Alhamdulilah. The wuquf Arafah is about to commence in the holy land.  More than 4million Muslims will gather on Mount Arafah tomorrow in observance of the core hajj rites.  As at now, about 85 per cent of the hujjaj is now in Muna, about thirteen kilometres from Arafah.  Enduring the inconveniences associated with the assemblage.  It is a recommended sunnah to stay in Muna a day before in preparation for the Arafah in order not to miss the all-important activities of the rites. It is a tented city, that should not take more than 500 people, yet for the rites, over 4million will have to gather there for the three days. The prophet himself delineated the area and even if the number of hujjaj becomes double of what we have today, the same Mina area as defined by the Prophet will still be used. As many as the places of conveniences are, the hujjaj would still have to stand in a long queue for their turn to ease up themselves. Ditto with Arafah and Muzdalifa.

In the aftermath of the two mass-shootings in  El Paso and Dayton in the United States of America, Amnesty International, AI, has issued a travel advisory, warning nationals of other countries against travelling to the world’s most powerful country.

Aba (Abia) – Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Thursday said that the armed security personnel, who allegedly shot and killed a commercial motorcyclist in a community near Aba, had been arrested. The deceased, Mr Chimaobi Uzoukwa, was reportedly killed for allegedly refusing to part with N100 bribe at Ohanze military checkpoint. It was alleged […]

More than two million Muslims began the annual hajj Friday under sweltering conditions, as the Saudi hosts sought to deter politicisation of the pilgrimage against a backdrop of simmering Gulf tensions.

Pop singer, Tekno made the headlines during the week after he was granted bail following a viral video showing him in a transparent truck dancing seductively with scantily dressed women along the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. Lagos. 

President Muhammadu Buhari, former Presidents Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) have advocated concerted action against the spread of cancer in the country.

A CIVIL Society Organisation, Concerned Nigerians, CN, Wednesday, told the Department of State Security, DSS, to leave the detained Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the 2019 presidential election, Omoyele Sowore, alone and go after terrorists.

Tolaram Group has made its entrance into the fruit drink market with the launch of “GoodLife Magik” fruit drink

AN agricultural programme under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme Phase 1, ATASP-1, has achieved 209, 464 metric tonnes of food worth N36.2 billion in four years to the economy.

Celebrity photographer and wife of pop singer, Timi Dakolo, Busola has reiterated her resolve to fight to the finish following the rape allegation she levelled against Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo.

INDEGENES of Anambra State resident in Malaysia have expressed worry over the number of girls from the South-East geo-political zone being used in sex trafficking business in that country.

THE Chairman, Board of Amnesty International, Nigeria, Auwal Ibrahim Musa, popularly known as (Rafsanjani), Thursday, dared protesters harassing staff of the organisation as they cannot stop them from exposing human rights violations, perpetrating violence and corrupt practices.

Akwa Ibom and Cross River State governments have decried the slow pace of work on the demarcation of its boundaries by federal authorities, stressing that the development has further heightened state of insecurity in the area.

Mrs Gbemisola Rufai, who recently retired from Lagos State civil service as Director, has said a lot changed in the civil service, noting, however, that the service is still very relevant to governance, especially with the processes and channels of reaching the populace.

Ado-Ekiti—A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, sentenced two persons to death by hanging for robbery and illegal possession of firearms.