Iraq buries young victims of football pitch bomb carnage

Iraq on Saturday buried the victims, among them many young boys, of a suicide attack that ripped through a trophy ceremony after a local football tournament and killed 32 people.

Inside LASU

 Management of the Lagos State University, LASU has suspended 25 students over their failure to appear before the Students Disciplinary Committee (SDC) investigating alleged examination misconducts leveled against them.

Brussels Exposes Airport Security Weakness

 Australia has accused European leaders of failing to protect their citizens from terrorism. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull waded into the debate about protecting borders, blaming lax security across Europe for the attacks.

CAN Calls Emergency Meeting over Abduction of Official

 The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has convened an emergency meeting to unravel the circumstances surrounding the abduction of the President of TEKAN/ECWA, one of its Blocs, Rev.

China vaccine scandal: 37 arrested

 Thirty-seven people have been arrested in eastern China over a huge vaccine scandal, state media report. It comes after police in Shandong announced last month they had arrested a mother and her daughter accused of buying and selling vaccines illegally.

Obama appeals for economic revolution in Cuba with call to embrace free market

 Barack Obama urged Cuba to embrace the free market in a landmark speech in Havana that championed economic liberty rather than political reform as the key to unleashing the potential of its people.

Buhari gets kudos over appointment of N-Delta indigenes

 A Niger Delta peace advocacy group, Concerned Progressives for Development and Good Governance, CPDGG, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment of capable and upright indigenes of Niger Delta region into his cabinet.

FG Says to Inject N350Bn to Stimulate Economy

 Federal Government, in anticipation of the approval of the budget, has announced that it is set to pump about N350 billion into the economy in few months in other to revamp it.

Apple unveils smaller iPhone and iPad Pro

 Apple has announced smaller versions of theiPhone and iPad Pro at an event hosted in San Francisco.

The iPhone SE has the same processing and graphics performance o

Ciara and Russell Wilson Engaged

National Assembly Explains Delay in Passing 2016 Budget

 The National Assembly on Thursday gave reasons for failing to pass the 2016 Appropriation Bill on the day it had earlier promised Nigerians.

China partners Kwara on textile industrial park

 The Chinese government has expressed readiness to partner with the Kwara State Government in its efforts to develop a textile industrial park in the state. This was made known at the weekend by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Gu XiaoJie, when the Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed led a state's delegation and a Chinese Company, Ming Bo Jin Sheng Star Co. Ltd, to the Ambassador in Abuja.

Wale announces plans to release two albums in 2016

 Wale announced a new album
by the name of Shine, giving us the name only
and no other details, and now we've got a slight
update. In an interview with Complex at SXSW,
the MMG rapper spoke on his upcoming fifth
album and gave some additional hints about two
more new projects.

This drug is killing more people than heroin

A synthetic opiate is causing a wave of overdose deaths in America – produced in illicit labs in China and Mexico and often sold in place of heroin.

The illicitly manufactured painkiller Fentanyl is between 20 and 100 times stronger than heroin, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

INEC to investigate alleged distribution of fake result sheets in Rivers rerun

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will investigate alleged distribution of fake result sheets in some polling units in Saturday’s legislative re-run elections in Rivers. The Commission’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, made this known in an interview on Monday in Abuja.

Alex Iwobi scored his first BPL goal against Everton

Teenage sensation, Alex Iwobi scored his first senior goal for Arsenal as Arsene Wenger’s men bounced back from a disastrous week to maintain their faint hopes of a late Premier League title challenge. The 19-year-old Nigeria international showed tremendous composure to score the visitor’s second shortly before half-time after Danny Welbeck had broken the deadlock early with his fourth goal in nine games.