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No fewer than 400 pilgrims heading to Saudi Arabia escaped death on Saturday morning when the tyres of their aircraft burst while taxiing for takeoff. BBC Hausa Service reports that the aircraft belonging to Kabo Air was taking the pilgrims from Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano to Saudi Arabia when ...

Late Olusegun Agagu‘s burial took place yesterday despite thetragic air crash that occurred. Top Ondo government officials, former governors, and prominent businessmen attended the burial.

This is really a sad news. That’s Lucciano and his mom (in the pic above) two weeks ago in London at his wedding reception. She died yesterday at Ilorin teaching hospital after a brief illness. Kevin has also announced her death via his Facbook page. This is really sad. May ...

Yaounde, Cameroon (CNN) — Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has ordered the closure of nearly 100 Christian churches in key cities, citing criminal practices organized by Pentecostal pastors that threaten the security of the West African nation. But Pentecostal pastors said the move is evidence of Biya’s insecurity about the churches’ ...

A high-flying lawyer fled in terror nakèd after his�girlfriend�used her 38DDs in an attempt to kill him, a German court has heard. Tim�Schmidt, 30, said his�girlfriend, Franziska Hansen, 33, mounted her assault while they were having sèx because she was jealous of his successful career. She denies the charge of ...

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) yesterday suspended Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State after accusing him of being involved in anti-party activities. The party voted to remove Okorocha at an emergency National Executive Council meeting which held in Abuja yesterday afternoon following Okorocha’s recent dissolution of his cabinet and ...

According to her, she read it in The Nations newspaper that her marriage was over. Here is a text message she sent to them. I read in the newspaper yesterday that I am divorced. What proof do you have? And I am taking this to court because my marriage is ...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state Wednesday dissolved his over 70-man expanded executive council. The dissolution which left most of the officials speechless was announced to the cabinet members during the weekly state executive meeting. Affected in the dissolution are all Commissioners, Political Advisers, Senior Special Assistants and all Special ...

T.B Joshua explains why Al-Mustapha visited him immediately after his release from prison: I got to know him many years ago when a petition was addressed to General Bamaiyi who was the then Chairman of the NDLEA. As you know, several efforts had been made by my detractors to bring ...

The Court of Appeal in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Hamza Al-Mustapha from the murder of Kudirat Abiola. The judgment overturns that of the Lagos High Court which sentenced him to death by hanging. The presiding judge accused the lower court of being �stroked to secure a conviction by all ...

[youtube zM9P9nxNMA8 300 200] The political mayhem in Rivers State took another dimension today Tuesday July 9 as the speaker of the state House of Assembly was impeached in a blood-related saga. The house symbol of Authority, ‘Mace’ was broken, computer sets used by members of the Assembly were destroyed. ...

Billionaire businessman and Globalcom owner, Chief Mike Adenuga reportedly paid a whopping sum of 200million naira to secure a space for his burial spot in a cemetery. The cemetery is at the Vaults and Garden, an ultra modern cemetery in Ikoyi, Lagos, situated beside Federal Radio Corporation Of Nigeria. The ...

Culled from�Punch The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old man, Babajide Bashorun, for allegedly kidnapping a female undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Akoka, and raping her. The police said Bashorun, a dog breeder, did not only rape his victim, he also took snapshot of her nudity, which ...

Foremost Dallas based entertainment outfit and publishers of urban music journal African Muzik Magazine, Big A Entertainment on 1st June, drew the creme de la creme of Nigeria’s entertainment industry to the upscale Club Rumors in Ikeja for the Lagos launch of the revolutionary magazine. Africa’s Pop legend 2face Idibia ...

� The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four boys for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in the Mile 12 area of the state. The suspects, Wale Badejo, Jubril Yusuf, Olusanya Remi and Wale Oluwafemi, who are between the ages 18 and 19, allegedly abducted the victim on her way ...

Born 22nd July 1926, Rolling Dollar was known for his verve and dexterity on the guitar. His zest for life and energy, even in old age, was also a marvel to all who beheld him perform. He got a new lease of life after years in the doldrums, through Asiwaju ...

Benue State Ministry of Finance has, on Thursday, refused to pay the N25,000 which the state government normally pays outgoing corps members who served in organisations owned/run by the state. The 2012 batch ‘B’ corps members who passed out on Thursday were shocked, on getting to the finance office, to ...

Speed kills, the accident on Eric Moore road in Surulere, between a Taxi and A Toyota Avalon. It was reported that the avalon sped past the taxi, hit him and the taxi lost control while the Avalon hit a culvet and tumbled facing the other direction. No serious casualties, as ...

A 24 years old Nigerian, Uwa Osamede Imafidon, just graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in the US with Masters degree in Microbiology and made a 4.0 CGPA out of the maximum 4.0 CGPA. She bagged a First Class Degree in Crop Science from University of Benin, ...

[youtube ogEbrEc_5OA 300 200] A real mermaid was seen in Kiryat Yam, Israel, by two tourists who where filming what they thought was a seal on rocks in Israel. They zoom in and what they saw was scary, it was a mermaid, She turns, saw the guys filming her and ...