Ola Raji, a 20-year-old young Nigerian was stabbed to death last week Tuesday while cycling through an estate in Peckham, near a community centre founded in memory of murdered schoolboy, Damilola Taylor. Reports have it that the young man was shot three times and stabbed by two men who ambushed him around 10.30pm. The men…
CIBN Wins 22nd WCBI Hosting Right
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria has won the right to host the 22nd World Conference of Banking Institutes, WCBI, which will take place in 2017. The biennial conference for all the banking institutes across the globe commenced in Edinburgh Scotland, in 1975, as part of activities to commemorate the Centenary celebrations of the…
UK Consecrates First Female Bishop
The Church of England has consecrated its first female bishop at a ceremony held in York Minster on Monday. The new female bishop, Libby Lane, 48, has been ordained the new Bishop of Stockport in a ceremony that was attended by more than 1,000 people. The Church formally adopted legislation last November to ordain women…
London Airspace Reopens with Restrictions
The London airspace which was closed earlier in the day due to a computer failure, has been reopened with some restrictions. This development was announced in a message released by Eurocontrol, the UK’s flight safety agency. Announcing the closure of the airspace earlier in the day, Eurocontrol said, “There has been a failure of the…
The Trauma of Child Abuse
The video seems ordinary enough. A woman is feeding a baby and sometimes she feeds herself from the baby’s food. This is typical of most mothers. Then as the woman stops feeding, the child sits up and vomits the food. The woman then throws the baby on the floor, hits her several times with what…
Oil Spill: Shell Admits False Claims In UK Court
Documents before a United Kingdom, UK court have revealed that Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has at different times made false claims about the impact of major oil spills in the Bodo area of Gokana Local Government, Rivers State. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Amnesty International. The statement said…
The Challenges of Depression
Depression is a nasty devil, a silent killer that sucks the life out of the best people. It can be described as an internal time bomb that bedevils mercilessly till one is overcome by it. Drugs and alcohol often exacerbate depression. Unfortunately, the best of us can suffer from depression. We can get depressed after…