Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Check out this mind-blowing designs from a 200lvl Lautech student

Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari and her granddaughter are pictured at Eid prayer ground in Daura, Katsina State. See more photos after the cut...

The Murtala Mohammed International Airport has been without light since about 3/4pm today. International passengers, including passengers from Emirates and Turkish airlines, have been unable to pass through immigration because of lack of power. The generator, the airport authority claims, has packed up. How can our generator not have back up? So now people are in perpetual darkness as they wait for the airport authority to do something. Sad!

President Robert Mugabe unveiled the statue at his official residence in Harare last Friday and Zimbabweans were not impressed.
The statue, made by a famous Zimbabwean sculptor was widely criticized on social media, with people questioning the sculptor's motives. Some even suggested it was a reaction to being forced to make the status while many attacked the sculptor accusing him of a poor job.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Governor of Lagos state Akinwunmi Ambode and his wife Bolanle, and other APC chieftains in Lagos state paid a visit to the APC Leader, Bola Tinubu, to mark the Sallah celebration. More photos after the cut...


Troops of 21 Brigade Bama, under 7 Division area of operational responsibility, in the early hours of Friday, March 3, cleared escaping Boko Haram terrorists that came through Sabsawa axis of Sambisa forest.
According to a statement issued by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the troops also recovered a Toyota Hilux, 2 AK-47 rifles with registration numbers 58006915 and KO 35839, as well as 37 rounds of 12.7mm metal linked ammunition.
One officer sustained injury during the encounter but he is in a stable condition.


A U.S judge yesterday ruled that the autopsy report for late Bobbi Kristina Brown must be unsealed after a request by a news agency, WXIA, who wanted the records for a report on the heroin epidemic in Bobbi Kristina's upscale Atlanta neighborhood.. and now, the cause of death has been revealed...


There was major traffic gridlock around Ogere, on the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Friday March 4. Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, who was traveling on the road at that time, got down from his car to control the traffic. Meanwhile, while the Governor was controlling traffic, King Sunny Ade, who was passing by stopped to thank him. More photos after the cut...


Justice C.M.A Olatoregun of the Federal High Court, Lagos on Friday, March 4, 2016, convicted Ngqula Nosisi Pam, a South African for money laundering and bulk cash smuggling. The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on February 1, 2016 after her arrest at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.


At the Fox News republican presidential debate yesterday, Donald Trump suggested he has a big eggplant after another presidential candidate Marco Rubio insinuated he is a small man below the belt, and that he deserved to be attacked personally because of how much he attacks others.


Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has lashed out at Donald Trump and pleaded for fellow Republicans to shun the Republican Party front-runner for the good of country and party.


A British-born Nigerian was removed from an Easyjet flight at Luton airport after a fellow passenger read a message that mentions 'prayer' on his mobile phone and alerted cabin crew, who raised alarm with the police.


Two female militants armed with grenade and weapons attacked a Turkish police bus as it arrived at a station in an Istanbul suburb on Thursday.

The footage of the dramatic attack shows one of the women throw a grenade and the other opened fire with a machine gun as the riot police bus drove towards the station entrance in he Bayrampasa district of Turkey’s biggest city.


Wife of the Vice President of Nigeria, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, also met with the wife of the President of Turkey, Emine Erdogan, who accompanied her husband, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a state visit to Nigeria. Another photo after the cut...


Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now the 6th richest man in the world, moving up 10 spots from last years Forbes' 2016 billionaires list of the world's richest people. According to Forbes, Mark made more than $11billion in one year, going from $33.4 billion in the 2015 ranking to $44.6 billion in the 2016 ranking. Bill Gates is still the richest man in the world. See top 20 after the cut...


18 people were publicly caned today Tuesday, March 1 for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia's Aceh province. Among them was a young unmarried couple who were caught spending time alone together. The punishment was meted out by a hooded man with a rattan cane on a stage next to the mosque in Banda Aceh, before a large, enthusiastic cheering crowd.


A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former president Goodluck Jonathan and late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government to account for all the loots they recovered during their administrations,Vanguard reports.


The appropriate Govt Agency should clear this off the Road before any accident occurs.
Photo Credit: @_Thalia_M


Three female students of Babington Macaulay ‎Junior Seminary School, a private boarding school in Ikorodu, Lagos, were kidnapped by gunmen at their hostel at about 8pm yesterday night. The Lagos state Police command say they are working towards getting the girls freed from their abductors. No reason has been given for the kidnap.


In a bid to address the lingering fuel scarcity that has surfaced in some parts of the country in the last few days, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, says it has increased its fuel supply to both Lagos and Abuja by an additional 50 trucks. The corporation says the queues will disappear soon. See more tweets after the cut..