Award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur, Odera Ozoka, is currently touring some cities in the United States of America, where he’s selling the new Nigerian dream to prominent countrymen in the Diaspora.

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON has reiterated its call for internationally professionalised Hajj and Umrah managment. The Chairman/CEO of the Commission, Alhaji Zhikrullah Hassan gave the call today at the on-going International Hajj Conference and Indonesian Shariah Economic Festival (ISEF) 2020. The conference seeks to discuss best practices, identify challenges and highlight opportunities in […]

A Brussels district has suspended a teacher who showed a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed while discussing the murder of a French teacher who had used the same image, its spokesman said Friday. The Belgian teacher, who works in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, showed one of the cartoons previously published by French magazine Charlie […]

The Federal Government has vowed to fix brain drain in the medical sector by making emigration unattractive for doctors.

Liberian President George Weah on Friday inaugurated a new national carrier for the West African country, named Lone Star Air, about 30 years after the country’s previous airline went bust. Speaking at a ceremony at Liberia’s international airport, near the capital Monrovia, Weah said the new airline would “connect our country to our region and […]

A granite-laden truck that reportedly crashed into a Mazda bus on Friday on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway has left three people dead, with one injured.

The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mr Mohammed Adamu, on Friday, said 205 critical national security assets, corporate facilities and private property were burnt or vandalized during the EndSARS protest in the country.

Prophet Muhammad, the last prophet and founder of Islam, was born in 570 CE (Common Era) and believed to have died on June 8, 632 AD (after Jesus’s birth). The above dates are according to the Julian and Gregorian calendars followed in those times. It is widely believed that Allah had revealed the verses of the […]

…French President needs mental treatment— Erdogan Shortly after the French President supported the making of depictive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), there have been calls from various countries to boycott French goods. At the moment, the social media is awash with #Boycott_French_Goods, trending on Twitter in all major Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, […]

Gwafan village in Jos North Local Government Area, which hosts the residence of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has been thrown into mourning following last Sunday’s looting at the home of the former Speaker, as security agents drafted to stop the act allegedly killed some residents and dumped their bodies in the surrounding dams.

Youths attempt setting accidented truck ablaze By Bose Adelaja A granite-laden truck which reportedly crashed into a Mazda bus Friday, on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway has left three people dead while another was seriously injured. Youths in the area also prevented law enforcement agents from towing the accidented truck insisting it must be set ablaze. The incident […]

Nasrul-lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) has announced the immediate establishment of a N10million victims restitution relief fund to provide succour to those injured and whose businesses and properties were vandalised during the violence that greeted the #EndSARS Protest across the country. The society also said it would set up a Fellowship program for traditional and social media […]

Following the call by President Muhammadu Buhari that all those involved in the looting of Covid-19 palliatives across the country be brought to book, ex-British and Commonwealth Boxing champion, Peter Oboh has called on Buhari to temper justice with mercy.

By Onozure Dania, Lagos The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of Special Ant- Robbery Squad (SARS) related abuses and other matters, yesterday visited Ikoyi Military Hospital mortuary, controlled by 65, battalion, to inspect it following an intelligence tip off that the military hospitals mortuary could help the panel in the […]

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has approved three additional biosphere reserves in Nigeria. Dr Moma Enang, National Professional Officer, Natural Science Sector, UNESCO Regional Office, Abuja said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday. Enang named the reserves as Oban Biosphere Reserve and Okwango Biosphere Reserves, both […]