Oyewale Oyelola The joint winner of 2014 Nobel Peace award Malala Yousafzai has donated $50,000 given to her for winning the World Children’s Prize to rebuild U.N. schools destroyed by recent fighting between Israel and Palestine. Malala won the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East(UNRWA) prize this year. […]
A Muslim convert shot dead a Canadian soldier in Ottawa before exchanging dozens of shots with guards inside Parliament in an attack that left the country’s capital on lockdown Wednesday. The attacker, who was later identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, as the 24-year old stood guard at the War Memorial. He […]
Oyewale Oyelola Pakistani teen Child Education campaigners, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi have been announced the joint winner of 2014 Nobel Peace Award. While 17 years old Yousafzai is leading the crusade for child right to education, another fellow teen – 16 years old India born Satyarthi is a peace advocate and crusader against […]
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide once and for all whether states can ban gay marriage, a surprising move that will allow gay men and women to get married in five additional states, with more likely to follow quickly. On the first day of its new term, the high court without comment […]
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Thursday said that only five Nigerians performing this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia have so far died. NAHCON spokesperson, Malam Uba Mana in an exclusive phone interview said that contrary to reports that 10 Nigerians died on Monday in Saudi Arabia, it was five of them […]
By Ayo Balogun The present measures and initiatives to check insurgency in some countries around the world, require prompt global attention, urgent and total review, says the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan made the advocacy Wednesday while addressing the High level meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the 69th Session […]
Scotland has voted to stay in the United Kingdom after rejecting independence. With 30 out of the country’s 32 council areas having declared after Thursday’s vote, the “No” side has an unassailable lead of 1,877,252 votes to 1,512,688. The winning total needed was 1,852,828. Nationally, the margin of victory is about 55% to 45%. The […]
Voting – referendum is underway far in Scotland to decide wether that part of the United kingdom (UK) should remain or be declared a separate and an independent country. It is expetced that a total of 4,285,323 registered people, representing 97 per cent of the eligible voters will vote at 2,608 – polling points across […]
Islamic State militants have released footage claiming to show the beheading of British hostage David Haines. The aid worker, 44, was captured by ISIS in Syria in March 2013. The plight of the dad-of-two was revealed when he appeared at the end of a video showing the beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff earlier this […]
The U.S. Embassy in Kampala has warned Americans in Uganda to stay indoors after the country’s forces arrested several terror suspects and recovered explosives in an operation to foil an “imminent” terrorist attack on the city. The country’s security forces have ratcheted up security in all public places, vowing to “effectively defeat whoever tried […]
The United States (US) Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry has finally arrived Egypt to pursue effort in forming a strong and broad coalition to confront the Islamic State (IS) insurgents. While in the North African country, Kerry is expected to meet with the Arab League Chief Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo to discuss update and […]
Oscar Pistorius who was accused of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp last year has been absolved of committing the criminal offence. A South African Pretoria’s High Court Judge, Thokozile Masipa on Thursday dismissed the charges against Pistorius, declaring that the state failed to prove the case against him beyond the reasonable doubt, but added the […]
By Niyi Adeyi The Saudi Arabia authorities have cleared the air on the confusion surrounding the fate of the pilgrims from some countries, for this year’s Hajj exercise, confirming the Nigerians will be allowed entrance into the kingdom despite outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. Still, pilgrims from Sierra Leon, Liberia […]
An American federal air marshall has been screened and quarantined for Ebola Virus in Houston after he was injected with a syringe full of an unknown substance at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The man reported the attack, which occurred in an unsecured, public area of the terminal, and the FBI and the […]
The late American journalist, Steven Sotloff allegedly behead by the Islamic State militants (ISIS) in Iraq has been described by his family as a professional who sacrificed his life to satisfy his professional passion. Sotloff whose video clip of his gruesome killing by the militants was made public early in the week, was praised by […]
Following the release by the Islamic State Militants (ISIS) video of gruesome kiliing of yet another American Journalist, Steven Sotloff, the United States (US) President, Barack Obama has maintained the country will not be intimidated by beheading trend. Obama asserted that the country had wide network and the wherewithal to dispense justice in the long […]
The blame over the ongoing bloody war ravaging in most of the Middle East countries has been placed at doorstep of the world super power – the United States (US). A political scientist and an Islamic scholar, Alhaji Nojeem Jimoh made this submission Wednesday afternoon on a post in his Facebook account. While affirming that […]
The French Prime Minister (PM) Manuel Valls, Monday morning resigned his appointment, following torrent criticism of poor economy. Consequently, Valls has been directed by President Francois Hollande to constitute a new cabinet that would suit the economic direction of the country and present administration. Former PM has earlier been criticized by the economy Minister, Arnaud […]
No fewer than 322 Nigerian students under the Federal Government scholarship are currently begging for food and means of survival in Russia. House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Diaspora Affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. According to her, the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs has recently received with a deep sense […]
…as victim pleads with the rest of the world to pray for West Africa Two American aid workers who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West Africa have been discharged from an Atlanta hospital after medical officials determined they had recovered and were not contagious. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, was released from Emory University […]
