Veteran journalist Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf has been confirmed dead among Nigerians who died in Thursday’s deadly stampede at the Jamarat Bridge outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
President Buhari has arrived New York ahead of the UN general meeting. His delegation includes former Rivers and Ekiti state governors, Rotimi Ameachi and Kayode Fayemi, former house of representatives member Abike Dabiri Erewa, SSA Household & Domestic Sarki Abba, SSA Media & Publicity Femi Adesina, Senator Hadi Sirika and others.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has condemned the disturbances by Gunners' fans following the end of Wednesday night's League Cup victory at Tottenham, and vowed the club will fully cooperate with the authorities to help identify those responsible.
Photo-based social media site Instagram has burst through the 400 million members landmark, after some 100m users signed up in the past nine months.
The California-based firm - which was snapped up by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion (£669m) - said it was "thrilled" by the milestone, and said the figure had seemed like a "dream" when it launched almost five years ago.
Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has spoken publicly about the trauma he went through after the road crash in Abuja involving his car and a vehicle belonging to the United States Embassy in Nigeria.
The Senator representing Bayelsa East, recently met ranking California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, with a call for better US-Nigeria relationships. He tweeted the picture thereafter only to be bashed for it
No fewer than 717 people, including Nigerians, taking part in theHajj pilgrimage were yesterday killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca.
Another 863 people were injured in the incident at Mina, which occurred as two million pilgrims were taking part in the Hajj’s last major rite.