The French city of Lyon on Tuesday, December 8, paid tribute to the 130 victims of Paris attacks by lighting up the names on buildings lining the Saone Rivers. The first name of the victims was lit up in a giant hand-written scrawl as thousands looked on. Do you see the Madonna projection on top? (more…)
A new challenge to Jamaica’s law criminalizing homosexuality was filed with the country’s Supreme Court on November 27, more than a year after a man challenging the law withdrew his case citing threats against himself and his family. The new suit is being brought by Maurice Tomlinson, a gay Jamaican attorney who received death threats after a local newspaper published a photograph of his marriage to his Canadian partner in 2011. The country’s attorney general, who is named as the plaintiff, was served with notice of the suit on Tuesday. It will be formally anno
The World Bank has urged President Buhari to remove petroleum subsidy now as the price of crude oil has declined drastically. The position of the World Bank was made known by the bank's leader Economist, John Litwack at the launch of the new edition of Nigeria Economic Report, the World Bank’s Lead Economist.He said the best time to remove fuel subsidy is now when global crude oil price is at its lowest level, noting that the Bank foresaw continuous decline in global crude oil price. (more…)
Tyson Fury has been stripped off the IBF title he won two weeks ago after former title holder Wladimir Klitschko exercised a clause entitling him right to a rematch if he so deemed fit. Fury beat long-standing champion Vladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf last month to bring the Ukrainian's four belts back to Britain. The IBF insists Fury should fight challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov and opened up a bidding process for its purse two days after Fury's victory.The bidding which was supposed to take place on December 11 has now become irrelevant after Klitschko exercised a claus
The Minister of Information and Tourism, Lai Mohammed at a press conference in Abuja yesterday, said that no person sponsoring Boko Haram or stealing public funds will go unpunished. "The dilemma of government is how to redress the past wrong. What I want to assure you is that nobody, who is responsible for this situation either by sponsoring Boko Haram or stealing our resources, will go unpunished. That I can assure you. But we will follow due process.”he said Lai Mohammed addressed claims in some quarters that the Nigerian government was careless in the prosecution of
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