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The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) yesterday urged Ndigbo to disregard the claim by the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB that South East governors had resolved to donate lands for the Ruga policy, describing it as a big joke. In a statement … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria...

West African Examinations Council (WAEC) yesterday officially confirmed that Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq sat its secondary school leaving examination in 1976 at the Government College Kaduna. The council also confirmed that he sat for the exams using Razaq A.R. as contained in...

As African Union member Countries celebrated 3rd African Anti-corruption Day yesterday, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, has declared that President … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/30E4Gj1 Get More Nigeria...

Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said that it has been difficult for the commission to repatriate stolen funds and assets in safe havens abroad. This is even as he said the agency was fighting powerful forces in the country. The … Read...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to diligently implement key recommendations of the 2014 National Conference report to solve the numerous problems rocking the country. Jonathan, who spoke at the launching and presentation of the...

A director with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Felix Bob-Nabena, has been discharged by a Federal High Court in Lagos of wrongdoing on the charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).... Read more via Thisdaylive...

Three persons, including a pregnant woman, have been killed by flood that swept through some parts of Zinariya community in Jos. The flood, which resulted from days of downpour, also brought nine houses down.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/30yMZkv Get More Nigeria...

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos has ordered that a 27-year-old man, Emeka Okechukwu, be remanded in prison for allegedly stabbing his neighbour, Kazeem Balogun, to death..... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2YPUZNB Get More Nigeria Metro News

Remember Elon Musk’s “Not a Flamethrower” from last year? Pablo Escobar’s brother Roberto recently launched his own eerily similar product, a device he said looks almost identical because Musk stole the idea from him and then beat him to market... Read more via Digital Trends –...

Over the past two days, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has told members of both chambers of Congress that he has “many serious concerns” about Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency..... Read more via Wired – https://ift.tt/2XCJzjX Get more World News

In 1952, The Saturday Evening Post christened Rockdale, Texas, “The Town Where It Rains Money.” An estimated 100 million tons of lignite coal lay buried a few miles south of the.... Read more via Wired – https://ift.tt/2YMeo28 Get more World News

President Barack Obama granted Danielle Metz clemency in 2016. Out of prison, she made the dean’s list in college. She wished she could thank Obama for his help.... Read more via USA Today – https://ift.tt/2XH3Swq Get more World News

United States President, Donald Trump, has approved the massive arrest of Nigerians and citizens of other countries who are illegally living in the country, beginning from.... Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/2xGaBY3 Get more World News

Three ponmo factories have been sealed off by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for endangering lives by using chemicals for embalming corpses for preservation. The factories, which specialise in importation of cow hides popularly known as “ponmo”, into...

Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank plc has been named the Best Bank in Africa 2019 by Euromoney at its annual Awards for Excellence, which held in London on Wednesday, at the London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2LOMsXU Get...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) may have dismissed reports suggesting that a new Petrol (Premium Motor Spirit) pump price is on the way, but recent developments indicate that a new price regime appears imminent. The NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division...

Provider of a rapidly growing mobile payment service and consumer platform, OPay has raised $50 million in total funding. The lead investors included IDG Capital, Sequoia China, Source Code Capital, Meituan-Dianping, GSR Ventures and Opera..... Read more via IT News Africa news alert –...

It is a bad news item that foreign airlines are again raising safety concerns about our airports after a long period of perceived stability in the sensitive industry. The foreign airline operators are apparently concerned because outstanding issues of decrepit infrastructure … Read more via...

The crew caught up with fast rising actor and seasoned musician #AyoolaAyolola … via NdaniTV – Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Exclusive Getty U.S. soccer star Allie Long‘s L.A. hotel room was broken into … and her wedding ring, cash and her honorary key to NYC were stolen … via TMZ.com – https://ift.tt/32m8F5k Get more Nigeria Entertainment News