‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius charged with girlfriend’s murder
South African police Thursday charged Olympic amputee sprint star Oscar Pistorius with the Valentine's Day murder of his model girlfriend, who was shot four times with a gun registered to the popular athlete.
Police played down reports suggesting the 30-year-old blonde model, Reeva Steenkamp, was mistaken for a burglar, and said she had died after suffering wounds to the head and hand in the shooting in the early hours of Thursday.
Reps in moves to ban use of foreign currencies in domestic market
MEMBERS of the House of Representatives Thursday moved to ban the use of foreign currencies in local and domestic transactions in Nigeria.
Kwankwaso, Dangote donate N6m each to slain Kano health workers’ families
By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO – Kano state government and Aliko Dangote Wednesday donated N6million each to the families of slain health workers last Friday in Kano. The breakdown showed that each family that lost a loved one got a million naira, while four of those who survived with gunshot wounds were given half a million […]
Nigeria’s Kanayo Nwanze wins new UN mandate
Nigeria’s Kanayo Nwanze was re-appointed on Wednesday to a four-year term as president of the UN’s Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the organisation said.
2014 World Cup: Jonathan sets target for Eagles
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday charged the Super Eagles to not only ensure that Nigeria qualifies for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil but to play in the final of the competition.
RESEARCH & DEVT: Four Nigerian students generate electricity from urine
Nothing is really a waste in the real sense of the word. Almost anything one can think of is reusable. Everything has some value one way or the other. This was what four teenage secondary school girls in Lagos set out to prove.
