ANGRY mob on Thursday hurled water
sachets and stones at a tent under which the Senate President, Bukola
Saraki and some other dignitaries sat, at the Eid-el-Kabir prayer ground
in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.
Friday, 25 September 2015
Don’t assess Buhari yet –PDP BOT scribe
Sen. Walid Jibrin, the Secretary, Board of Trustee of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), has observed that 100 days of the present administration in office are not enough yardstick to assess its performance.
In an interview with news men on Friday in Nasarawa, he urged Nigerians to give the administration more time before any assessment.
I slept on bare floor for four days – Olu Falae
A former Secretary to the Government of
the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, says he slept on bare floor for the
four days that he was held in kidnappers’ den.
Falae, who 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.”
Tragedy in Mecca • 717 die in Hajj stampede
No fewer than 717 pilgrims were killed on
Thursday, while 863 were injured during a stampede which occurred at an
Islamic event held in the city of Mina, about two miles from Mecca,
Saudi Arabia.
The event was one of the last rituals of the Hajj season, an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, which is known as “stoning the devil.”