Abia top UTME scorer to get N.5m scholarship in memory of late Ukpabi
Highest scorer in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam, UMTE, from Abia State, is to receive N500,000 scholarship, courtesy of the late Uche J. Ukpabi Legacy Foundation.
FG evacuates 1,030 stranded Nigerians from Libya in 2 days – Maihaja
The Federal Government on Monday said it evacuated 1,030 stranded Nigerian migrants from Libya between Jan. 7 and Jan 8, 2018.
In Libya 20 Nigerians sold for $730
Nigerian returnees from Libya have continued to recount the harrowing ordeal they experienced while in the country, including a day when 20 of them were sold for just $730.
Ethiopians, Russians set for their Christmas tomorrow
Christians in Nigeria may have forgotten Christmas festivities held on 25 December 2017, but in countries such as Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Russia, the gongs and cymbals of celebration are just being beaten. Adherents of the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church will be marking their Christmas tomorrow, simultaneously as it is observed by Orthodox Christians in Russia, […]
Trump marijuana policy reversal stokes fears in pot firms, users
The Trump administration’s decision to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws has sent shivers through users, medical patients and businesses encouraged by the growing number of states legalizing the drug.
Traffickers drug 17-yr-old girl, sell her 3-month-old boy for N910,000
ABAKALIKI—A 17-year-old teenage girl was allegedly drugged by traffickers, labbelled mentally ill and her three-month-old boy sold for N910,000.
