At least 28 Pakistani pilgrims en route to Iraq for an Islamic religious ritual were killed as their bus crashed in central Iran, state media reported early today. “A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned and caught fire in front of Dehshir-Taft checkpoint in the central province of Yazd on Tuesday night,” state TV reported. “28 […...
•Cache of arms and ammunition imported from Turkey The Nigeria Customs Service said its operatives intercepted nine containers carrying offensive items including arms, ammunition, Illicit drugs and second-hand clothes worth N13.9 billion. The Comptroller-General, NCS, Adewale Adeniyi disclosed this today while addressing journalists in Onne Po...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a male passenger carrying 4,000 tramadol pills at the Muhammad Murtala International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. This is contained in a statement by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, yesterday in Abuja. Babafemi said that NDLEA officers at the gate ‘C ‘depa...
•An escapee Chibok girl with children (left) and Borno Governor Zulum (center) It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a decade. In her home in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city at the heart of 15 years of fighting by the armed […]
•The burning passenger plane A Japan Airlines plane was in flames as it landed on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport yesterday evening. It had collided with a coast guard aircraft, reports AFP. Meanwhile, according to BBC, footage on broadcaster NHK showed flames coming out of the windows of the aircraft. Also, beneath the Japan […]

