilities, Defends Visa Revocations

September 5, 2025
Empowering Edo: Ivie Idahosa’s Strategic Leadership at Edo‑CSDA
news

Empowering Edo: Ivie Idahosa’s Strategic Leadership at Edo‑CSDA

September 3, 2025
UNICEF Urges Journalists to Uphold Ethics in Reporting on Traumatized Children
news

UNICEF Urges Journalists to Uphold Ethics in Reporting on Traumatized Children

September 2, 2025
Pregnant Woman Killed in Stray Bullet Incident During Chase of Suspected "Yahoo Boys" in Delta
news

Pregnant Woman Killed in Stray Bullet Incident During Chase of Suspected “Yahoo Boys” in Delta

September 1, 2025
NAFDAC Warns Public About Falsified Oxytocin Injection
news

NAFDAC Warns Public About Falsified Oxytocin Injection

September 1, 2025

Search

No Result
View All Result

Recent Posts

  • Chris Emovon Remembered: Tributes Pour In from ‎Hon. Chief Dr. Billy Famous Adesuwa Osawaru, Classmates, Associates, and Olu of Aponmu September 5, 2025
  • Dangote Denies Ownership of Truck in Enugu Fatal Crash September 5, 2025
  • PDP GOOFS AGAIN: Edo Govt Slams Opposition’s False Claims September 5, 2025
  • GTT Ramps Up Hiring Drive to Tackle Driver Shortage in Turin’s Public Transport September 5, 2025
  • Missing BBNaija Twins’ Brother Found in Lagos September 5, 2025
  • Education Budget Shortfall Threatens Quality of Education in Nigeria September 5, 2025
  • “Troops Kill 13 Boko Haram Terrorists in Borno Ambush” September 5, 2025
  • “US Warns Citizens in Nigeria Against Travel to Military Facilities, Defends Visa Revocations September 5, 2025
  • A Final Farewell to a Fashion Titan: Giorgio Armani (1934–2025) September 4, 2025
  • Every Move of Gov Okpebholo and his Deputy is For the Benefit of Edo People- Ohonbamu September 4, 2025

Categories

  • culture (3)
  • Education (1)
  • Electrical (14)
  • Entertainment (395)
  • fashion (13)
  • Feature (29)
  • Gist (25)
  • Gossip (34)
  • Government (355)
  • health (82)
  • history (11)
  • International (25)
  • INTERVIEW (9)
  • music (38)
  • Nature (3)
  • news (1,559)
  • News (2,737)
  • Non profit (16)
  • PHOTO (4)
  • Political (289)
  • press release (26)
  • Property (13)
  • review (18)
  • Science (8)
  • Sport (41)
  • Sports (297)
  • TECHNOLOGY (12)
  • Video (4)
  • world (96)

OUR SERVICE

OUR SERVICES

obaland podcast radio

  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact Us

All right reserved© 2023 Obaland magazine

No Result
View All Result
  • About
  • Books
  • Checkout
  • Contact us
  • Home
  • Login
  • Magazine
  • Member Directory
  • My Profile
  • Order Confirmation
  • Password Reset
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Register
  • Reset Password
  • Sign Up

All right reserved© 2023 Obaland magazine

1
WhatsApp
Hello 👋
Can we help you?
Open chat