Abuja: A three-storey building housing a primary school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Wednesday, trapping over 100 schoolchildren, authorities said. The building came down when schoolchildren were attending classes, Efe news reported citing officials. Teams of rescue workers were at the scene but no details about the[Read More…]
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Nigerian boys do it again! Win Indian hearts with their ‘Bholi Si Surat’
Remember back in December a group of young Nigerian boys went viral for singing Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’ title track? They won the Indian hearts with their performance and now they’re back with yet another song of King Khan. Another video of the same boys has landed[Read More…]
Gunmen kill 17 in Nigeria
Abuja, Seventeen people have been killed following an attack by unidentified gunmen in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, police said. The incident happened in Magami village of Faru district in the Maradun area of Zamfara. State police spokesman Muhammed Shehu on Sunday said more police officers have been deployed in the area[Read More…]
Biggest fall in #MeToo India so far, media reports suggest MJ Akbar to be asked to resign on arrival
The cloud of #MeToo seems to envelop one after another as the names keep emerging with each passing day. Now, after Nana Patekar got booked for allegedly sexually assaulting an actor on a movie set, the news of Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar’s expected resignation is making[Read More…]
Wanted Nitin Sandesara for Rs 5,000 cr bank fraud leaves UAE, suspected to be in Nigeria
Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, the owner of Gujarat-based Sterling Biotech group and wanted by CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) for allegedly involved in Rs 5,300-crore bank loan fraud, is believed to have left UAE. It is suspected that Nitin could have fled to Nigeria because India does not have an extradition[Read More…]
Multiple bomb blasts rock migrant camp in Nigeria
Multiple suicide bomb blasts tore apart an immigrant camp consisting of persons fled from Boko Haram camp in Nigeria on Wednesday. The incident took place in Nigeria’s restive northeastern city of Maiduguri, said reports. “There were four explosions inside the camp,” the coordinator of the Muna camp Tijjani Lumani told[Read More…]
Nigerian women displaced by Boko Haram hold protest
Boko Haram jihadists drove out a thousand of Nigerian women forced from their homes to hold a protest against the authority demanding better conditions as UN Security Council envoys visited their camp. The demands of the demonstrators were strictly accusing the local authorities and aid agencies of making worse one[Read More…]
Curfew imposed after ethnic violence in Nigeria
At least 100 Killed as Nigerian Jet mistakenly bombs refugee camp
In a shocking incident, a Nigerian air force fighter jet, which was on a mission to target Boko Haram extremists, had mistakenly bombed a refugee camp on Tuesday. The incident killed over 100 refugees and aid workers, said a Borno state official. The accidental bombardment in the northeastern town of[Read More…]
Bomb blasts at Nigeria University 5 killed
Warning! Giraffes getting rarer, put on extinction watch list
The tallest land animal, giraffe, is now at risk of extinction, biologists say. Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official watch list of threatened and endangered species worldwide, calling it “vulnerable.” That’s two steps up the danger ladder[Read More…]