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Lebron James was the star of the show as the Los Angeles Lakers beat reigning NBA champions Golden State Warriors 123-113 in a preseason game played on Thursday, October 11 in Las Vegas. The preseason game masterpiece was a showdown between … read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s entertainment...

Super Eagles forward Ahmed Musa, defender Kenneth Omeruo and Nigeria U20 Women captain Rasheedat Ajibade will do battle for this year’s prestigious Nigeria Footballer of the Year award. Organisers of the award explained the male and female footballer of the year award were collapsed into one...

As much as 11 people suffered varying degrees of burns from a gas explosion that occurred at Rosy Restaurant on Wednesday in Area 11 axis of Abuja. A pregnant woman, who simply identified herself as Ajayi who works at the restaurant, said that they were all going about their … Read more via...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that Nigeria loses $6.1 billion of its earning to violence against children. The international agency said the money lost by Nigeria to violence against children accounts to 1.07% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).... Read...

Delta State government said it is hosting this year’s All Nigeria Editors’ Conference, the flagship annual conference organised by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) because it believes that the Nigerian media is a critical stakeholder in the nation’s effort to advance the cause of democracy...

Many have been left in total shock as a young woman reportedly ran mad in broad daylight, a display that is said to be the consequences of her messing around with another woman’s husband. ‎A lady identified as Chinomso Ohaeri‎, took to social media to share some photos and … Read more via...

One of the aspirants in the just-concluded presidential primaries of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former chairman of the caretaker committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has promised to join force with the party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to return Nigeria to … Read more via...

The outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has posited that the four month salary arrears of workers would have been paid but for seizure of some allocations to the state by the federal government. He told the workers to collect their … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar is visiting his erstwhile principal, President Olusegun Obasanjo today very reliable sources disclosed last night.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2C6F7Oe Get More Nigeria Political News

This time, the ruling party said the lawmaker lost out on his bid to contest for presidency next year because even members of his party were fed up with his style of leadership.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2QFADCn Get More Nigeria Political News

Senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce, has called for Presidential debate among candidates ahead of the 2019 elections..... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2pKPkbS Get More Nigeria Political News

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has vowed that the federal lawmakers will resist any attempt to continue to frustrate the enactment of the Electoral Act Amendment bill, particularly the use of card readers for 2019 elections. Describing … Read more via Thisdaylive...

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo has called on the people of the Niger Delta to shun unnecessary criticisms and work for the success of the Amnesty Programmes. Dokubo said this yesterday … Read more via Vanguard News –...

Federal government is to commence payment of entitlement worth N22.6billion to all former staff of the defunct national carrier, Nigeria Airways, from Monday next week.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2NzzN8f Get More Nigeria Metro News

A murder suspect, Mr. Peter Nielsen, yesterday, told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that it was his father-in-law, Mr. Christopher Madaki, that killed his wife, Zainab Nielsen, and their three and half years old daughter, Petra.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2yva9fs Get...

The Ebonyi State Government has approved the granting of soft loans to operators of unregistered schools in the State to enable them fulfill their registration requirements.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2C5GEUZ Get More Nigeria Metro News

The belief that Nigerian politics was not only meant for the menfolk spurred Professor Remi Sonaiya to join the presidential race in 2015 under the auspices of KOWA Party. … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2NAmzZ5 Get More Nigeria Metro News

United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, has rejected plans by the Federal Government to privatise Ajaokuta Steel Company, Kogi State, urging it to complete the company for national development.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2pL9DG6 Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Senate, yesterday, approved a total sum of N189,207,544,893 for the conduct of the 2019 general election expenditure as proposed by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in supplementary budget. Senate … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2IOMhrH Get More Nigeria...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were on collision course yesterday as the ruling party rejected the electoral body and rejected its disqualification from participation in the 2019 general elections in Zamfara State.... Read more via...