August 2021

The Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed that 101 stranded Nigerians from Libya have successfully been repatriated.

The persons, who arrived in Abuja yesterday, according to a statement by Head, Media, Public Relations and Protocols, National Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abdur-Rahman Balogun, included 22 family members of slain members of terrorist group, Islamic State of Iraq, and Syria (ISIS).

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The statement entitled: ‘FG facilitates return of 101 stranded Nigerians’, said that the returnees were received by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIDCOM, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, National …

A former Chairman of Training and Operations at the Military Headquarters in Abuja, Brigadier Gen. John Sura (retd.), has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to deploy the over 1,000 Boko Haram terrorists who recently repented to the farm.

Speaking on Friday, he they should be used to cultivate agricultural products that they deprived the Internally Displaced Persons and other Nigerians to produce.

He disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Treat Boko Haram repentant terrorists as prisoners of war.’

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Sura, who described the repentant terrorists as prisoners of war, …

A helicopter that 16 tourists onboard and crew on a sightseeing trip in Russia’s far east crashed into a lake yesterday, leaving eight people including a child feared dead and two others in serious condition.

The Mi-8 helicopter crash-landed into the icy waters of Kuril Lake in the mountainous Kamchatka peninsula in poor visibility and sank, local authorities said.

Staff of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve dispatched boats to the crash site and saved eight people, two of whom are now in intensive care with various injuries. Survivors praised wildlife inspectors for coming to their rescue in a matter of minutes.…

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims presently in Jordan have offered prayers for peace in Nigeria even as the security and economic challenges confronting the nation appear to have worsened.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that a group of the Pilgrims, who were led by a tour guide, Mueen Akvoush and the Executive Chairman, Kogi State Christian Pilgrims Commission, Ajinuhi Samuel Oluwafemi, visited Gedara where Jesus Christ casted demons out of a madman who was possessed of an unclean spirit.

This was even as pilgrims prayed fervently to God to cast out the spirit of the destruction of lives banditry, kidnappers …