Monday, 5 June 2017

Capital falls eerily quiet for a poignant minute's silence as hundreds attend vigil for victims of the London Bridge terror attack



Sadiq Khan has led a vigil of hundreds of Londoners (pictured inset) in remembering those who died following Saturday night's terror attack in the capital. The Mayor of London was joined by senior officers from the Metropolitan Police, as well as paramedics and fire crews, for an emotional service

Sunday, 29 January 2017

Judge Blocks Parts of President Trump’s Refugee Order


President Donald Trump

A Federal Judge in New York on Saturday night granted a stay order onPresident Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily restricting entry to the U.S. by citizens from seven countries.

The order followed a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)challenging an earlier executive order issued by President Donald Trump barring certain citizens from seven countries from

Fire Outbreak Rocks NNPC Depot in Suleja, Niger State


File Photo: Petrol Tanker on Fire

The Niger State Fire Service has confirmed an early morning fire outbreak at theNigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) depot in Suleja.

Mohammad Kwale, the officer in charge of the service in Suleja, told the NAN on Sunday that the outbreak affected the loading section in the depot.

Lagos: Man kills sex worker for not satisfying him after paying N500


LAGOS-Commercial sex workers at De Love Hotel on Ilufumi Street in Ejigbo area of Lagos have fled, following the killing of their colleague by a customer, who accused her of not satisfying him for the N500 service he paid for.

Vanguard gathered that a customer had singled out one of the commercial sex workers, Janet Etim,

KSA gets car, cash gifts from American fan


King Sunny Ade

NIGERIAN music legend, King Sunny Ade, KSA, received a brand new Mercedes GLK 450 and N10million from US-based fan in appreciation of his outstanding contributions towards the development of African music.
The fan, a US-based auto merchant, Adekunle Adeya Falade, was pictured with the legend as he

Monday, 27 July 2015

Inside Chernobyl's no-go zone: Haunting photos from town abandoned after radiation disaster 30 years ago reveal desolate hospitals, rotting homes and discarded possessions


Nearly 30 years ago, the world's worst nuclear disaster struck the then-thriving town of Pripyat in Ukraine. The day after, 50,000 residents were evacuated from their homes, never to return. Austrian photograph Roland Verant, 35, has ventured into the no-go zone to capture a series of astonishing

I Maintain Soyinka Is More Of A Hunter Than A Political Critic- Obasanjo


Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has repeated once again that Professor Wole Soyinka is more of a successful aparo (guinea fowl) hunter than a political critic. He repeated it on a programme tagged ‘Book Club’ on Channels. It will be recalled that in his book, My Watch, the former president had