The government of Abia State has opened an investigation into the strange death of seven members of a family at Umueze community in Umuahia North Local Government Area. The victims are said to have died as a result of food poisoning after allegedly eating beef barbecue, also known as Suya, with some fruit juice. The Commissioner for…
Security operatives have reportedly stopped the ongoing recruitment of Nigerian doctors who applied to work in Saudi Arabia. Several medical doctors have been taking part in the Saudi job screening at the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja since Tuesday this week. Reports say a journalist with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, identified as Marcus Fatunde, was also arrested…
Apple Chief Executive, Tim Cook has received more than five million shares in the technology giant, as he marks ten years in the job. A company filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows that he sold most of the shares for more than seven hundred million dollars. It is part of a deal he struck…
President Joe Biden says the US airlift from Kabul will continue despite a jihadist attack that killed over 90 people including 13 US service members. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan, which fell to the Taliban on 15 August. But many more Afghans have been rushing to the airport ahead of the 31 August…
The Nigerian Army has said that it does not recruit former terrorists, and has no plan to do so. The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, made the clarification in reaction to such suggestion in a video that was circulated online. Brigadier General Nwachukwu said the online video by one Young Elder, which was…
More details have emerged on the deadly attack at the headquarters of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Afaka, Kaduna State. One of the military officers killed by the attackers has been identified as Flight Lieutenant Chinecherem Okoronkwo. The attackers, who were dressed in military uniform, killed Flight Lieutenant Okoronkwo and another officer in the residential area of…