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    HAJJ Stampede: 54 Nigerians Confirmed Dead

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has confirmed that 54 Nigerians died during last Thursday’s Hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia. This was disclosed by Alhaji Abdullahi Mukhtar, Chairman, NAHCON on Monday at a news conference in Makkah. Mukhtar stated that 61 […] More

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    Volkswagen Sets £4.7 billion aside for Emission Scandal

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Volkswagen, VW,a German car-making company, has set about £4.7 billion aside to fix 11 million vehicles in United States affected by its emission scandal. The automaker, which ousted Toyota to be the world’s top-selling auto brand in the first half of 2015, disclosed […] More

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    Saraki Appears in Court, to Return October 21

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Bukola Saraki, senate president, finally appeared at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT on Tuesday to answer to charges related to his asset declaration. The senate President was accompanied to the tribunal by some of his colleagues, including Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy senate […] More

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    EX-SGF, Chief Olu Falae Kidnapped

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow A former secretary to Government of the Federation and national chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Olu Falae, has been kidnapped.   The 77-year-old politician was reportedly kidnapped from his residence Akure residence on Tuesday. Falae served as secretary to the military government […] More

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    Multiple Explosion Rock Maiduguri

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Ajilari Railway Crossing and Bintu sugar suburb of Maiduguri, Borno State capital, were attacked by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers between 7:30pm – 8:00pm yesterday night. The incident left at least 50 people dead with over 90 others sustaining critical injuries. Reports […] More

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    Burkina Faso: Coup Plotters Free Former President Kafando

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Junta leaders in Burkina Faso have released interim President Michel Kafando who has been in detention since Wednesday. However, Prime Minister Isaac Zida who was also detained alongside Kafando remains under house arrest. Gen. Gilbert Diendere, leader of the military junta, announced […] More

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    Man’s Newest Ancestor – Homo Naledi

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Lee Berger, a national geographic explorer-in-residence and a professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a team of scientists, has unearthed the fossils, consisting of infants, children, adults and elderly individual- including full skeletal parts, from a site They […] More

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    Malcolm Turnbull To Become Australia’s Prime Minister

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow   Australia is to have a new prime minister after Malcolm Turnbull ousted PM Tony Abbot as leader of the Liberal Party. The former communications minister received 54 votes to defeated PM Abbot 44 votes at the leadership ballot held at a meeting […] More

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    Hundred Of Inmates Escapes As Taliban Attacks Prison In Afghan

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Taliban fighters stormed a main prison in central Afghan city of Ghazni, today, killing police officers and releasing many prisoners, police officials said.   Deputy provincial governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi told AFP news agency “Around 2:30am six Taliban insurgents wearing military uniforms attacked […] More

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    Poop for Food

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow   Imagine eating at a fanciful restaurant with plates and cups shaped like toilet bowls. Not a pleasant experience you would say! But this is not odd enough for two restaurants in Japan and South Korea, who in a move to be dynamic, […] More

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    Lagos NUJ Games commence on Monday

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Lagos Chapter of the Nigeria Union Of Journalists, NUJ annual Games will hold from Monday, September 7 to Saturday, September 12 at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos. The events would include Football competition, athletics, “Ayo”, Chess, Draughts, Marathon, Scrabble, Table Tennis and Tug […] More

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    EU Commission seeks solutions to Migration crisis

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The current migrant crisis rocking Europe has assumed another dimension, as Hungarian government has stopped migrants headed for Germany and other European countries from proceeding in their journey. Instead, the government camped them at Budapest’s Keleti train station, where they had purchased tickets […] More

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