Efforts to search for the flight data recorders from the crashed AirAsia passenger plane has resumed, as weather conditions improve over the Java Sea. The plane, which was flying from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore on December 28, disappeared from the radar. Rescue teams have so far recovered 37 bodies but said the remains of most…
Nigerian Navy Holds Reception for NNS Okpabana
The Nigerian Navy has received one of the latest war ships recently acquired from the United States of America, named, NNS OKPABANA. A reception for the ship was held at the Naval Dockyard jetty, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos on Friday January 2, 2015. Speaking at the event, Jeffrey Hawkins, the U.S. Consul General,…
Douglas, Beverly Hillbillies Star Dies At 81
Donna Douglas, the actress who played the buxom tomboy Elly May Clampett on the hit 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. She died, aged 81 after suffering pancreatic cancer, on New Year’s Day at Baton Rouge General Hospital, near her home in Zachary, La. The Beverly Hillbillies, was a comedy about a backwoods Ozark…
Eid-Maulud: IGP Asks Muslims To Emulate Prophet Mohammed
As Muslims in Nigeria join their counterparts across the globe to celebrate Eid Maulud, the birth of Prophet Muhammed on January 2, Suleiman Abba, Inspector-General of Police, IGP has extended his greetings to the Muslim faithfuls. In his message to the Muslims, Abba admonished them to be kind and accommodating to their neighbours. Reiterating his…
President Jonathan Speaks at New Year
New Year Broadcast to the Nation by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Jjanuary 1, 2015 Dear Great People of our nation, 1. I greet and felicitate with you all as we enter the New Year today. As we mark the beginning of this New Year, 2015, a new nation…
We Can Look Forward With Renewed Hope in 2015 – Buhari
Mohammed Buhari, Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has expressed optimism that in 2015 Nigerians “can look forward with renewed hope and the knowledge that things can and will change.” Expressing faith that the New Year will expand the frontiers of innovation and creativity in the Nigerian youths, Buhari stated that the country…
T.B. Joshua Hosts Memorial Service For Victims Of Building Collapse
Temitope Joshua, Founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN has set aside the evening of December 31 for Candlelight memorial service for the victims of the September 12 six-storey building collapse belonging to the church. Over 44 relations of some of the 116 dead victims from South Africa who had been hosted by…
Two-year- old boy kills Mother in US
A two-year-old boy has accidentally shot his mother with a gun he found when reaching into her handbag in the US state of Idaho. The woman, named by the local sheriff’s office as Veronica Rutledge, 29, was shot in a Wal-Mart store in Hayden, a town in Idaho’s northern panhandle. The store closed after the…
Lohan Down With Chikungunya Virus
Lindsay Lohan, a popular actress has been diagnosed with the Chikungunya virus during her French Polynesian holiday. Chikungunya is rarely fatal, but causes fever and severe joint pains with no medical cure. The 28-year-old Lohan revealed she contracted the disease Saturday on Twitter, and pleaded with her followers to use bug spray. She later posted…
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