University of Ilorin, Student Union Senate, elected her principal officers at the first Senate sitting, on 31st August, 2017. The Deputy Senate Clerk was vied for, by Sen. Abdulkareem Habibat, Faculty of Education. Total number of votes cast is 49 for Sen. Habibat a.k.a D'Light, with 42 valid votes and 7 void votes. Senate President declares Sen....

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday pushed back on the perception that he disagrees with the president on the best strategy to handle tensions with North Korea. President Donald Trump on Wednesday implied that diplomacy with North Korea is over, tweeting that “talking is not the answer.” When asked about the tweet 🐦 hours later, Mattis seemed...

Observation Is Successful _Being a valedictory address in commemoration of SU Transition Program/Oath Taking Ceremony_ Protocol 1. Fellow Unilorites, today being the 31st of August 2017, marks another watershed in the history of not only our Union but also the most sought after, most peaceful and most stable Nigerian University – the Better by...

Reedof inaugural speech The newly elected Unilorin SU President, tag his era Together, we can. excerpts... ...the WiFi service can be improved or made optional... ...our administration is at a very sensitive time, during a great transition... UCJ, UNILORIN © ...

Kim Kardashian comment about President Trump, says "Anyone can run the U.S. better. My daughter would be better," the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star said in a new interview with Harper's Bazaar Arabia. "We've worked so hard to get where we were and to have so many things that we were so proud of in our country, to just literally revert backwards...

The U.N. human rights chief denounced President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on major news organisations, saying "demonization" of the press can endanger journalists. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein also made his first public comments decrying racist and anti-Semitic cries by far-right groups in Charlottesville violence, calling the events on its streets...

Cameroon banned people from watching a popular television station that says it represents the interests of the English-speaking population. Cable TV providers were told they will be sanctioned if they do not stop broadcasting the South Africa-based channel, SCBC. But content can still be viewed online. There have been months of protests by Cameroon's...

President Muhammadu Buhari welcomed the victorious D’Tigress in Abuja. He met with the Basketball Team at the council chambers on Wednesday morning, a few days after they won the Afrobasket Championship title for the first time in 12 years in Mali. President Buhari also disclosed that each player will receive the sum of a million naira while the officials...

Tuesday and Wednesday morning were a little disheartening 💔 for Trump, especially since he was watching Hurricane Harvey's devastation and relief efforts from Texas. Apart from that, a sly threat ⚠️ from North Korea and the Fake News 📰 seem to have only dampened his mood further, so much that he's barely been tweeting! 🐦 The U.S. has been talking...

The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry are to pay tribute to their mother on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death, amid scented roses and other favourite flowers in a new memorial White Garden at Kensington Palace. A Kensington Palace spokeswoman said the garden visit would “allow the princes to pay tribute to the life and work of their mother...

President Donald Trump said, "talking is not the answer" when it comes to North Korea -- contradicting a statement from his top diplomat that the US will continue to seek a peaceful resolution to tensions with Pyongyang. "The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!" Trump tweeted...

Evidence emerged to further back up the, story that Kano law professor Mamman Lawan, who was nominated to the board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by President Muhammadu Buhari, is embroiled in corruption, abuse of privilege and professional misconduct issues. Available court documents now categorically identify Mr. Lawan as...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, chaired his first cabinet meeting since returning from sick leave in Britain this month. Buhari returned to Nigeria on Aug. 19 after more than three months in London for treatment for an undisclosed ailment. Last week he cancelled a cabinet meeting, raising concerns that the president, criticized...

Prices of rams jerked up in some markets in the Federal Capital Territory in spite of low patronage few days to the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. A check at the livestock market in Kuje, Abaji, and Kwali showed that in spite of the availability of all sizes of rams, there were very few buyers. Several rams were seeing...

“Katy [Perry] is pretty upset about how everything went down at the VMAs. She agreed to be the host and thought it was her big night, only to have it stolen by Taylor [Swift]. Taylor didn’t have to premiere the video then, but she wanted to hurt Katy. In Katy‘s eyes it just proves once again what she always felt — Taylor is the biggest mean girl...

Here's a Blade Runner 2049 prequel short film “in-world” piece that explains what happened in the world of Blade Runner between the first movie, set in 2019, and this sequel, set in 2049. The short film "Nexus: 2036" takes place in the year 2036 and revolves around Jared Leto’s character, Niander Wallace. In this short, directed by Luke Scott (Morgan),...

Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping before a judge of the Ikeja High Court. Evans and five others were arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping. The judge ordered that all the male defendants be remanded at Kirikiri Maximum Prison while...

Nicki Minaj: "If I was the ref the MVP would get to suck my toes while the losing team wrote "Barbie Wins Again" 500 times in their notes." UCJ, UNILORIN. ...

The former Queen of Ife, Olori Wuraola confirmed the end of her marriage to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. Her post partly read, “What I can confirm is that the Ooni and I are no more. I inhale love and exhale gratitude...No matter how much time you’ve invested, no matter the use of media to silence & manipulate, no matter the...

If you're around Dupont Circle in Washington DC today, prepare yourself to see something out of the ordinary - the Trump rat. The rat balloon was made by artist John Post Lee, after Trump's victory in November. "I wanted to do something meaningful, and also something cathartic to help myself," said Lee. "This is what I know — I know how to help artists...

25/08/2017 11:00am           For every known beginning must have an end,evolving and transition is a compulsory process in completion of life cycle.          The incoming executives of the students' Union wish to notify the general Better by Far Community of the Inauguration...

28/08/2017 On behalf of the Student Union, we wish to express our profound joy on the success of the University Council in appointing a new Vice Chancellor to succeed our amiable Vice Chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali OON. It is our believe that Prof. Sulyman Age Adbulkareem will carry on with the good work of the outgoing Vice Chancellor. His...

Phillipe Coutinho to Barcelona: This is a saga that has gone on for a while. The Brazilian wants to go but the Reds want at least another season from their talisman. Barca are desperate. This could go either way. Gareth Bale to Man United - Reports suggest that Bale is unsettled and that the Welshman would prefer a move back to the league where he...

Here are details on University of Ilorin, screening and post screening: RegistrationAspirants are advised to enter their details carefully and accurate. Registration Opens on 28th August till 8th of September, 2017. PUTME Aspirants can only pick either Ilorin or Lagos, as venue for their examination. SCHEDULE Aspirants are advised to be punctual to...

A couple in North Dakota are facing murder charges over allegations they killed a pregnant woman to claim her baby as their own. Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, 22, was eight months pregnant when she went missing on 19 August. Her body was found by kayakers in the Red river on Sunday, wrapped in plastic and trapped by a log. Her death has been preliminarily...

A federal judge dismissed former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's defamation case ⚖ against the New York Times newspaper.📰 The Times editorial, in discussing links between violence and "heated political rhetoric" cited a map published by Sarah Palin's political action committee, which it said featured crosshairs "targeting" 20 Democrat politicians. Mrs...

Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, lashed out at Israel's 🇮🇱 illegal settlement activity, calling it a "major obstacle" to achieving a two-state solution and peace with the Palestinians. "There is no plan B to the two-state solution," he said on Tuesday after meeting Palestinian 🇵🇸 Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in the West...

A woman, Chioma Pius, accused men of the Rivers State Police Command of assaulting her for having tattoos on her body. Pius, who claimed to be travelling in a cab from Bayelsa to Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, said she was stopped by the policemen at Elebrada Junction, Emohua, Rivers State. She alleged that after introducing herself to the...

Only 40.3 per cent of constituency projects were completed in 2016 in 20 states, a civic technology organization, BudgIT Nigeria disclosed. The organization, which is interested in ensuring transparency and accountability in government budgets, said it tracked 852 projects across 20 states between June 2016 and June 2017.    The states...

Humanitarian workers pulled out of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The decision followed the outbreak of violence in the camp during a protest by the IDPs over the quantity of food brought in for distribution. The Gubio Road IDP camp is home to displaced persons from 11 local governments of the...

Game of Thrones season seven may be over, but fans of the hit show don't have to wait until next season to get their fill of GoT content. HBO has released the first of a seven-episode, behind the scenes series about the latest season called The Game Revealed. Viewers will be get an inside look at how the latest season came together through interviews...

This is a rare account of President Trump in a small Oval Office meeting, venting at senior staff for sometimes resisting his hawkish trade agenda. During Gen. Kelly's first week as Chief of Staff. Kelly convened a meeting 🔊 to discuss the administration's plans to investigate 🔍 China 🇨🇳 for stealing American intellectual property and technology...

The Headquarters of the United States Department of Defence, the Pentagon, informed the US Congress of the sale of 12 Super Tucano A-29 ground attack aircraft and weapons to Nigeria to fight the Boko Haram insurgency. Reuters reported that the Pentagon communicated the sale of the 12 ground attack aircraft valued at $593m (N181bn) to the US Congress...

Atletico Madrid may wait till the final hours of the transfer window to secure the signing of Chelsea striker Diego Costa, as they have thus far failed to reach the £40 million asking price of the Stamford Bridge club. Los Rojiblancos remain hopeful they can make a deal for the Premier League champions' top scorer from last season, but they have been...

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed refuted insinuations that government may be trying to stifle freedom of expression in the country. He stated that rather, the government is working at curbing hate speech which has been on the rise. The Minister made this known during an interview on Channels Television’s Breakfast Programme, Sunrise Daily....

National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, stated in its latest report released yesterday, that food price pressure continued into July as all major food sub-indexes increased, with food inflation in the country rising by 20.28 percent year-on-year (YoY) in July. According to the NBS, this represents the highest year-on-year increase in food prices since...

United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines and American Airlines each say they've airlifted supplies into or people out of the city since Hurricane Harvey hit on Friday. Those restrictions cover 1,200 square nautical miles over the city and are intended to keep airspace clear for search and rescue flights, the FAA said. United said it...

Antoine Griezmann's former agent claimed that the star forward would certainly have joined Manchester United had Atletico Madrid not received a transfer ban. The France international was a target for the Premier League club in the early weeks of the transfer window and was reportedly the subject of a bid of close to €100 million. Griezmann, who was...

A Republican lawmaker put forth an amendment that would stop funding for the special counsel’s Russia investigation 180 days after it becomes law. The amendment from Rep. Ron DeSantis would also prevent special counsel Robert Mueller from probing “matters occurring before June 2015,” which is the month Trump announced his presidential bid. The amendment...

North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan was a prelude to more military operations directed at the American territory of Guam, North Korean state media warned. The country's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported leader Kim Jong Un presided over the dawn launch Tuesday of the "ultra-modern rocket system," the first missile ever fired from...

Kim Kardashian says she will “treasure forever” a new magazine cover photo shoot 📷, in which she’s dressed up like Jackie Kennedy while posing with daughter North West. But not all her followers on Twitter 🐦 are so crazy about her look for the cover of Interview, which proclaims her to be “America’s New First Lady.” For one thing, some people say...

Tanzania is set to launch the world's largest drone delivery network in January, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save the lives of women giving birth and children struck by malaria, in a country larger than Nigeria. California's Zipline will make 2,000 deliveries a day to more than 1,000 health facilities across the...

Nigerian Meteorological Agency predicted localised thunderstorms over the Central States of Kwara, Niger, Abuja, Nassarawa, Jos and Kaduna on Wednesday morning. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office, on Tuesday in Abuja also predicted cloudy conditions over some parts of the region in the morning. It added that the central states...

US President Donald Trump said, North Korea's latest missile launch signals "contempt" for its neighbours and the UN. He said the North would only increase its isolation and that "all options" were on the table. The north released a missile 🚀 yesterday, which flew over northern Japan's Hokkaido island before crashing into the northern Pacific Ocean....

Chelsea signed Kylian Hazard, the younger brother of star winger Eden. Kylian, 22, is four years younger than his decorated sibling, who has won two Premier League titles, the League Cup and the Europa League at Stamford Bridge, as well as Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France for Lille. Kylian Hazard joins Antonio Conte's side from Hungarian side Ujpest...

South African minister criticised African leaders who seek medical treatment abroad. Aaron Motsoaledi condemned "health tourism" while speaking in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe, who frequently receives treatment in Singapore, had left the meeting of health ministers when Dr Motsoaledi made the comments. Mr Mugabe's spokesman has said that the...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that President Donald Trump, "speaks for himself" when asked whether the President's response to the violence ⚔ in Charlottesville, Virginia, raised questions about Trump's values. The brief remark from the top Cabinet official appeared to be the latest subtle sign of a gap between Tillerson, a former globe-trotting...

A Michigan woman was sentenced ⚖ to life in prison for the shooting her husband in a crime apparently witnessed by the man's pet parrot. Glenna Duram of Sand Lake learned her sentence Monday after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder and a felony firearm charge last month. Forty-six-year-old Martin Duram was shot five times in May 2015....

The authorities in Niger 🇳🇪 have ordered thousands of people to leave their homes in the capital, Niamey, because of serious flooding. Flooding is a recurrent problem in Niger, but this year more than 40 people died since the rainy season began in June. Buildings have also been destroyed, and key roads cut in several parts of the country. We've...

Fifty-seven rights groups from around the world on Tuesday demanded a United Nations inquiry into abuses in Yemen 🇾🇪, where an escalating conflict has killed thousands and fueled a humanitarian crisis. Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has been wracked by violence ⚔ since Houthi rebels and their allies seized vast tracts of territory, including...

South Korea's 🇰🇷 air force staged a live-fire drill simulating the destruction of North Korea's leadership, hours after Pyongyang launched a missile 🚀 over Japan. Just hours after the launch, South Korea's Presidential Office announced 🔊 four F-15K jetfighters had dropped eight MK 84 bombs on a simulated target at the Taebaek Pilsung Firing Range...

With the President busy addressing a natural disaster 🌊 and other issues, it looks like he hasn't had too much time to tweet 🐦! Late Monday and Tuesday saw him merely retweeting about Hurricane Harvey L️. The saving grace is his response to Laura Ingraham, a reminder that the President will soon be back on his game. 🐦➿ NWS Houston: Historic flooding...

Fire gutted the headquarters of a Sierra Leone opposition party, the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP). Mohamed Kamaraimba Mansaray, outspoken leader of the party, told a Reuters reporter in the that the fire was caused by a petrol bomb. He said the bomb was thrown into their offices in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Police have yet to comment...

Kit Harrington's character, Jon Snow 🐺, was revealed to be the nephew of Daenerys Targaryen 🐉, played by Emelia Clarke‼️ We found out that information during a scene where Jon and Dany made love 💟 for the first time! Emilia was asked to react to her character 🐉 making love 💟 to her nephew, Aegon Targaryen. “Ewwwww!” Emilia told EW. “I think that’s...

Google admitted that wide-spread connectivity issues in Japan were the result of a mistake by the tech giant. Web traffic intended for Japanese internet service providers was being sent to Google instead. Online banking, railway payment systems, as well as gaming sites, were among those affected. A spokesman said a "network configuration error" only...

When singer 🎤 Pink accepted the 2017 Vanguard Award 🏆 last night, she gave the most incredible speech. She recounted a conversation 🔊 she recently had with her 6-year-old daughter, Willow, one that many parents can probably relate to on some level‼️ The conversation was a great reminder of what it means to truly 💪 be our most authentic selves...

Katy Perry shares a laugh with her "Feels" collaborator Calvin Harris and Khalid while attending Calvin's 2017 MTV VMAs After Party 🎊 with director Emil Nava. The trio were also joined 👍 at the post bash by Jared Leto, who hit the main stage at the MTV VMAs with his Thirty Seconds to Mars bandmates earlier in the night to perform their new single...

A team of astronomers observed the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy is the most distant in which a coherent magnetic field has been observed and provides important insight into how magnetism in the Universe formed and evolved. The observation shows a magnetic field of a similar strength and configuration to...

Sarahah bills itself as a way to “receive honest feedback” from friends and employees. But the app is collecting more than just feedback messages. When launched for the first time, it immediately harvests and uploads all phone numbers and email addresses in your address book. Although Sarahah does in some cases ask for permission to access contacts,...

Despite all the epic performances 🎤 at the VMAs, some say the adorable celeb kids, who showed up as their parents' dates, MADE the night!🌃 We love 💟 how some celebs wanted to share their special night with their little ones, and they ended up turning the fun-filled night into a family affair - coordinating ensembles and everything! And when Pink...

You might remember Miley Cyrus's infamous VMA performance in 2013. The one where she twerked on Robin Thicke and showed us some really...creative moves‼️ It was Miley's way of telling the world 🌍 she was ~all grown up~ now — and the message ✉️ was received loud and clear! So last night, just hours before her performance 🎤 for the VMAs, she marked...

FOOTAGE of an ‘alien life form’ crawling along the ground left witnesses searching for answers of what it might be. Huang Meilan filmed the mysterious insect after it was seen creeping around rocks in Hsinchu, Taiwan on August 29. When asking the internet for advice, Ms Meilan said many people suggested the brittle looking creature was likely several...

Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales was condemned for his order to expel the head of the UN's anti-corruption mission in the country. The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the decision to expel Ivan Velasquez was profoundly worrying. Guatemalan prosecutors have accused Mr Morales of funding irregularities in the 2015 election. The UN has...

Court ⚖ seized $21m from bank accounts 💰 linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former oil minister who faces corruption allegations‼️ Abdulazeez Anka, federal high court judge, ordered the immediate forfeiture of the sum allegedly held in local bank accounts by Alison-Madueke, who was once one of Africa's most prominent female politicians. Nigeria's...

Adam Levine lashed out at the MTV VMAs on Twitter Sunday night, calling the annual fete “utterly horrible.” The Maroon 5 frontman was outraged after best new artist nominee JulIa Michaels' performance 🎤 was cut short 📺 on the telecast. “It’s always exciting to see how utterly horrible the VMAs will be. They really delivered so far this year,” Levine...

The Federal Government declared Friday, September 1 and Monday 4, 2017 as public holidays to mark the Id-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement on Monday in Abuja by the Director Overseeing the Office of the Permanent Secretary,...

1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of his law of induction. 1842 – The Treaty of Nanking, an unequal treaty ending the First Opium War, was signed, forcing the Chinese Qing dynasty to give control of the island that is now the site of Hong Kong, and other concessions to the British. 1903...

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A’, announced that it made a number of seizures amounting to over N783m between August 9 and 25, 2017. The Controller of the zone, Mohammed Garba, disclosed this while conducting journalists round the command’s warehouses where the seized items were kept. According to him, some of the items...

Lucas Vazquez was called up to the Spain squad to replaced injured winger Vitolo. "Yesterday morning in training, the player suffered a strain in the medial collateral ligament of his knee," the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) said in a statement on Monday.  "After consultation with the medical services of his club and those of the...

Well Hurricane Harvey took up most of President Trump's sunday, what with continuous posts 🐦 about how it is being dealt with and some news 📰 about it being a historic rainfall ☔️. He did have enough time, in between, to take a jab at the Governor of Missouri, asking Mexico 🇲🇽 to pay for the wall and then threatening ⚠️ them when they said no...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said the present administration has reached out to the United States government to step up its assistance in ensuring that corrupt officials do not have a safe haven in the US for their loot. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President spoke during...

Thousands of ATMs 💸 and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia 🇮🇩 went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a satellite belonging to state-controlled telecom giant PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom). Around 15,000 ground sites across Indonesia 🇮🇩 were affected...

Seven African and European leaders are meeting in the French 🇫🇷 capital, Paris, to discuss ways to stem the flow of migrants and refugees into Europe from northern Africa. French 🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron has invited ✉️ his counterparts from Niger and Chad as well as the head of the Libyan UN-backed government Fayez al-Sarraj, whose countries...