GUS: Peter, Ema and Mary sent packing
As Gulder Ultimate Search 10 gets underway, the hammer of eviction has fallen on three of the 12 contenders. Mary Adeboye, one of Gulder Ultimate Search 10’s identical twins was evicted in the Octave Puzzle challenge. She was a member of the Swords tribe.
Thieves steal sacred Virgin’s crown in Bolivia
The Virgin of our Lady of Copacabana, known as the mother of the nation in Bolivia, has lost her golden crown — the latest religious icon to be stripped by thieves.
Shell lifts force majeure on Nigerian oil exports
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell on Friday lifted a force majeure on crude oil exports from Nigeria after repairing a supply pipeline that has been repeatedly sabotaged in the country’s oil region.
Nigeria to work for preventive diplomacy at UN Security Council
The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. Viola Onwuliri has assured the international community that Nigeria would continue to work in the area of preventive diplomacy as it takes a seat in the UN Security Council in 2014.
15 women arrested for alleged prostitution during Eid festivities
The Kano Hisbah Board said on Friday that it arrested 15 young women for alleged prostitution during the Eid-el-Kabir festivities in Sabon Gari area of Kano, the state capital.
Through the eye of the needle
It doesn’t matter how wide a gate is, the people in charge more often than not, make it narrow; intentionally. I’ve never understood the logic behind it. You have two thoroughfares, clearly marked IN and OUT to aid the easy flow of traffic and to some extent improve the security situation but no, the current Nigerian way is to slow things down…complicate things… .
