naija news today 030418

OLX, a classified ads platform, is launching a new overhauled app that will replace its website and mobile site. The web app was part of a global move to solidify the OLX’s number one position, a statement by the company said on Monday. Read more via Punch Newspapers –...

There is a need to enlighten taxpayers in order to enhance the level of tax compliance in the country, a tax professional has said. The Chairman, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Ikorodu District Society, Mrs. Abimbola Olumegbon, said professional bodies had the duty of educating the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the passing away of South-Africa’s anti-apartheid icon, Mrs Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, as a huge loss to Africa of a courageous woman. Read more via The Nation Nigeria – App Feed – https://ift.tt/2JdtG8J -- Get More Nigeria Political News

The South African Federation of Trade Unions lowers its flags in honour of Comrade Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, one of the great revolutionary icons of the struggle for freedom and democracy. Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela-Mandela was a tireless fighter against apartheid. Read more via Sahara...

Women react outside of the house of the late Winnie Mandela, the estranged wife of South Africa’s first black president, on April 2, 2018, in Orlando, Soweto. PHOTO: MUJAHID SAFODIEN / AFP Crowds of mourners on Monday flocked Winnie Mandela’s home in the heart of South Africa’s Soweto Read...

Software tycoon turned cryptocurrency enthusiast John McAfee recently revealed that he charges $105,000 for each tweet he sends out promoting digital coins or initial coin offerings (ICO). Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2pZxcuu Get more World News

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has reiterated that neither the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has the capacity to rescue Nigeria from the present political and socio-economic abyss. Obasanjo said despite the acclaimed reforms being...

A 15-year-old girl, Oluwakemi Abayomi, has disappeared from home after her mother, Mariam Lebi, reportedly scolded her for alleged immoral affair. PUNCH Metro learnt that Lebi had also planned to punish her, including changing her environment, when she did not return home. Read more via...

Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo Some soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force in Taraba State, codenamed, Operation Ayem Akpatuma (Cat Race) have allegedly beaten a 27-year-old man, Yusufa Haruna, to death at Mbamga, in the Sarduana Local Government Area of the state. Read more via Punch...

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said the Federal Government’s efforts at increasing rice and fertiliser production would guarantee President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2EfnbhR -- Get More Nigeria...

Israel has cancelled plans to deport migrants en masse to Africa after reaching a deal with the United Nations refugee agency. More than 16,000 asylum seekers will instead be resettled in Western countries, including Canada, Italy and Germany, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Read more...

Worried by the recent comments of former Deputy Senate president, Sen Ibrahim Mantu, indications have emerged that pressure is being mounted on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to slam the party chieftain for declaring that he aided the former ruling party to rig elections in...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday demanded an immediate proscription of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly financing President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign with looted funds. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP also gave the...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday in Lagos raised hope of that Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl still in the custody of Boko Haram terrorists, after the release of 105 other students of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, earlier abducted by Boko Haram...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has expressed his displeasure with the negative influence that social media has on governance in the country. Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/2pYXEEL -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Senate President, Bukola Saraki has dismissed report that he will contest the 2019 presidential elections. Speaking through his Special adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuf Olaniyonun, the senate President described the rumour as false. In a chat with Independent, Olaniyonun said “the report is...

Mrs. Bolanle Ambode greeting President Buhari while Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was blushing & feeling proud of his baby girl’s home training during his visit to Lagos last week. Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/2pYNp3a Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) the Yobe state chapter on Monday organised prayers for the release of the remaining Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu. Sharibu is among the over a hundred schoolgirls that were abducted on February 19, 2018, by the Boko Haram sect. Read more via...

The Police in Jigawa says a 17-year-old girl has committed suicide by drinking insecticide. Jigawa Police Command spokesman, SP Abdu Jinjiri, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Monday that the incident happened in Birnin Kudu Local Government Area of the state. Read more...

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) on Monday said reports that it had suspended issuance of the national identity card to Nigerians was untrue. Rather, collection of cards by persons who had completed the enrolment processes would commence from April 3, the agency said...