naija news today 010918

An imprisoned Delta kidnap kingpin, Stanley Erujere has been rearrested by detectives alongside two prison warders who escorted him to a hotel for a meeting with his gang members. The Prison warders, DCIP Anthony Nketan, 55, and SPA Justice Oveto, 34 reportedly provided easy access for the...

The number of sexual abuse cases involving Catholic clergy in Chile has soared to 119, the public prosecutor’s office said Friday. A total of 167 bishops, priests and lay... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2N8ECJB Get more World News

Brazil’s imprisoned Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been banned from running for president in October after months of commotion that had tainted what is already the most unpredictable election in decades.... Read more via Bloomberg – https://ift.tt/2osaVoN Get more World News

Racist robocalls targeting Andrew Gillum, the first black nominee for Florida governor from a major party, have been placed to residents from an out-of-state white supremacist entity.... Read more via The New York Times – https://ift.tt/2wx6dK8 Get more World News

The Chairman of the Board of the Nigeria Postal Services (NIPOST), Maimuna Yaya Abubakar, has disclosed that the agency will be commercialised to make it efficient, competitive and profitable..... Read more via Thisdaylive Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2Pq7dHJ Get more: Nigeria Business News

Bishop Charles H. Ellis III was caught molesting Ariana Grande at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. In case you missed it: the Dangerous Woman... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2wzQvOu Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Davido has turned the NYSC orientation camp on Iyana Ipaja Road in Agege Lagos into an entertainment ground. The 3-week orientation at the... Read more via NaijaGistsBlog – https://ift.tt/2LMxQV1 Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Two days after Nigerian music superstar, Davido, turned the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) orientation camp in Lagos into a concert arena, he has left the venue for a musicial concert in the United States of... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2wyitux Get more Nigeria...

Mikel Agu has returned to Vitória Setúbal for another season long loan spell from FC Porto. Super Eagles midfielder Mikel Agu has... Read more via Pulse.ng – https://ift.tt/2PSRXnI Get More Nigeria Sports News

Serena Williams turned her 30th career meeting with her sister Venus into a one-woman showcase Friday, reaching the US Open fourth round with a 6-1, 6-2 victory. Reluctantly rising to an occasion neither... Read more via Daily Nation – https://ift.tt/2C7jW0i Get More Nigeria Sports News

A two–man advance party of the Nigeria Football Federation, led by the Director of Competitions, Mr. Ayobola Oyeyode, is set to depart for the capital city of Seychelles tomorrow for next week’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between the Super Eagles and the Pirates of...

The highlight of the Day 6 schedule is pretty much the entire slate at Arthur Ashe Stadium. U.S. Open champions Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic all hit the court and try and move into the... Read more via USA Today – https://ift.tt/2LKlE7f Get More Nigeria Sports News

Twenty one-year-old Katie Stubblefield has a brand new face. Her old face was destroyed when she sustained severe facial trauma from a gunshot wound on March 25, 2014..... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2orvvpd Get More Nigeria Metro News

A suicide bomber has killed two Iraqi policemen near a former bastion of the Islamic State group, days after IS claimed a similar attack near Syria’s border, a security official said on Friday. On Thursday morning a “suicide bomber wearing... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2PsFJ4r...

A 28-year-old farmer and father of three, Adeleke Adewusi from Ajilete community, Ogun State, was reportedly hacked to death at his cocoa farm by his workers. The two workers who killed the 28-year-old farmer... Read more via Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2PU1on5 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Lagos State Government has acquired a large land at Ojo for construction of a trailer park to tackle gridlock in Apapa and other areas caused by indiscriminate parking of articulated vehicles. The state Commissioner for... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2PUpiyI Get More Nigeria...

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has alleged there is a plot by President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to derail the September governorship poll in Osun state and the 2019 elections.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2PramHq Get...

Immediate past Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Justin Okonoboh, has expressed confidence that President Muhammadu Buhari will be re-elected into office in 2019. Speaking in an interview with... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2NAnF7W Get More Nigeria Political News

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come out to clarify the mode of primary election as according to the acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, Thursday’s resolution on the mode of primary election has been subject to... Read more via...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan may have given a head start to Attahiru Bafarawa, one of the dozen aspirants seeking the presidential nomination of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party when he declared that he.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2PVjFAb Get More Nigeria...