The federal government has said that registration of Nigerians in the Diaspora, for the National Identity Number/Card (NIN), will kick off in its foreign missions and embassies soon. The CEO of the National Identification Management Commission (NIMC), Mr. Chris Onyemanam, has expressed optimism that the project...
A huge fire engulfed a warehouse and spread to a block of flats in east London this morning. Eight fire engines and 58 firefighters and officers dealt tackled the blaze at the disused warehouse in Grenfell Avenue in Hornchurch, which broke out at around 11.30am. The fire damaged half...
IDF Aluminium has installed transom closers, hook locks and armoured keeps from Alpro at a new-build Asda store in Wealdstone, north London. The supermarket opened in the summer and is a 9,000-sq-ft site with ‘click and collect’ for the company’s clothing range, a bakery and...
GJD, an award winning British manufacturer of professional external detector equipment and LED illuminators, today announced the debut of its white coloured Mini Opal external PIR detector. An inconspicuous detector with adjustable detection range and Lux level settings, the Mini Opal’s advanced technical features respond...
The leaders of the world's 20 most powerful countries have agreed to step up border controls and aviation security in the wake of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters on Sunday. The heads of the Group of...
Police investigating a wave of attacks in Paris launched an international hunt on Sunday for a man they believe might have helped organize the deadly assaults with two of his brothers in Belgium. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Friday's coordinated suicide bombings and shootings,...
Britain unveiled plans on Wednesday for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit, measures ministers say are vital to keep the country safe but which critics denounce as an assault on freedoms. Across the West, debate about how to...
British manufacturing grew in September at the fastest monthly pace since April 2014 and the trade deficit narrowed, according to figures that provided some hope a slowdown in the world's economy might not drag down Britain's. The data were released a day after the Bank of...
Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team told Reuters on Sunday. The Airbus (AIR.PA) A321 crashed 23...
Could the ground beneath our feet be a goldmine – or is it just property market madness that led a woman to spend £150,000 on a plot of land beneath a 1930s Bloomsbury apartment block? It is, essentially, nothing more than a compacted collection of mud,...
