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The trustees of Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, will today be arraigned

Turkey on Monday sent back to Russia the corpse of a pilot killed when

The Syrian army has said it has information that Turkey is supporting militant

World leaders are arriving in Paris for the COP21 conference, which opens today and runs through December 11th.

China’s first domestically designed regional jet, the ARJ21-700, arrived at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport on a bright sunny Sunday.

Eligibility: UK/EU/International Deadline: 12 February 2016 UEA Studentships

This scholarship is offered to students from outside the Kingdom based. on the Kingdom’s relations with other

French prosecutors have confirmed that the Islamic State jihadist suspected of orchestrating the Paris attacks was killed in a major police raid.

The interior minister of France has reportedly said he will begin the dissolution of “mosques where hate is preached”

(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers led by Behnam Javanmardi of the University of Bonn in Germany has recently discovered 11 low surface brightness (LSB) systems located around nearby spiral galaxies. The researchers used small amateur telescopes to scan the sky around large galaxies and successfully obtained the images of their dim companions. A paper reporting the findings appeared last week on the ArXiv pre-print server.

KANO – Scores were feared dead in Kano Wednesday from twin blast at the heart of GSM market, Nassarawa GRA.

Following the adoption of the motion on “JAMB’s new admission policy” which was sponsored by Senator Joshua Lidani of Gombe South and seven others,

The 2hp generator popularly known as “I better pass my neighbor” has been banned by the Federal Government The Controller,

As well as planning banning the burka, Senegal is also enforcing the registration of mobile phone Sim cards as part of its efforts to curb terrorist activities.

Facebook has activated its "Safety Check" feature after the deadly bomb blast that killed 32 people in north-eastern Nigerian city of Yola.

A maths problem, which has gone more than 150 years

Molecular biologist Nina Dudnik was studying rice in Côte d'Ivoire when she realized the logistical challenge of doing research in the developing world. “I was trying to conduct research in a country an ocean away from where the equipment manufacturers and reagent suppliers were,” she says.

Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel is meeting some of the parents of the 219 girls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram militants last year.

Members of the Electricity Consumer Protection Forum, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), on Thursday at Ikeja, Lagos, welcomed new power minister, Babatunde Fashola, with a protest walk against proposed hike in electricity tariff.

A US strike on Syria that targeted British militant “Jihadi John” was “an act of self defence”, Britain‘s Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday while acknowledging his death was “not yet certain”.

By Bamikole Omishore Social media is an integral part of governance and leaders worldwide have accepted the need to maintain a social presence in one or more of the media platform to engage the electorate and further increase the conversations about governance.

The attack, backed by US-led coalition airstrikes, is a move to reclaim the town of Sinjar - which evil ISIS overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis.

Barely six months after coming to power, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, finally assigned portfolios to his ministers- designates at the Ministerial Inauguration that took place at the Presidential Villa. The full list include:

Food was once seen as a source of sustenance and pleasure. Today, the dinner table can instead begin to feel like a minefield. Is the bacon on your plate culinary asbestos, and will the wheat in your toast give you “grain brain”? Even the bubbles of gas in your fizzy drinks have been considered a hazard .

In a new study from the University of Leipzig, researchers examined how neurotic, extraverted, conscientious, open and agreeable 20,000 people were from the UK, US and Germany - and concluded that personality is not affected by whether you were born first, last or in between.

Nigeria's then-military regime sparked global outrage after convicting Mr Saro-Wiwa of murder and hanging him.

International cyber policing company, Kaspersky Laboratory Solution, says internet operations witnessed increased mobile threats, financial theft from online banking and targeted cyber-attacks in the first nine months of 2015. The company, in a statement,

Manchester united skipper, Wayne Rooney, in front of his son, Kai, slapped 6ft7 British WWE super star, Wade Barrett, on Monday night.

Many parents look at their teenage boys glued to their games consoles and computer screens and worry about their future.  The mothers of Henrique Dubrugras and Pedro Franceschi aren't worrying any more.

"People are being killed every day, bodies are found on the streets... Leaders are spending time killing people", he said.

The judgments came in the northeast city of Sylhet and southeast city of Khulna. Bangladesh has seen an increase in child killings in recent years; most of the victims have been poor children

    News filtered into the country's aviation sector, on Saturday, that Virgin Atlantic Airways has concluded plans to quit the Nigerian airspace.

Nobody is immune from bankruptcy, not even stars who make big money. No matter how much you have, how you spend your money makes the difference. "Be mindful about saving and thoughtful about spending," says Susan Hirshman, author of "Does This Make My Assets Look Fat?: A Woman's Guide to Finding Financial Empowerment and Success." "Don't spend money you don't have but think you might acquire in the future," Hirshman says. Here are 6 celebrities who were forced to declare bankruptcy, or came very close, and some advice on what we can learn from their mistakes.  Stephen Baldwin lost his home  The youngest of the Baldwin brothers landed a number of roles as a reality show contestant, but the money he received from those gigs wasn't enough to keep him in his home and pay all his debts. In 2009, Baldwin and his wife filed for bankruptcy after his house went into foreclosure. To avoid foreclosure, you should know from the beginning what your

I s BlackBerry  making a comeback? “I’m going to let the market tell me,” said BlackBerry CEO John Chen during an interview with the FOX Business Network’s Liz Claman.

Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Freetown, at the stroke of midnight - marking 42 days without a single declared case of the disease. There were further cheers when the WHO local representative made the official announcement later on Saturday.

It has been more than three months since Beijing won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Although the Games are still seven years away, the International Olympic Committee sent a delegation to Beijing Tuesday to conduct a two- day orientation seminar to help the organizers of the multi-sports spectacle get more familiar with the task at hand.

Ace comedian, Julius Agwu, recently granted an interview with TVC, where he talked about his trying times, fair-weather colleagues and his new Christian Entertainers Outreach (CEO) project. He also took the opportunity to criticise the likes of D’banj, Don Jazzy, Basketmouth, Banky W, and a host of others, whom he accused of not giving him credit for his help on their blossoming career.

*Right to education of thousands of girls still under threat post Ebola crisis * No action to prevent humiliating physical examinations of schoolgirls in schools Thousands of pregnant girls, excluded from mainstream schools and barred from sitting upcoming exams, risk being left behind as Sierra Leone moves forward from the Ebola crisis, Amnesty International said in a report published today. The report,

You drive in a parkway and park in a driveway  The World Bank estimates that Mexico owes the most money of any country in the world  There are about 7000 features on an eagle

Ion propulsion, long dreamed of in science fiction, is now used to send probes and spacecraft on long journeys through space.

Activision bought Candy Crush studio King Digital Entertainment for a cool $5.9 billion. For comparison's sake, Amazon paid a paltry $970 million for Twitch while Facebook spent $2 billion on

Women’s hearts beat faster There are about 200million people who live on less than dollar in China, in one day

The Ogun State Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Wednesday seized two purposely- built bullion vans and a Ford bus loaded with bags and parcels of Cannabis popularly known as Indian hemp. The state commander of NDLEA, Bala Fagge told journalists in Abeokuta that the two vans, Nissan and Mitsubishi brands, with number plates FKJ 731 XQ and LSR 837 XR respectively, were impounded at Ijebu Igbo area of the state. He said occupants of the vehicles abandoned them after realizing that NDLEA operatives were closing in on them. He said parcels of the illicit drug were cleverly concealed inside false compartments built by the suspects inside the vans. “One could have waved on such bullion vans if one had seen them on

Multi-national oil company, Shell, lied when it claimed it had cleaned up heavily polluted areas of the Niger Delta, Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) said in a new report published on Tuesday. The report titled, “Clean it up: Shell’s false claims about oil spills in the Niger Delta”, documents ongoing contamination at four oil spill sites that Shell said it had cleaned up years ago.

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion for the payment of N5, 000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country. The motion was sponsored by Philip Aduda (PDP, FCT) but was greeted with shouts of “no, no” when he tried to explain it. Attempts by the Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, to second the motion were disrupted by the rowdiness. Intervening, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, posed the question but the senators responded along party lines. While Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members yelled ‘’aye’’ in favour of the motion, All Progressives Congress (APC) senators, who were in majority, rejected it. However, a motion calling for the probe of the utilisation of Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) funds by the immediate past administration was adopted by the senators. The sponsor of the motion, Babajide Omoworare, prayed that every naira spent by the past government on SURE- P and other poverty alleviation progr

This is to inform all Students of Delta State origin in Nigeria higher institutions of learning as recognized by NUC that the Students Special Assistance Scheme, (SSAS) (Bursary) for 2013/2014 will be paid to those qualified beneficiaries as verified by their various institutions within the week. The payment shall be done in phases beginning with

HOW the peacock got his tail is one of the “Just So” stories of natural history which biologists like to think they have cracked. His tail is for showing off to the ladies (and also to rival males) just how fit he and his genes are. A less than perfect tail means no offspring. Genes for spectacular male tails are thus preserved and promoted over the generations in a process that is called sexual selection.

Ninety-year-old Mr Chan, known around Macau’s Coloane Village as “Fat Suk” or “Rich Uncle”, has practised the same routine every morning for as long as he can remember. The sprightly and wiry man dons an oversized white T-shirt, slips on his black leather shoes and takes a morning stroll along the Coloane waterfront. It’s one of his favourite routes, though sometimes he mixes it up with a walk through the parks or across the black sand of Cheoc Van Beach. “I spend most of my days outside,” said Chan, who has eight children and 10 grandchildren. “My wife and I sit at the pier and admire the beautiful view. [Our] days pass by in joy and laughter."

A narrow ruling by Mexico's Supreme Court could eventually clear a path to make recreational use of marijuana legal. Four people in the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Personal Use will now be permitted to grow and smoke their own marijuana. Marijuana still cannot be sold in Mexico but some say the court's ruling could lead to full legalisation. Mexico has long struggled with violent conflict from drug cartels. The advocacy group first brought the case forward in 2013, seeking permission to grow plants for recreational use. The court voted 4-1 that prohibiting people from growing the drug for consumption was unconstitutional. At the scene: Reporter Speech In a country that faces drug violence on a massive scale, this is a significant ruling. Although the ruling only applies to the individuals who brought the case to the Supreme Court, activists see this as a huge first step. Armando Santacruz was one of the plaintiffs. A prominent businessman he

It wasn't so much a collective sigh of relief when President Salva Kiir finally signed the peace deal this week. It was more a sense of "let's see" as the US issued a warning that it would "hold to account" any of the leaders who might stray from their public commitment.

A cargo plane has crashed on take-off near the international airport in South Sudan's capital Juba, killing at least 36 people. South Sudan's transport minister says two people were found alive, but one of them later died. Earlier an official had said there were three survivors.

The two day retreat for 36 ministerial nominees who were recently screened and confirmed by the Senate recently would kick off today. Already, the ministers-designate, it was gathered, arrived Abuja last night. Venue of the retreat is the International Conference Center, ICC, Abuja. The event which would commence by 9:am is expected to be declared open President Mohammadu Buhari. It will be recalled that the last batch of the confirmed nominees names was submitted to the president at the presidential villa in Abuja by the president of the senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Tuesday which made the retreat possible. It is also expected that the inauguration of the appointees would take place soon after the retreat.

  It was celebration galore, yesterday, at the premises of First Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos as management of the hospital took time out to celebrate the safe delivery of one of its own, Dr. Ada Igonoh, the female doctor who survived the dreaded Ebola virus in Nigeria

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! Labour is life.                                                                                --- Thomas Carlyle It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.                                                                              --- Zig Ziglar

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind Mr Brilliant Professor™ Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy; it’s also your greatest asset or your greatest enemy… Mr Brilliant Professor™ Make obstacles your ladder and stepping stone to your platform of success… Mr Brilliant Professor™ Dream big and have the telescope of faith so as to achieve your dream… Mr Brilliant Professor™

“For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him” - Job 23:14 A very intelligent student wrote his examination with great confidence that he would succeed in all his subjects and even receive a scholarship to study abroad. But when the results were finally released, he failed in all his subjects. This greatly depressed him and the first thing that came to his mind was to commit suicide. He thought he had nothing more worth living for. When his friends rescued him from committing the abomination, he resorted to heavy drinking and became a public nuisance. This was all because he failed to figure out God’s perfect plan for him. Do you know that nothing happens to you by accident? God has perfect plan for your entire life, and every passing day He ensures that He fulfills it. He cannot allow the devil to ruin your life. Therefore, each day of your life, you must wake up with positive thoughts and pursue your dream. Trust in the