BRITAIN has issued a stern travel warning to its citizens planning to visit Nigeria urging them to avoid visiting 24 states because of a recent upsurge in violence that includes kidnapping and armed robbery.
[1] Today is June 19. On this day in 1963, Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova returned from space. She became the first woman ever to do so. She had been been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on June 16
ISLAMIC campaign group Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has accused the Adeleke University of Ede in Osun State, of persecuting Muslim students by forcing them to attend Sunday church services.
Founded in 2011, the Adeleke University is a faith-based institution established through the Springtime Development Foundation (SDF), a philanthropic, non-profit organisation. It is closely aligned with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its philosophy is that of Christian education.
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has vowed to arrest and prosecute parents who fail to send their children to school in the state because begging is un-Islamic and those who allow their wards to engage in it are contravening the koran's teaching.
NIGERIA has been identified as one of the most fertile nations on earth by the United Nations Population Division after a recent survey revealed that it is one of the few nations on earth where males outnumber females.
DIASPORA community body the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) has called for calm after a Nigerian Ewohime Apkovweta was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for damaging cars belonging to the high commission in London yesterday.
PRESIDENCY officials have condemned yesterday's poor officiating that led to the Super Falcons being defeated 0-1 by France in the Fifa Women's World Cup after the referee allowed the French team to take a penalty twice in the dying minutes of the game.
NIGERIA runs the risk of seeing a dramatic growth in illiteracy and a rise in the number of out-of-school children after the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) warned that an increasing number of parents are keeping their kids at home due to security fears.
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje has ordered an investigation into a mysterious case of a missing N6.8m ($19,000) after it was reported that the money generated from visitors to the Zoo during the just concluded Sallah was swallowed by a pet gorilla.
BRITAIN has issued a stern travel warning to its citizens planning to visit Nigeria urging them to avoid visiting 24 states because of a recent upsurge in violence that includes kidnapping and armed robbery.
ISLAMIC campaign group Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has accused the Adeleke University of Ede in Osun State, of persecuting Muslim students by forcing them to attend Sunday church services.
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has vowed to arrest and prosecute parents who fail to send their children to school in the state because begging is un-Islamic and those who allow their wards to engage in it are contravening the koran's teaching.
NIGERIA has been identified as one of the most fertile nations on earth by the United Nations Population Division after a recent survey revealed that it is one of the few nations on earth where males outnumber females.
DIASPORA community body the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) has called for calm after a Nigerian Ewohime Apkovweta was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for damaging cars belonging to the high commission in London yesterday.
PRESIDENCY officials have condemned yesterday's poor officiating that led to the Super Falcons being defeated 0-1 by France in the Fifa Women's World Cup after the referee allowed the French team to take a penalty twice in the dying minutes of the game.
NIGERIA runs the risk of seeing a dramatic growth in illiteracy and a rise in the number of out-of-school children after the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) warned that an increasing number of parents are keeping their kids at home due to security fears.
GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje has ordered an investigation into a mysterious case of a missing N6.8m ($19,000) after it was reported that the money generated from visitors to the Zoo during the just concluded Sallah was swallowed by a pet gorilla.
