naija news today 120918

China’s Anta Sports Products has offered to pay $5.5 billion for the firm that makes the Wilson tennis racquets used by Serena Williams, it said in a statement Wednesday... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2p0e2EL Get more: Nigeria Business News

The United States (U.S.) Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington has attributed poor social infrastructure development in Nigeria to the weak system of tax collection in the Country. Symington made this known on Tuesday, while speaking at the.... Read more via Sahara Reporters –...

Remember the caricature of Serena throwing a tantrum at the US Open that infuriated people online on Monday, 10 September 2018? Well, it’s happened again. An Australian newspaper defiantly republished a controversial cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams on its front-page … Read more via The...

Liberia President and former World Footballer of the Year George Weah made a surprise return to international competition in Monrovia on Tuesday, playing in a 2-1 loss to Nigeria.... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2OcdUx1 Get More Nigeria Sports News

Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita says it will take time to justify the £52 million ($63 million) fee the club paid for the Guinea international. The 23-year-old — who is expected to start this.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2x8XyOf Get More Nigeria Sports News

Bordeaux winger Samuel Kalu has said it was a huge motivation to play on the same pitch with one-time World Footballer of the Year George Weah..... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2CNmqBk Get More Nigeria Sports News

Leroy Sane is “mature enough” to become a key player for Germany following his omission from the World Cup squad, teammate Thomas Muller has said. Manchester City winger Sane was left out by coach Joachim Low... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2NDdsL9 Get More Nigeria Sports News

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong has mourn his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Emmanuel Nanle who passed away Monday evening in an Indian hospital where he was receiving treatment.... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2xcGnfN Get More Nigeria Metro News

ANGERED by the failure of the Edo State Government to meet its demands, the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, has said that it will commence an indefinite strike on Friday.... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MpBULk Get More Nigeria Metro News

Following the new wave of attacks being launched on troop’s bases by Boko Haram in a bid to retake Nigerian territories, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Buratai has relocated the Operational headquarters of Army Headquarters to.... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper –...

Owakurudu community in the Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State is becoming deserted due to a gully that is eating into the community.... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2x5zaxa Get More Nigeria Metro News

Ahead of the September 14, sit-at-home order of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to mark the alleged killing of its members during 2017 Army Operation ‘PYTHON DANCE II’, all the security agencies in Enugu State, on Wednesday, commenced a joint training to..... Read more via TODAY.NG –...

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research unit of The Economist Magazine, has predicted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the upcoming 2019 presidential election. READ MORE HERE

Restructuring seems to be the most attractive lingo for opposition candidates and their supporters as the 2019 general elections approaches. To those in PDP, restructuring has become the magic wand they want to wield to land power back to their lascivious laps.... Read more via P.M.EXPRESS –...

The Senate has told the President to respect the provision of the Electoral Act that pegs the maximum donation to a political campaign at N1m. The upper chamber of the National Assembly also... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2N4agZo Get More Nigeria Political News

On the orders of the Deji of Akure, Ogunlade Aladetoyinbo, all markets, shops and other businesses in Akure, the Ondo State capital, would be closed throughout Wednesday..... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MnoQ92 Get More Nigeria Political News

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has revealed that he is not at ‘war’ with Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar of Bauchi State.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2x5xJig Get More Nigeria Political News

President Vladimir Putin suggested Wednesday Russia and Japan sign a peace deal “without any preconditions” by the end of the year, a historic proposal to try to solve a territorial dispute after decades of deadlock..... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2CMpayG Get more...

Russian authorities have identified the two people suspected by London of poisoning Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2x2ShIG Get more World News

A judge, Nnamdi Dimgba, in Abuja has rejected an appeal by Multichoice Nigeria against an interim order prohibiting any increase in its DStv or GOtv subscription rates.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2NAOhc9 Get more: Nigeria Business News