Amosun donates vehicles to labour unions
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has donated seven new vehicles, comprising six Toyota Hiace buses and a Toyota Corolla saloon car to six labour unions in the state. The beneficiaries include the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, whose chairman, Mr. Akeem Ambali got a Toyota Corolla car alongside the Toyota […]
Many feared trapped as Cargo train derails in Nairobi
A cargo train derailed in a sprawling Nairobi slum Sunday, crashing into makeshift homes where scores of people are feared trapped, the Kenyan Red Cross said.
Blast kills 7 including pupils in Syria’s Homs
A car bombing on Sunday in the central Syrian province of Homs killed seven people, five of them schoolchildren, the official SANA news agency reported.
3 Air Force men arrested over fracas at police station in Minna
The police in Niger said three men of the Nigeria Air Force had been arrested in connection with fracas at Tudun Wada Police Station in Minna.
Xmas: Women besiege Calabar beach market for Okirika clothing
The Calabar River Beach Market is now a beehive of activities as parents buy used clothes, popularly known as Okirika, from the river bank for their children for the Christmas.
Ikarama people abandon homes over oil spillage in Bayelsa
Some residents near Shell’s oil field in Ikarama, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa, said they abandoned their homes to avert possible health hazards from prolonged exposure to oil spill.
US, Nigerian envoys head to war-torn South Sudan
Envoys from the United States and from African powerhouse Nigeria will fly into Juba Sunday, part of intense diplomatic efforts to avert all-out civil war in South Sudan, an official said.
Military hunts Islamists after daring barracks attack
Nigeria’s military has surrounded a village in the northeast to flush out Islamist rebels who fled there after reportedly snatching soldiers’ wives and children during a daring attack on an army barracks nearby, witnesses told AFP Saturday.
Does God not care that we are suffering? (1)
Where is God in our adversities? If God is a good God, where is he in the storms of life? Why does God allow bad things to happen, even to his children? Habakkuk notes that everywhere there is oppression, murder, bribery, and injustice. He asks God what exactly he is doing about this.
Jan 1966 Coup: Ironsi detained me over Balewa’s, Okotie-Eboh’s decomposing bodies — Ex-police chief
Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Babankowa, in his late ‘70s, was a police commissioner. In this interview, Babankowa recounts how he led an operation during the January 1966 coup to discover the bodies of the Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, his Finance Minister, Chief Okotie Eboh, and other members of the federal cabinet who the coup makers had taken to the outskirts of Sango-Otta, then in Western Region but now in Ogun State, and shot dead. He also shares his thoughts on some national issues.
Expect total strike from Jan 6, doctors warn
AS the five-day warning strike called by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, ends today, Nigerians have been alerted to brace up for an indefinite doctors’ strike as from January 6, 2014, even as pharmacists, under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, are threatening to team up with the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, to embark on strike on December 28, 2013.
