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Sanate president Abubakar Bukola Saraki received the document containing President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees from the Chief of Staff to Mr. President, Abba Kyari (with cap), and the Special Adviser to Mr. President on National Assembly (Senate) Sen. Ita Enang.after the Long awaited ministerial nominees list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s failed to reach the National Assembly on Wednesday as widely expected before adjournment of plenary. The Senators, who had eagerly awaited the list, adjourned plenary to Tuesday next week.

Six 'doomsday asteroids' will speed past Earth today - including one NASA noticed just TWO ll Conspiracy theorists hoping tomorrow's cosmic close call will finally bring about the apocalypse which was predicted to happen in September  Six massive space rocks will zoom past Earth today, providing conspiracy theorists with their last chance of witnessing the apocalypse which had been predicted for September. Some of the rocks are so huge that one direct hit on London would destroy the whole city. Luckily, the six asteroids are set to brush past Earth , although one 49 metre object called Asteroid 2015 SZ2 will come within just 316,000 miles of our planet. This cosmic close shave is made more terrifying by the fact the space rock was only spotted two weeks ago, according to this tweet from Ron Baalke , a "space explorer" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A 17-year-old wanted to take a Selfie 'falling' off the rooftop of a 9-storey building, according to local media reports The schoolboy has fallen to his death after trying to take an 'extreme selfie' on a ninth-floor rooftop with his friend. The 17-year-old student apparently climbed to the top of a building in Vologda, Russia, with a companion one evening last week with the intention of creating a photo of himself dangling off the towering structure. Armed with rope and his phone, he approached the edge of the rooftop in the fading light and lowered himself over it. But seconds later, the rope gave way and he The jobless stupid boy fell off. Readmore: here

Nigeria's President Buhari is to take individual charge of the nation's urgent oil sector, his spokeperson said on Tuesday, as a due date lingered for him to at long last assign his ministers. Reports from New York, where Buhari has been going to the UN General Assembly, cited the president as saying he would be take charge of petroleum Ministry, with an assitance assuming responsibility of everyday issues in the segment. "Affirmed. He said as much," his spokeman Femi Adesina told AFP in an instant message, without giving further points of interest.

The long awaited list of miniaters  is ready, and President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the prized document should be submitted immediately to the Senate, which resumes from its six-week break, today. The list was said to contain the names of people like former Rivers State Governor, Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi; a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Rotimi Akeredolu; former Army Chief, Lt-Gen. Abdurrahman Dambazzau, and activist lawyer, Femi Falana, among others.Buhari-Minister It was gathered, yesterday, that President Buhari handed the list to his Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, and directed him to forward it to the Senate President. Therefore, Senate President, Bukola Saraki will tomorrow formally present Buhari’s ministerial list to senators.

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Trinidadian Jack Warner, once one of the most powerful men in soccer, has been banned from all football-related activities for life, the ethics committee of world governing body FIFA said on Tuesday. Warner, 72, was one of 14 soccer officials and sports marketing executives who were indicted in the United States on May 27 on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges involving more than $150 million in payments. In the latest twist in the corruption scandal, Swiss authorities said last week they were investigating FIFA President Sepp Blatter on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds.

As the tragic incidence at the 2015 Hajj, is still a shock to many, Alhaji Uba Mana, the Director, Public Affairs of the commission, said 244 Nigeria pilgrims had been declared missing. Mana said 71 pilgrims were injured as against the 61 pilgrims earlier announced by the commission. He said of the 64 deceased pilgrims, 46 were transported to Saudi Arabia by state pilgrims’ welfare agencies and 18 by private tour operators. Mana also said that 12 of the 71 injured pilgrims were transported to Saudi Arabia by tour operator and 59 by state pilgrims’ welfare agencies. He said the deceased were from Adamawa,Bauchi, Borno, Ekiti, Jigawa, FCT, Cross Rivers, Gombe, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kaduna, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Plateau, Rivers Sokoto, Yobe, Taraba, and Zamfara. NAN recalls that more than 749 pilgrims were reported to have died, and 805 others injured, during Thursday’s stampede on the way to the Jamrat complex (stoning site) in Mina, Saudi Arabia: NAN

"Olu Falae, was released on Thursday after being kidnapped allegedly by some Fulani herdsmen on Monday, on his farm in Ilado village, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, described his experience as “hell.” In his discussion with the state Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, who paid him a visit at his Oba Ile residence, Falae said his abductors were unreasonable in their demand. He said, “When I told the kidnappers that my family could raise N2m for ransom against the N100m they demanded, they rejected it and told me, ‘Is it Boko Haram you are giving N2m to?’” After being released, the septuagenarian said he trekked several kilometers from his farm to a hotel in Owo town, where he met security agents that took him home. It was like a biblical triumphant entry for the elder statesman as he was cheered by scores of his friends, family and people of Ilu Abo town, where he is a traditional ruler. All efforts to speak personally with Falae were prevented by his hostile children.

  The Code of Conduct Tribunal has adjourned Senate President, Bukola Saraki’ s trial till October 21st

The Director of Press, Ministry of Interior, Yusuf Isiaka Alhaji on Monday,  announced     The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Abubakar Magaji, enjoined all Muslim faithfuls and Nigerians from all walks of life to extend the religious benefits of the Id-El-Kabir festival, which includes love, peace, empathy and tolerance to one another for the overall development of the nation.

Naija drama , the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja has ordered the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Solomon Arase and other relevant security agencies in ‎the country to arrest the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. In a ruling this afternoon, the tribunal headed by Justice Danladi Umar issued a bench warrant against Saraki following his refusal to appear in court to face a 13-count criminal charge that was preferred against him by the Federal Ministry of Justice.  FG had through a deputy director in the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. M.S. Hassan, asked the tribunal to order Saraki’s arrest. ‎Saraki who was billed for arraignment this morning, sent his team of lawyers to serve the tribunal with a copy of the ruling of Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, which summoned the Ministry of Justice to appear on Monday to show cause why the trial should be allowed to proceed. Equally summoned by th

When they say Surgeons forget things in patients bodies, i use to doubt it, but this shocking story proved me wrong, a Nigerian pilgrim arriving in Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj (pilgrimage) next week got the shock of his life when he was told there is a big scissors inside his belly. Scan-Saudi-airport Man was going through metal detecting machine at airport in Jeddah when it bleeped. (Al Watan) The man was going through the metal detecting machine at the airport in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah when it bleeped. He was told by the police to get back, get rid of all metal items and go through the machine again. But the system never stopped screaming. “He was taken for a scan at the hospital and the big surprise was that it showed there is a big scissors inside his abdomen,” the Saudi daily ‘Al Wata’n said. “When he was told about it, the pilgrim got a shock. He said that he underwent a surgery nearly 15 years ago but never had any pain,” the paper added, without m