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                          The British High Commission,in its website,said the new service was to particularly meet the needs of those requiring urgent travelling service.The High Commission said the British High Commissioner,Paul Arkwright,hailed the introduction of the Super Prioty Visa service in Nigeria.He said ''I am pleased to see the Super Priority Visa service being launched in Nigeria,'' The News Agency of Nigeria {NAN} quoted the British High Commissioner as saying on the new visa service.''This comes with an additional cost but is designed to give greater flexibility to our customers and underlines our strong commitment to improving the visa services we offer.We expect this new sevice to be particularly useful for business.We understand that business opportunities and urgent requirements can arise at very short notice.We recognise this and want to facilitate such travel to the UK with this new super-fast service'...

                          According to sources,at least 15 inmates have escaped in a jail break at Nsukka Prison in Enugu.Although prison officials have not confirmed the exact number of inmates that escaped,sources said the inmates scaled the perimeter fence and escaped.The Comptoller of Prosons in Nsukka,Lawrence Okonkwo,confirmed the jail break.He said ''Yes there was a jail-break last night in Nsukka prison but I am not in a position to say how many prisoners escaped''.

                                                        Kylie Jenner posted a hot photo of herself today wearing a red bikini and she also dyed her hair red to match her bikini as she is getting ready to celebrate her 19th birthday in style in the Caribbean alongside her boyfriend Tyga.She captioned the photo above with a love  and ''19''.Then the photo below in which there is a red lipstick lips on her chicks,she just captioned it with a love symbol.Wow she look so good in that bikini.You like?.More photos below.                                    

                 Following a trip to Maiduguri at the center of the Boko Haram insurgency this week,USAID's Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance Director Jeremy Konyndyk announced $37 million in new funding to support additional humanitarian assistance for people affected by the conflict and severe food insecurity in Nigeria and throughout the Lake Chad Basin.At a press conference today wednesday at the Nigeria Emergency Management Agency,Konyndyk said the funding for assistance implemented by International NGO s and UN agencies brings the total USAID humanitarian support for the region to $318 million since last year.The United States is the single largest humanitarian donor to the region.''The United States is committed to supporting Nigeria to ease this humanitarian crisis,'' Konyndyk said,and help sustain this vulnerable population until they can resume livelihoods upended by conflict'''.Despite gradually improving security conditions,t...

                  According to PM News,Prof Babatunde Osotimehin,the Executive Director,UN Population Fund {UNFPA},says a Husband's School will be introduced in Nigeria to boost access to family planning and other reproductive health services.The excutive director made this known during an interactive session with the media in Abuja today wednesday.Osotimehin said he is in Nigeria to work with the Federal Government through its vatrious agencies looking at human developmemt through the intervention of family planing.He said ''I am talking about human development in the broad sense because most people restrict family planning to the context of saving the mother's life.Saving the mother's life component of family planning is also important,but family planning goes far beyond saving mother's life''.He explained the concept of the husbands school,which started in Niger Republic,was now replicated in many parts of Africa.He said a mentor would tal...

                The Lagos State Government has approved the renaming of Olokun Nursery and Primary School II,in Ilasamaja,Oshodi/Isolo Local Government of the State.A release by the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board said the school would henceforth he known as Dele Ajomale Nursery and Primary School,Ilasamaja.It noted that the renaming is in recognition of the contributions of Hon. Dele Ajomale to the Development of the school as well as the progress of education in the State.Recall that Lagos State Government had recently created three additional primary schools in order to ensure that basic education is available in all nooks and crannis of the State.

                        American-born Nigerian professional rower,Chierika Ukogu made history yesterday tuesday after qualifying for the semi-finals of rowing at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympics.The 23 year old Stanford graduate and soon to be medical student to the rowing semi-finals came in fifth in the third quarter final of the Women's single sculls in 7:54.44 secs.She is Nigeria's first ever rower in the Olympics to have got that far,the semi-finals will be on wednesday.''Heading into Rio,it's a really wonderful opportunity for Nigeria.This is the first time we've had an athlete at the Olympics in the sport of Rowing'',said Okungu to the Press.More photos below.                                                                           

                   Senate Presidebt,Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki today wednesday,urged security agencies in the country not to treat the rumours that Boko Haram terrorists are recruiting members from Internally Displaced Persons {IDP} camps in the Northeast with levity but to urgently investigate the issue to unravel those behind the menace,if any.In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity,Yusuph Olanniyonu,in Abuja,Saraki said it has become necessary for the nation's intelligence outfits to take such rumours seriously with the aim of curtailing the untoward development.He said ''Seeing that ISIS has been recruiting members from European refugee camps,and the Kenyan government recently had to shut down the world's largest refugee camp because Al-Shaabab was using the place to train and recruit young people as extremists,it is important that we take the rumours about Boko Haram recruiting from IDP camps seriously''.The Sena...