The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Friday confirmed that 38 persons, including seven crew members, were injured when a United Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Lagos on Friday morning. The Boeing 787-8 flight with 245 passengers was en route to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), in the United States, from the…
The Governing Council of Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has constituted a nine-member committee to investigate allegations of sexual harassment levelled against the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina. This decision follows a report by SaharaReporters detailing accusations made by a female staff member, Mrs. Folasade Adebayo, who alleged immoral advances by the Vice-Chancellor. In a…
In a peculiar and painful turn of events, a man in Alberta, Canada, found himself in an unimaginable predicament when his pen!s became stuck to frozen ice outside a bar. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, January 12, outside East Village Pub & Eatery in Fort McMurray, required the intervention…
Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films “New Jack City,” “Above the Rim” and “Sugar Hill,” has died. Cooper died Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to The Times. Additional details about his death, including a cause of death, were not immediately available. He was…
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday alleged that some retired military generals are responsible for illegal mining in the country. He said this when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, Senator Sampson Ekong, presented his committee’s 2025 budget recommendation for the Ministry of Solid Minerals…
