A leak of information from a top-secret meeting of the National Security Council about Chinese tech giant Huawei “did not contain information that would breach the Official Secrets Act” and “did not amount to a criminal offence”, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu of the Metropolitan Police said. In a statement, AssistantContinue Reading
Panicked residents in Surrey have been woken up by buildings “violently shaking” after an earthquake struck near Gatwick Airport. Loud bangs and rumbles were reported in Crawley, Leigh, and Horley shortly after 1am today. Dozens of locals have taken to social media to say that they felt their “whole houseContinue Reading
Suddenly, we are turning to a rudderless society where elders are afraid to stand up and be counted. Their fear is that the younger generation worships money more than wisdom. All well meaning Nigerians should begin to imbibe the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. I want to begin with RiversContinue Reading
A young hairdresser identified as Kenile Nwabuzor has reportedly committed suicide over a disagreement with her boyfriend. The resident of Fadausi Street, Ijeshatedo, Lagos State took her own life on Thursday, April 11 after the man identified as David reportedly told her he was no longer interested in the relationship.Continue Reading
Twenty-one people have been taken to hospital after a plane skidded off a runway and into a river. The Boeing 737 jet had been flying from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, a military airport eight miles south of the Florida city. A spokesman for theContinue Reading
The Nigerian Army has reorganised the operations of Exercise Harbin Kunama III to make it more effective in curtailing the activities of fleeing bandits, kidnappers and cattle-rustlers in the Northwest. Addressing newsmen at the Army Headquarters on Friday in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, saidContinue Reading
Tension heightened as Gen. Yakubu Gowon, former Nigerian Head of State, slumped midway during the oration at the graveside of late Maj Gen David Akpodiete Ejoor, in Ovwor-Olomu Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. This is coming just as military personnel made efforts to bar visual coverageContinue Reading
Bandits terrorising the North-west of the country were at the height of their criminal enterprise on Wednesday night, attacking Government Girls Secondary School, Moriki in Zuru Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State, where they kidnapped six persons, including students and teachers. BBC Hausa Service quoted the resident of theContinue Reading
A drawing by late South African president Nelson Mandela of the door of his prison cell on Robben Island — where he was held for 18 years — sold on Thursday in New York for $112,575. “The Cell Door, Robben Island” — completed in 2002 by the Nobel peace laureateContinue Reading
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has been issued a seven-day ultimatum by irate Niger Delta youths to reopen the Niger Delta Development Commission office along Aba Road, in Port Harcourt. The youths drawn from the nine states of the oil rich region demanded that Governor Wike should reopen theContinue Reading
