Russia has offered to send an Alsatian puppy to France in a gesture of solidarity after a police dog was killed during a raid on jihadists linked to the Paris attacks. Russia’s interior minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said he had written to his French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve offering to send a puppy named Dobrynya to replace […]
Continue ReadingDavid Spisak, Jr. was diagnosed to have leukemia at just 2 years old. Today, six years later, the Chesapeake, Virginia boy has had two bone marrow transplants and was diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time in March. Although doctors told David’s parents the boy would likely live only four to six weeks without treatment, […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the terror attack in Paris and threats to bomb the US, World leaders have unanimously agreed to fight ISIS together which is now being described as ‘a global & unprecedented threat to international peace and security’. The UN Security Council which met yesterday November 20, called on countries to take ‘all necessary measures’ to […]
Continue ReadingThe Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday disowned the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and his cohorts in their struggle for the state of Biafra. The Chairman, Forum of State Presidents of Ohanaeze in the seven Igbo –speaking states, in Awka, Dr. Chris Eluomunoh, said no right thinking person would support what he called the madness of […]
Continue ReadingA statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina yesterday stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for Tehran, Iranian capital to participate in the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum, GECF, which opens on Monday. The statement read: “President Buhari and the leaders of Iran, Russia, Qatar, the Netherlands, […]
Continue ReadingIn a report on Today programme, Al Bangura who played in the Premier League for Watford from 2009 – 2015, spoke to BBC’s Sima Kotecha on how at 14, his parents told him to become the leader of the secret society his late father had headed in Sierra Leone. The 27-year-old who is now working […]
Continue ReadingThe 36 state governors at a meeting yesterday, at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja under the umbrella of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, said that dwindling prices of oil has affected their states income thereby making it difficult to pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 […]
Continue ReadingFares have gone up on most routes in Anambra State following increase in the price of fuel from the normal N87 per litre to about N200 in most filling stations. Added to the ordeal of motorists in the state is the shady deal by officials of NNPC mega station in Awka which has resorted to […]
Continue ReadingLai Mohammed the newly appointed minister of Information yesterday met with various heads of parastatals in the Ministry of Information. At the meeting, Lai Mohammed blamed them over what he said was their lack of efficiency and effectiveness in their discharge of duties. He stated that the politicizing of issues by the government agencies in […]
Continue ReadingSome people are monsters and don’t deserve to be parents. Undercover Houston police officers were looking through Craigslist ads when they found something shocking in the Casual Encounters section. An ad titled “Play with Daddy’s Little Girl,” created by 28-year-old Andrew Turley, offered up sex with his daughter in exchange for money. Officers contacted the man […]
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