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Wounded people walk near the site of an explosion at the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut. The powerful explosions that rocked the port of Beirut on Tuesday left "people dead and injured", the Lebanon's National News Agency reported. Georges Kettaneh, the president of the Lebanese Red Cross, referred to "hundreds of wounded" in a statement on Lebanese LBC television, adding: "We are overwhelmed by phone calls." Lebanon's Prime Minister Hasan Diab has declared Wednesday a day of mourning, and President Michel Aoun called for "urgent" defence council talks. General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim has said this might have been caused by explosive materials confiscated years ago and stored at the city's port. "It appears that there is a warehouse containing material that was confiscated years ago, and it appears that it was highly explosive material," the senior security official said, adding that an investigation would be launc...

The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun appears to have bowed to pressure as he stopped the payment of N25,000 by students of private boarding schools for COVID-19 and malaria tests. Abiodun came under heavy criticisms parents of SS3 students in private boarding schools were made to realize on Sunday that they must pay a sum of N25,000 to get their children tested. Making a u-turn on Monday evening, the governor said, “After reviewing these developments, I have today immediately directed that the government laboratories carry out test for all returning SS3 boarding students at no cost. “I have also directed that all those who have paid for tests be refunded.” A statement personally signed by Gov Abiodun reads: “In line with the Federal Ministry of Education recommendation and WASSCE timetable, we decided to open our schools on the 4th August 2020 for SS3 students only. We put in place guidelines that would ensure that our students resume in a safe environment. “In our pre-openi...

UPDATED: Nigerian Combat Helicopter Pilot Arotile MISTAKENLY KILLED By Her Ex-Schoolmate - NAF Clarifies Arotile's shocking death came only eight months after she was commissioned as Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot. According to the Air Force spokesman, Ibikunle Daramola, Arotile "was inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force Secondary School classmate while trying to greet her." An earlier announcement made through the official Twitter account of the Air Force had simply stated that she "died today, 14 July 2020, as a result of head injuries sustained from a road traffic accident at NAF Base Kaduna.” Scores of Nigerians have continued to mourn her passing including President Muhammadu Buhari who described her as a promising officer, whose short stay on earth impacted greatly on the nation, especially in peace and security. The President in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, saluted ...

Nigeria Police operatives have rescued an American lady confined in a Lagos hotel where she was held against her wish for over a year. Force spokesman, Frank Mba, made this known in a statement on Sunday. The victim, from Washington DC, is a retired civil servant in the United States. She arrived Nigeria on 13th February, 2019 on a visit to a Nigerian, Chukwuebuka Kasi Obiaku. The 34-year-old is a native of Ikeduru LGA of Imo State. The duo met on Facebook. The victim was freed by agents attached to the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Ogun State annex. The operation followed information received from a Nigerian in the Meiran area of Lagos State. The Police described Obiaku, a graduate of Business Administration and Management, as an internet fraudster who has defrauded many both locally and internationally. He lured the America to Nigeria under the pretext of love and deceitfully married her on 15th May, 2019. The suspect subsequently held her captive in a hotel and extorted a total ...

" Nigeria's image has been dented so bad that multiple institutions abroad, especially in Dubai, have begun rejecting Nigerians who are applying for school or jobs. To prevent Nigerians from applying at all, a number of these companies added a clause in their job adverts stating that candidates of every nationality can apply except Nigerians. A vacancy for merchandisers was advertised by Shirley Recruitment Consultants in Dubai. However, they stated that they do not want Nigerians. "Male or female African candidates except Nigerians," one job advert from Dubai reads. Another reads: "Candidates of every nationality, except Nigerians, should apply." To make matters worse, Nigerian students are also affected. A Nigerian who applied to SANS Technology Institute in the US was denied admission because he stated that he's from Nigeria. A Nigerian applying for a tourist visa to Dubai also shared a screenshot of the rejection mail he got telling him that "N...

A woman has died after suffering severe burns while answering a call close to her cooking gas. Friends took to Facebook to share photos of her burns after the incident as they prayed for her to survive. Unfortunately, her health took a turn for the worse and she died. Her friends are mourning her on Facebook while warning people to desist from answering phone calls near a cooking gas.