Honey to earn Nigeria $10bn

*HONEY

Mr. David Musa, the Team Leader, USAID Bee Keeping Pollination Project, says Nigeria can generate over 10 billion dollars from local and international trade in honey and other hive products. Musa disclosed this during an interview on the sideline of a Capacity Building Workshop for bee-farmers in Goshen, Nasarawa State on Thursday.

“Honey trade can generate up to 10 billion dollars if you look at cumulative values from honey and other hive products and the value of pollination,” he said.

Breakng: Notorious kidnapper, Evans sues IGP, three others over his continuous detention

EVANS

Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, the suspected billionaire kidnapper, has dragged the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and three others before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged illegal detention.

How to think like an entrepreneur

IF you are an entrepreneur, you need to think like an entrepreneur. If you are an employee working for a company who values entrepreneurial thinking, you need to think like an entrepreneur too. Here are some of the characteristics that make an entrepreneur.

Live: The Best Attacks Of Wild Animals 2017 - Craziest Animal Fights Caught On Camera

AMAZING!!!!!

Box Office: ‘Baby Driver’ Races to $2.1 Million in Tuesday Night Previews

Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver” sped to $2.1 million at 2,606 North American locations in Tuesday night previews.

Sony’s R-rated action-thriller, starring Ansel Elgort as a getaway car driver, expands to 3,150 sites Wednesday to get a head start on the Independence Day weekend. The studio is projecting an opening in the $13 million to $15 million range for the five-day Wednesday-Sunday period, while other projections have been in the $20 million area.

Tonto Dikeh and Olakunle Churchill’s Traditional Marriage Dissolved as Family Refunds Bride Price | WATCH

TONTO DIKE AND EX

The traditional marriage between Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh and Olakunle Churchill has been officially annulled as both families met recently in that regard.

Tonto and Olakunle’s marriage broke down amidst allegations of domestic violence, drug abuse, among others.

Dangote reacts to northern quit notice to Ndigbo

Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has condemned the recent quit notice given to Nigerians of Igbo extraction by some northern youths to leave the region before October 1st or face physical attacks.

 Alhaji Dangote, while condemning the hate speech against Ndigbo queried why such jobless youths were given relevance in the first place through reactions from well-meaning Nigerians.

The business mogul said, those youths were jobless and as such, only sought for relevance through threat.

According to him, “Some guys who have no relevance and values came out to issue a warning that Igbo should leave the North.

Venezuela Supreme Court attacked from helicopter

A police helicopter has dropped grenades on Venezuela's Supreme Court building and fired shots at the interior ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro called a "terror attack" against his government.

Information minister Ernesto Villegas said the stolen helicopter first fired 15 shots on the ministry in Caracas, the capital, as a reception was taking place on Tuesday.

It then flew a short distance to the Supreme Court building and dropped four grenades, two of them near the national guardsmen protecting the building.

Maduro said no one was injured as the grenades failed to detonate during the incident.

Insurgency: Cameroon repatriates 887 Nigerian refugees

About 887 Nigerian refugees from Cameroon on Tuesday arrived in Banki, Borno following a request from the Cameroonian government to Nigeria to facilitate their return.

Mr Hanson Tamfu, the External Relations Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Nigeria, made known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

Tamfu said that the request was prompted by fear and suspicions of the Cameroonian authorities that among the refugees might include some elements of Boko Haram.

Nigerian woman survives 10 days in Sahara Desert

Adoara, not real name, the Nigerian woman who survived 10 days in Sahara Desert

A 22-year-old Nigerian woman attempting to migrate into Europe via the harsh Sahara Desert survived after being abandoned by traffickers for 10 days.

The International Organisation for Migration said the woman, given the nickname Adoara, was the only female among the survivors of a rescue mission on May 28.

“She left Nigeria in early April hoping for a better future in Europe.

Amputee pastor fetes with 50 physically challenged in Nsukka

•Rev Jude Uchechukwu preaching

AN amputee pastor, Rev. Jude Uchechukwu of the World Liberation Assembly has proved that there is ability in disability even as he played host to about 50 physically challenged persons in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State. He opined that the physical challenged persons should not hong on begging at motor parks or the streets.

Rev. Jude made the assertion during the assemblage of physically challenged persons in Nsukka organised by the World Liberation Assembly (aka House of Liberty), explaining that the society should as a matter of necessity see and treat the disabled persons as equal human beings who could be offered good jobs irrespective of their disability, acquire skills in hair dressing, shoe making, soap and  beads – making among others to eke out a means of livelihood than begging for alms at motor parks and streets of the country.

South Africa government blamed as millions live in shacks

South Africa is one of the largest industrial economies in Africa, but up to 10 million people live in shacks in informal settlements.

Some residents say been waiting decades for government housing programmes to help them.

Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Source: Aljazeera

Facebook hits two billion user mark

Five years after hitting the one billion mark, the social media giant founded in 2004 hit another milestone.

The social media network giant Facebook says its ranks of monthly active users have hit the two billion mark -or more than a quarter of the world's population.