Chairman of Yudala, an online and offline retail chain, Sam Ojo, has said his company is expected to create thousands of jobs for Nigerian youths and also make many of them millionaires. Ojo, in an online chat with newsmen from his base in the US, said Yudala is an organisation that is poised to take…
The government of Saudi Arabia has directed a thorough investigation into stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which left more than 700 people dead near Mecca. Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohamed bin Nayef, who chairs the Saudi Hajj committee, during a meeting on Thursday, ordered a probe into the stampede and its reports submitted to…
Pope Francis has expressed his “sentiments of closeness in the face of the tragedy” that claimed the lives of over 700 pilgrimages who died in a stampede outside the Islamic holy city of Mecca a while ago. The Catholic priest, who is in the US on working visit, while speaking during an evening prayer service…
**Mourns HID Awolowo Former presidential candidate, Chris Okotie, has commiserated with the family of late H.I.D Awolowo, passed on last Saturday at the age of 99 at her residence in Ikenne, Ogun State. Okotie, a reputable man of God in Nigeria, in a press statement issued from his media office in Lagos, described the death…
On Thursday, embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki, got a treatment he may never have imagined to get in his hometown in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, where he was once governed for eight years. Saraki was in Ilorin for the Sallah celebration, but when he went to the Muslim prayer ground in the morning…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primary election in Bayelsa State held on Tuesday has been cancelled. This was made known on Wednesday by National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. Oyegun explained that the party’s primary for December 5, 2015 governorship election in Bayelsa…
Two children from the same parents were burnt alive in a petrol station fire incident that occurred on Wednesday in Osogbo, Osun State. It was said that the fire, which happened at Bovas Petrol Station, located in front of Osogbo Grammar School, was caused by a refrigerator. The victims’ mother was also said to have…
Security operatives in Lagos have apprehended a suspected member of the Boko Haram sect. The suspect, identified as Abdullahi Adamu, was nabbed by men attached to Operation Mesa (OP Mesa) in Ijora area of the state after a tip-off by residents of the area. It was said that the security personnel, comprising soldiers and the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, to safely rescue the abducted former Secretary to the Federal Government, Olu Falae. Buhari made this order after he was briefed on the kidnap of the Afenifere leader at his home in Akure, Ondo State on Monday. Falae was said to have been kidnapped…
Nigerian troops fighting insurgents in northeast of the country have rescued more women and children held by the Boko Haram group, the Nigerian Army has disclosed. A statement issued by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, also disclosed that 43 Boko Haram suspects, including one of the group’s kingpins in the…