British Airways Observes Armistice Day With A 2 Minutes Silence!

British Airways joins the rest of the world to mark the Armistice Day with a 2 minutes silence at 11 am, a period during which all planes on the ground silenced their engines and all airport staff paused in their work. 

The Armistic Day which coincides with Veterans Day and Remembrance Day, is observed every year on 11th of November, at 11 am to mark the armistic signed between the World War 1 and Compiegne, France and Germany to end the hosilities on Western  Front of World War 1. 

The event took place on November 11th, 1918.

Nigeria's Ministers, Federal Executive Council Sworn In!

Finally, Nigerian Federal executive Council swears in 24 Ministers and Inaugurates new FEC at the Council Chambers, in Aso Rock, Abuja.

Some of the sworn in Ministers signing the Oath of Allegiance:




















List of Ministers Portofolio Below: 

• Kemi Adeosun (Ogun) – Finance
• Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers)– Transportation
• Chris Ngige (Anambra)– Labour and Employment
• Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti)– Solid Minerals
• Babatunde Fashola (Lagos)– Power, Works and Housing
• Abdulrahman Dambazau (Kano)– Interior
• Aisha Alhassan (Taraba)– Women Affairs
• Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)– Science and Technology
• Abubakar Malami (Kebbi)– Justice
• Hadi Sirika (Katsina)– State for Aviation
• Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa)– Water Resources
• Solomon Dalong (Plateau)– Youths and Sports
• Ibeh Kachikwu (Delta)– State for Petroleum
• Osagie Ehanire (Edo)– State for Health
• Audu Ogbeh (Benue)– Agriculture
• Udo Udo Udoma (Akwa Ibom)– Budget and National Planning
• Lai Mohammed (Kwara)– Information
• Amina Mohammed (Gombe)– Environment
• Ibrahim Usman Jibril (Nasarawa)— State for Environment
• Anthony Onwuka (Imo) – State for Education
• Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa) — FCT
• Adamu Adamu (Bauchi) — Education
• Okechukwu Enelamah (Abia) – Industry, Trade and Investment
• Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto) — State for Trade, Industry and Investment
• Khadija Bukar Abba (Yobe) – State for Foreign Affairs
• Claudius Daramola (Ondo) –  tate for Niger Delta
• Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu) — Foreign Affairs
• Monsur Dan-Ali (Zamfara) — Defence
• James Ocholi (Kogi) – State for Labour
• Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna) – State for Budget and National Planning
• Mustapha Shehuri (Borno) — State for Power
• Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa)– State for Agriculture
• Isaac Adewole Folorunsho (Osun) — Health
• Usani Usani Uguru (Cross River) — Niger Delta
• Abubakar Bwari Bawa (Niger) — State for Solid Minerals
• Adebayo Shittu (Oyo) — Communications

Buhari Appoints Permanent Secretaries!

List of Permanent Secretaries appointed by Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari into the Federal Civil Service, an appointment which starts with immediate effect.

Chartered Passenger Jet Crashed Into Buidling Killing 9 On-Board!

An estimated number of nine people including two were killed on Teusday, November 10th, when a 10-seater Hawker H25 jet, chartered by Execuflight, a Florida based company, crashed into a home and an apartment building in the midwestern city of Akron, Ohio at about 2.53pm. 

Information disclosed by authorities indicates that the business jet which took off from Dayton and was approaching Akron Fulton International Airport where it was due to land, was descending when it clipped an overhead wire, causing it to crash into a housing block, it then hit an embankment behind the house,  before bursting into flames, and setting the property on fire.

More bodies may be inside the twin engine business jet because the fire burning at the crash site prevented authorities from confirming how many were on board the passenger plane. No one was inside the small brick apartment building or the other home that caught fire, and there were no reported cases of injuries on the ground.

Governor Ambode's Picture Generates Memes!

This picture of Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode  accusting a commuter who broke traffic law by driving on a 'one-way' lane has been generating memes. 



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Armed Robber Caught By The Police At VGC - Lagos!

Picture of an armed robber caught in the early hours of Wednesday, November 11, at VGC, a high browse gated residential estate by the lagoon, in the Lekki Peninisula area, about fifteen minutes drive from Victoria Island, Lagos state.

The armed robber apprehended is a member of a robbery gang that attemped to rob a house in VGC, but the operation was halted by the estate security. The other gang members escaped, some with bullet wounds, but the man in picture was captured while hiding in a drainage, he was later handed over to the Police at Ajuwe, Ajah.  

Wild Fire In Indonesia's Protected Forests Threatens Wild Life!

Pictures of an emantiated mother Orangutan and her baby, clinging on tightly, after they were resucued by International Animal Rescue (IAR) volunteers, from wildfire which ravaged Borneo, Indonesia's island's forests.

The mother and child who were forced out of their forest home as a result of the fires, ended up in a village where frightened villagers threw things at the animals, then attempted to capture and tie the mother Orangotan up, before the IAR team got there in time to safe the terrified animals. The rescued duo were anaesthetised, translocated and released into a safe area of protected rainforest where they are being monitored by a conservation team to ensure that they are recovering well from their terrible ordeal.

The wild fire, which has scorched acres of protected forest was allegedly set by ranchers to clear land for farming, a situation described by Karmele Llano Sanchez, Program Director for IAR Indonesia, as a worst man-made ecological disaster of the century "This is a global environmental crisis and it is already considered by experts as the worst man-made ecological disaster of the century which will affect the lives of people the world over...". He said.
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