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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives yesterday arrested a Bureau De Change operator and five other suspected money laundering accomplices for swallowing $156,000 (approximately N31, 083, 000.00) at Excel Oriental Hotel along Airport Road, Lagos. Vanguard reports that the

The Muslim Eid-el-Kabir or Eid-il-Adha festival will now be celebrated on 24 September. This followed the shifting of the Arafat Day from 22 September to 23 September by the Saudi Arabia moon sighting committee. The federal government of Nigeria is

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Wednesday said five Nigerian pilgrims had died in the Holy land The Head of Madinah Operations of NAHCON, Dr Bello Tambuwal, disclosed this to newsmen in Madinah. Tambuwal said four of the

A journalist was trampled to death after a herd of wild elephants invaded a village in North-Central Sri Lanka, police said on Tuesday. Priyantha Ratnayaka a videographer was stomped by one elephant while wildlife officials were trying to drive the

A video showing a pilgrim cruising around the Ka`aba on a hoverboard at the Holy Grand Mosque in Makkah went viral this week, triggering mixed reactions. The footage showed a man riding on a self-balancing smart scooter to perform Tawaf

Announcing his demise in a tweet at about 9.pm on Tuesday, Nigerian Journalist/Publisher, Dele Momodu, said: “Nigeria, and indeed Africa, has just lost one of its greatest sons; Ambassador Chief Antonio Dehinde Fernandez is gone!” Details soon

A Nigerian woman identified as 37-year-old Bimbo Ayelabola has been let off by a National Health Service (NHS) Hospital after delivering quintuplets in Britain. The UK’s Telegraph reports that Ayelabola underwent a complex caesarean section in 2011, but failed to

Kathleen Meese, an upstate New York schoolteacher, plunked down $25,000 five years ago for “Gold Elite” courses at Trump University — a for-profit educational outfit owned by Donald Trump that promised prospective students it would teach them how to “make

Simon Ateba, a journalist based in Nigeria, was on Friday, arrested by security agents in Cameroon when he was working on a story of Nigerian refugees who fled across the border to that country. He narrated what happened on his