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Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has vowed that he will do everything possible to ensure that no part of the state is captured by terrorists and other armed groups under his watch. The Governor stated this at the wedding reception for Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ankor held at the Benue State...

An alleged chemical attack that left dozens dead in Syria’s rebel-held town of Douma sparked international outrage Sunday, with US President Donald Trump warning there would be a “big price to pay”. Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2GFmN2e Get more World News

German authorities investigating a deadly van ramming attack focused Sunday on mental health problems of the driver, as the city of Muenster mourned for the two people killed on a sunny afternoon at an open-air restaurant. “There are strong indications at the moment that this was a lone...

Brazil’s leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva served the first day of a 12-year prison sentence for corruption Sunday, but was already hoping for a way out through the courts this week, threatening to extend the drama ahead of presidential elections. Read more via TODAY.NG –...

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has advocated conditional pardon for Boko Haram.‎ Onaiyekan stated this while delivering his homily at a mass celebrated to jointly mark the Divine Mercy solemnity and the 2018 Mothers’ Day in Abuja on Sunday. He said: “A lot of...

A serving senator representing Jigawa North-east, Ubale Shitu, has vowed that Governor Abubakar Badaru will not be reelected in next general election due to his alleged graft and favouritism. Although both men belong to Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), they are political...

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose at the weekend said that he is supporting his Deputy, Professor Kolapo Olusola because he has been instrumental to the unprecedented achievement recorded by his administration in education, saying that such a feat must be sustain after the end of his...

About 11 Fulani herdsmen from Nasarawa State were on Saturday murdered in their cold blood in Yelwater, a border town in Benue State by men suspected to be Tiv militias. Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2Et9qMM Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) are fine-tuning plans to disburse N60 billion, being five per cent of their profit to buoy various developmental initiatives of the Federal Government. Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2GHc9YU Get more: Nigeria...

Facebook is currently seeing an existential crisis on a global scale over allegations that roughly 87 million of its users had their personal data harvested without consent by a data analytics company linked to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and AggregateIQ — the digital agency used...

ALMOST every pay-television subscriber I run into attempt, not often successfully, to speak with authority on how pay-television business works. Pay-television operations and business tend to be put in the same category as sex in which everybody thinks he/she is knowledgeable, an expert even...

The plan by the federal government to close the Ijora-Apapa Bridge in Lagos for “permanent repairs” will cost the country over N200 billion, if the bridge is blocked for two months. The government makes between N1.2 trillion and N1.3 trillion annually from the ports through the Nigeria Customs...

A Liberal Democrat and former British Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has called on the UK Home Office and National Crime Agency to explain themselves over the revelation that the country’s anti-money laundering agency allowed JP Morgan to transfer $875 million to a former Nigerian oil...

Ponder this … and weep. The United States, theoretically a mature democracy of 327 million souls, is ruled by a 71-year-old unstable narcissist with a serious social media habit. And the lawmakers of this republic have hauled up before them a 34-year-old white male, one Mark Elliot Zuckerberg...

It seems that the current economic meltdown in the country has made a man to try out a cheaper and local delicacy of lizard with with local abakaliki rice. A Facebook user identified as Che Oyinatumba, has taken to the social networking platform to share photos of himself eating a bowl of...

Businessman and publisher, Dele Momodu, has taken a swipe at the APC-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari. In his article titled, ‘The Reasons Nigeria Must Wake Up Fast’, he insists that the country needs a new orientation. “We need leaders who know their onions. We need modern leaders...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated winner of Sierra Leone’s President election, Brig. Julius Maada Bio (retd) who took charge Thursday as the country’s new leader. Bio who contested as the candidate of Sierra Leone People’s Party, SLPP, clinched victory by winning 51.81...

The Opposition party, PDP has warned citizens of Nigeria against reelecting Buhari in 2019. PDP National Chairman, Secondus who disclosed this during a rally in Katsina today added that Nigeria cannot endure another difficult four years under Buhari Also speaking at the rally, a PDP presidential...

A Facebook user has shared horrible pictures of how Suya meat are being prepared in an dirty and unhygienic environment. According to him, one needs to think twice before eating the spicy skewered cow meat. The dirty environment and poor or zero hygiene conditions in which Suya is made and...

If you live in a rented apartment in Lagos, there are some unwritten laws and rules you should abide by if you want to live in peace. Some landlords do not take it kindly with tenants who try to outshine them and can do everything to put such tenants in their places and let them know who owns...