An early morning inferno today razed a substantial part of Mamman Kontagora House, Broad Street, Lagos. The fire started early in the morning on the third floor of the imposing building housing the Federal Mortgage Bank and later spread to the other floors. An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said the fire started at the generator…
Cuba Applauds Removal from Terror List
Cuban officials and ordinary citizens alike have applauded the removal of the country from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying the move by President Barack Obama heals a decades-old insult to national pride and clears the way to swiftly restore diplomatic relations between the two countries. “The Cuban government recognizes the president…
Buhari To Restore Military Tie With US
General Muhammadu Buhari, president-elect, has promised that his administration will restore military cooperation with the United States of America. In an article published by the New York Times in its Tuesday edition, Buhari promised to, among other things, reform the military. The outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration had cancelled the training component of its military…
Police Rescue Three Kidnapped Children
The three missing Orekoya children ─ Aderomola, 11 months old; Adedamola, 4 and Demola, 6, that were kidnapped by Mary Akinloye who was employed as Nanny about three weeks ago at Surulere area of Lagos State have been found. Kennet Nwosu, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO who confirmed this to TELL said they…
Thugs Attack Osun Secretariat, Beat Journalists
Armed thugs suspected to have been hired by a faction of the Trade Union Congress in Osun State, on Tuesday in Osogbo, attacked journalists who were covering a protest staged by Osun State workers at the State secretariat. They reportedly beat up Oloyede Oyegbenle, a cameraman of Channels Television, before seizing his camera. The thugs…
Supreme Court Dismisses APC’s Case Against Fayose
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Tuesday, crossed yet another hurdle as the Supreme Court of Nigeria affirmed his victory as the duly elected governor of Ekiti in the June 21, 2014 governorship election. The apex court, in an unanimous decision by a seven-man panel led by John Fabiyi, a Supreme Court Justice, upheld…
Kenyan Rapists Bag 15-Year Jail Term
A court in Nairobi, Kenya capital has convicted three men yesterday for the brutal gang rape of a schoolgirl. Kimberly Brown one of the counsels to the victim said the sentencing will have a ripple effect across the nation, “and hopefully the region at large.” A worldwide outrage had earlier greeted the first punishment meted…
Ebola: Schools Reopen In Sierra Leone As Threat Declines
Schools have reopened across Sierra Leone nine months after they were shut down because of the Ebola outbreak. The government said it hopes that the studying time lost by the country’s 1.8 million children can still be made up for. The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says that the reopening of Sierra Leone’s schools marks…
Mimiko Warns Ondo REC Against Tampering with PDP’s victory
Olusegun Mimiko, Ondo State governor, has cautioned Segun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, against tampering with the results of Saturday’s state assembly poll in the Ilaje Local Government Area. The Governor said, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC had no power to withdraw a victory already granted, because the candidates of…
German Nobel Literature Winner Dies At 87
Guenter Grass, German Nobel literature prize winner and author of The Tin Drum, has died, aged 87. His publisher said he passed away at a clinic in the city of Luebeck. Born in what was then Danzig, Grass served in the German military during the World War Two and published his breakthrough anti-Nazi novel, The…
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