Supermodel Naomi Campbell said on Sunday that Vogue magazine should launch an African edition to recognise the continent's contribution to a global Fashion industry that has been criticised for its lack of diversity. Campbell, who was visiting Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, to appear on the runway at Arise Fashion Week, said there was a need for better representation of the continent Read More ...
New Delhi: An oil tanker carrying approximately $US8.1 million ($11.3 million) in petrol with a crew of 22 Indians is entering a third day since it went missing off the coast of West Africa. India's Directorate General of Shipping was in touch with its counterparts in Nigeria and Benin on Sunday as efforts continue to locate the tanker. A senior official said: "The Nigerian Navy and coastguard carried out an aerial search at and around the location where the vessel was last anchored, but they have not been able to trace it so far Read More ...
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has responsibility for Nigeria’s foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities. That puts it on the same footing as the United States of America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR RF) or Israel’s Mossad. Operations of bodies like these are meant to be clandestine, shrouded in the highest secrecy possible, but nonetheless they have the unwavering task of securing the nation Read More ...
Comme prévu, les élections communales tant à entendues par les Guinéens, ont démarré ce dimanche 4 février 2018 sur toute l’étendue du territoire national. Très tôt ce matin, Plus précisément vers 7 heures 00, les différents bureaux de vote ont été ouverts. A Kouroussa, 395 bureaux de vote ont été mis en place pour 123 mille 283 électeurs. Et partout dans les bureaux vote sillonnés, l’on a constaté une faible mobilisation des citoyens Read More ...
(CNN)The search for a missing oil tanker off the coast of West Africa entered its fourth day Sunday, with no word on the fate of the 22 Indian nationals aboard the vessel. The vessel, Marine Express, was carrying more than 13,000 tons of gasoline and went missing in the Gulf of Guinea, according to a statement from the Anglo Eastern, the ship's managing company Read More ...
Le manque d’affluence des électeurs devant les bureaux de vote et la faible représentation des partis sont la spécificité de ces élections communales ce dimanche 4 février à Siguiri. Même si la période de campagne à été animée, les citoyens de la zone aurifère n’ont pas tellement répondu à l’appel au vote massif lancé par la CENI. Si d’habitude l’on pouvait observer des files indiennes devant la plupart des bureaux de vote, cette fois-ci, les électeurs se comptent du bout du doigt Read More ...
MILAN – A Nigerian woman shot by an Italian right-wing extremist during a drive-by rampage says she no longer feels free to walk around the city "with peace of mind" after the attack. The 29-year-old, identified only as Jennifer, told the daily La Stampa that "I never hurt anyone. I was talking and laughing with three other people" when she was struck by the bullet Read More ...
Milan - A Nigerian woman shot by an Italian right-wing extremist during a drive-by rampage says she no longer feels free to walk around the city "with peace of mind" after the attack. The 29-year-old, identified only as Jennifer, told the daily La Stampa that "I never hurt anyone. I was talking and laughing with three other people" when she was struck by the bullet Read More ...
Conakry - Guinea began voting on Sunday in the first local elections since the end of the era of military dictatorship following eight years of delays. The municipal council elections, originally scheduled for 2010, have been repeatedly delayed due to a lack of funds, political infighting and the 2013-2016 Ebola crisis. Failing schools, unemployment, electricity shortages and corruption allegations are all election issues in the West African country Read More ...
MILAN (AP) — A Nigerian woman shot by an Italian right-wing extremist during a drive-by rampage says she no longer feels free to walk around the city "with peace of mind" after the attack. The 29-year-old, identified only as Jennifer, told the daily La Stampa that "I never hurt anyone. I was talking and laughing with three other people" when she was struck by the bullet Read More ...
People from a remote village in Sierra Leone have documented the rebuilding of their community from the Ebola epidemic – by taking photographs of themselves getting on with daily life. The project involved 11 villagers, aged from 8 to 75, who were given digital cameras so they could provide an insight into life in the jungle. The village is located in a region known locally as “the place where bad things come from” Read More ...
The Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Mr. Rufai Abubakar, has barred all directors of the agency from travelling out of Abuja and ordered an investigation into the leakage of sensitive information to the social media. Read More ...
Lome - Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Togo's capital Lome on Saturday, against President Faure Gnassingbe and his government. The protest came the day after mediators from Ghana and Guinea said that Togo will enter talks on controversial constitutional reform February 15, in a move aimed at ending a crippling political stalemate. A rolling series of demonstrations against President Gnassingbe have been unfolding for several months, and the country has been rocked by striking teachers and health workers Read More ...
Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Nigeria’s top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed Saturday. Danladi Umar was accused by the country’s anti-graft body EFCC of demanding 10 million naira (22,300 euros; $27,800) from a suspect “for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending charge”, according to court papers seen by AFP Read More ...
Seun Adigun told herself her athletic career was done after she ran her last race at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. But for some reason, she couldn’t bring herself to tell the world. Three years later, she realized: Adigun wasn’t retiring – she was readying for a new sport. And her years competing as a 100-meter hurdler were great preparation what would come next Read More ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigeria's top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed yesterday. Danladi Umar was accused by the country's anti-graft body, EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) of demanding 10 million naira (22,300 euros; US$27,800) from a suspect “for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending charge”, according to court papers seen by AFP Read More ...
CONAKRY: Guinea holds its first local elections since the end of the era of military dictatorship on Sunday, as voting gets underway to elect municipal councils following eight years of delays. The elections, originally scheduled in 2010, have been repeatedly delayed due to a lack of funds, political infighting and the 2013-16 Ebola crisis. The authoritarian General Lansane Conte then seized power in a coup Read More ...
Près de six millions d'électeurs sont appelés aux urnes ce matin pour départager près de 30 000 candidats pour des municipales qui n’avaient pas été tenues depuis 13 ans et ou 342 mairies sont en jeu. Lors des dernières municipales contestées par l’opposition en 2005, le camp de feu le président Lansana Conté avait raflé près de 80% des suffrages. Cette année 2018, elles restent très ouvertes, notamment entre le RPG au pouvoir et l’opposition UFDG Read More ...
The Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Association of Nigeria (MWFAAN), has called for applications for the second edition of it’s flagship programme, the Beyond School Community (BSC) Challenge for secondary School students in Nigeria. The BSC Challenge is a national community development and entrepreneurship program designed specifically to engage young Nigerians in secondary schools (both private and public) to develop the critical entrepreneurial skills they need to make impacts in their communities Read More ...
Premier League leaders Manchester City paid the price for missed chances as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Burnley on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Johann Berg Gudmundsson’s 82nd minute equaliser ensured that the hosts earned a share of the spoil at Turf Moor. City had dominated possession throughout most of the game, which they strolled through for large spells Read More ...
PALM BUSH, River Cess – A motorcycle accident has left one person dead in River Cess. Lester Zeogar, 18, met his demise on Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle ran into another motorcycle on the Monweh to Central River Cess road. Reports say he was transporting a dead woman on the motorcycle when the accident occurred. This is the second motorcyclist to die in the same area in two months Read More ...
The Federal Government has accused the Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB ) of using fake videos of mass killings, harvested from other parts of Africa and doctored to look current, to mislead the international community and win their support. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this when he addressed Online Publishers in Lagos on Monday. ”We must warn the nation against IPOB’s next line of action, which is to externalize their lies and propaganda Read More ...
Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has told party supporters that the recounting of ballot papers as ordered by the tribunal showed that he defected Governor Godwin Obaseki. Pastor Ize-Iyamu who assured party supporters that the PDP would bounce back to power in 2019 urged the party leaders to get more youths and women involved in party politics Read More ...
Sierra Leone's sports minister, Ahmed Khanou, has denied interfering in the Sierra Leone Football Association's (SLFA) peace process. It follows a letter from Fifa's secretary general Fatma Samoura dated 30 January, warning him not to interfere and to allow the SLFA to "manage its affairs independently and without undue influence from third parties." Khanou is a member of a Fifa task force set up to resolve internal problems within the SLFA Read More ...
African migrants injured in Italian drive-by attack days after Nigerian migrant accused of murder A lone gunman has targeted foreigners in a drive-by shooting spree in a central Italian city, wounding six people, before being arrested. The suspect's motive was not immediately clear, but the city of Macerata in the central Marche region is still reeling from the gruesome killing and dismemberment of a young Italian woman this week, allegedly at the hands of a Nigerian immigrant Read More ...
Nigerians met their Winter Olympic bobsled team for the first time just one week before the start of the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Thirty years after a Jamaican squad became a global sensation, the trio of Nigerian women Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga will become the first African bobsleigh team in Winter Olympic history. In the event, a two- or four-person team competes with others by seeing who can drive their sled down an ice-track route in the fastest time Read More ...
ABUJA: Nigeria's top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed Saturday. Danladi Umar was accused by the country's anti-graft body EFCC of demanding 10 million naira (RM108,000) from a suspect "for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending charge", according to court papers seen by AFP Read More ...
Abuja - Nigeria's top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed Saturday. Danladi Umar was accused by the country's anti-graft body EFCC of demanding 10 million naira ($27 800) from a suspect "for a favour to be afterwards shown to him in relation to the pending charge", according to court papers seen by AFP Read More ...
Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has disclosed that the state government had received a recorded communication from unknown persons that the state will be under heavy attack in the next ten days. Ishaku stated this in Jalingo on Thursday when the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Mr. Uche Sekondus paid him a condolence visit over the death the member representing Takum at the State House of Assembly, Hon Read More ...
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has told the Senate that suspending the anti-open grazing laws passed by some states is one way to end deadly clashes between herders and farmers. Read More ...
The wife of Kebbi governor, Dr. Zainab Bagudu, has donated breast cancer screening kits to 500 women in Gwandu Local Government Area. Read More ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a two-count charge of bribery against Justice Danladi Umar, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The case was filed on 25 January before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on 25 January. In the second count, it was alleged that Justice Umar, through his Personal Assistant, Mr. Gambo Abdullahi, of N1 Read More ...
Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye, the Nigerian lawyer disbarred in the US and Nigeria; and two other lawyers. Messrs. Nsikak Udo and Farouk Khamagam, were, on Thursday, arraigned before Chief Magistrate Court 2 Wuse Zone 2 Area, Abuja. The three men were arraigned before the court, presided over by Chief Magistrate Mabel Bello, for alleged criminal roles in the disappearance of an Abuja-based woman, Mrs Read More ...
A former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Friday expressed fears that the 2019 elections may be stalled unless the federal government quickly finds an enduring solution to the persistent killings in Benue State. The ex-governor stated this during a condolence visit to Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, on the recent mayhem in the state. He said there can be no election in a state of uncertainty and unrest Read More ...
MONROVIA, Montserrado – The Liberia Muslim Women Network, in collaboration with other Muslim organizations in the country, joined the world in celebrating World Hijab Day from across six counties, including Montserrado, Bassa, Bomi and Grand Cape Mount, Bong, and Maryland. The celebration of the event started from the January 28th and ended on February 2, 2018 with an indoor celebration. February 1 was the main day of celebration and included a parade through Central Monrovia Read More ...
The Police have arrested a former recruit and four others for allegedly kidnapping ASP Solomon Aniefiok, the Unit Commander of Mopol 55, based in Aba, Abia state. The kidnapping gang also collected an undisclosed ransom, before the Police officer was freed. A reliable source close to the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Friday Read More ...
An educationist, Mr Philip Balogun, on Friday said that many students lose interest in Mathematics because of the difficult and cumbersome processes applied by their teachers. Balogun, who is Vice Principal, Grace Group of Schools, Gbagada, spoke in an interview with our reporter in Lagos. He said for this reason, many children, right from the tender age, developed cold feet in solving mathematics problems Read More ...
EDO State governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Friday said that he was at the Presidential Villa to seek President Muhammadu Buhari’s assistance towards ending the menace of human trafficking and modern slavery involving indigenes of the state. He spoke with State House journalists after meeting with President Buhari at the State House. He said “I have not seen the President officially since I became the governor of Edo State, so I came to pay him a proper visit and to pledge our support particularly since he got back home from his medical leave and the son’s accident Read More ...
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, yesterday identified the controversial anti-open grazing laws in Benue and Taraba states as the source of the unending crisis in the two middle belt states. The police boss told the Senate joint Committee on Police Affairs and National Intelligence that the enactment of the laws against the opposition of herdsmen was responsible for the problem in the states Read More ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has filed a two-count charge against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Yakubu Umar, in connection with an alleged N10million bribery scam. Umar reportedly demanded for the bribe from a former Comptroller of Customs, Rasheed Owolabi Taiwo. Umar is due to face trial in the High Court of Federal Capital Territory Read More ...
