Buhari will leave for Turkey to attend D-8 Summit

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday depart for Istanbul, Turkey to participate in the ninth Summit of the Developing 8 (D-8) on Friday, October 20, 2017. Prior to the D-8 Summit, President Buhari, at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, will participate in an official working visit to Ankara, the capital city. […]

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‘Lagos emerges third world’s worst cities for drivers’

(FORBES) You may think traffic is bad and motorists are rude where you live, but if you’ve ever traveled abroad and rented a car, you know there’s more than just language barriers to surmount while traversing international roads. After, say, about the fifth or sixth time spent circling the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile in […]

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Twin blasts near Istanbul soccer stadium kill 29, wound 166

Twin attacks by a suicide bomber and a car bomber near an Istanbul soccer stadium Saturday night killed 29 people and wounded 166 others in the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security threats. The bombs targeted police officers, killing 27 of them along with two civilians, Turkey’s Interior Minister […]

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Turkey: ‘IS suicide bomber’ kills 10 in Istanbul; Sultanahmet district

A suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) group has killed 10 people, at least nine of them German tourists, in a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish city of Istanbul, officials say. They say the Syrian national carried out the attack in the Sultanahmet district, near the famous Blue Mosque. Fifteen people were wounded, […]

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