Almost 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims took part Sunday in the “stoning of the devil”, the last major ritual of the annual hajj pilgrimage and one that has in past years led to deadly stampedes.

Hundreds of people joined a family ‘Guard the Children’ march in Hong Kong calling for a stable future for the future generations of the city.

The Imo state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, on Sunday, said that the United Nations Agency for International Development, USAID, was in the state, to assess the extent his government was supplying water to the citizens.

Since the dawn of the first day of Eid al-Adha, masses of Hajj pilgrims began the ritual of throwing pebbles at Mina holy site by throwing seven consecutive pebbles at a special stone monument called “Jamrat Al-Aqabah”.

BENIN – FORMER National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has described the strained relationship between Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki and his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole as “a disagreement between two friends”.

There are to be 20,000 more police officers on the streets of Britain under new plans announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “come down hard on crime”.

 President Alpha Conde of Guinea has joined his counterpart of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari to observe Eid-el-Kabir prayer in Daura, Katsina State.

ABUJA: The National Think Tank Committee NTTC of the Action Alliance AA has ratified the suspension of the party’s National Chairman, Chief Kenneth Udeze and the National Secretary, Vernimbe James who were earlier suspended on June 14, 201 for anti-party activities and sundry violations of the party constitution.

ABUJA- THE embattled human rights organization, Amnesty International, AI, at the weekend, reminded President Muhammadu Buhari, and others of protecting their human rights from being abused when they were victimized and oppressed some years ago under military regime

About 100 people were arrested during an immigration protest in New York on Saturday, police said.