Stephen McGowan, the South African who was kidnapped by al Qaeda from the Mali tourist town of Timbuktu in 2011, has been released and is back home, foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday. McGowan, who had been touring Mali on motorbikes with a German, a Swede and a Dutch
The money making scam, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), that collapsed months ago, has launched a weekly promotional stunt, obviously aimed at wooing old and unsuspecting new ‘investors’. A letter displayed on the pages of participants of the scheme, urges them to invite new members. Members must invite new participants and register them as referrals to […]
Nigerian pirates have kidnapped five crew members, three of them from Morocco, from a general cargo vessel identified as the Panama-flagged Oya 1 around 15 nautical miles south west of Bonny Island. The kidnapping, according to World Maritime News, quoting Moroccan media, occurred 31 July. The attack was confirmed by IMB Piracy Reporting Centre. “The […]
The 19 Northern governors have kick-started a fund raising drive to reinvigorate the Bank of the North which was merged with some financial institutions about a decade ago. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State disclosed this while addressing members of the State’s Executive Council in Kano. Ganduje said that governors of 19 Northern states […]
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja House, London, Nigerian Tribune is reporting. The authoritative newspaper is also reporting that Obasanjo was accompanied on the visit by a former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Obasanjo was said said to have arrived Abuja House on on Saturday 9pm.
Indications have emerged that the Convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Aisha Yesufu, was forced to resign.Yesufu had tendered her resignation as the leader of the group, creating the impression that she was leaving willingly.She had on August 1, 2017 made the decision to quit her position public on her Twitter handle.She tweeted: […]








