People & Places - Page 16

About 150 people have so far been rescued from the Independence Day boat mishap in which a wooden boat carrying over 300 people, mostly women and children Friday (September 28) capsized at Gbajibo community in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State.

A week after a wild hippopotamus attacked and killed a fisherman at Yauri River bank in Yauri Local Government Area of Kebbi State, another fisherman, Alhaji Dan Ya’u from Tunga Dan Ya’u has been savagely attacked by the animal at the same

A 46-year-old akara (bean cake) seller in Anambra State, Christopher Nwali, popularly known as Uyaka or Nwoke Akara Na Out, over the weekend escaped lynching by whiskers following rumours that he was dead and suddenly reappeared to resume his business. Narrating

Senior Israeli Air Force officials say the strike in Beirut yesterday killing Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah went smoothly with no errors or enemy fire on the IAF warplanes. “Everything we planned was executed precisely, with no errors, both in intelligence, the

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the February 25, 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi congratulated Bishop David Oyedepo, General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel, on his 70th birthday, describing him as an exceptional servant in God’s vineyard. In

Lebanese Foreign Minister, Abdallah Bou Habib yesterday (Thursday, September 26) called for an end to the violence in the Middle East, in an appeal to the UN General Assembly in New York. “This is a situation that requires international intervention on an