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The Sultan of Sokoto and President General Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Sa’ad Abubakar, has expressed worry that Nigerians has become more divided politically ahead of the next general elections in 2023. He made his fears known during the weekend ay the 2019 General...

HOSPITALIZED, former Nigeria skipper and coach, Christian Chukwu has said that he was being well taken care of by both the Enugu state government, friends, admirers, family and well wishers.... Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2UPt2Hf Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Akwa Ibom government has attributed the high rate of HIV/AIDS in the state to the influx of visitors. The Nigerian HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) shows that Akwa Ibom has the highest prevalence rate of HIV in the country. About 5.5 per cent of the … Read more via Premium...

Marcel Amadi is the husband to late Dr Maria Amadi, the Deputy Director, School of Post Basic Psychiatric Nursing, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, who was murdered in front of her House on March 212019. Mr. Amadi recalls the problems her wife encountered in her work place … Read...

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has sealed up some fuel stations in Abeokuta metropolis for hoarding, creating artificial scarcity and under dispensing of products. Leading the exercise in Abeokuta, the state capital, the head of operations in the Ogun office of the Department of...

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested seven members of a notorious kidnapping gang who masterminded the January 12, 2017, killing of a United States Army veteran, Chuks Okebata in Okigwe area of Imo State. ..... Read more via...

An unkind fate recently visited 67-year-old Mrs Olufunke Odebiyi, whose only son, Kolade Johnson, had life snuffed out of him, by a bullet from the riffle of one Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan, who was attached to the Anti-Crime Unit of the Lagos State Police Command...... Read more via Vanguard...

The Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) on Saturday commended South Africa’s Gauteng Province for initiating a Social Cohesion Programme to end discrimination and xenophobia in the province.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – http://bit.ly/2P8clkY Get more World News

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 750 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday, ahead of a key review on the severity of the epidemic. WHO’s latest toll for the outbreak declared in eastern DRC last August came … Read more via...

Donald Glover has dropped his highly anticipated film with Rihanna during a Coachella performance by his rap alter ego Childish Gambino that could be one of his last.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – http://bit.ly/2UiKBem Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

The Ekpan Development Committee, EDC, in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum...

TEARS flowed freely yesterday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State as the remains of the Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) Seidougha Taribi, were committed to mother earth. Taribi was also a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor … Read...

Manchester United needed two Paul Pogba penalties to stay in contention for a top-four Premier League finish by beating West Ham 2-1, while Tottenham moved up to third thanks.... Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2ZbWQwL Get More Nigeria Sports News

No fewer than seven persons have been feared death Saturday as cultists struck in different parts of the state. It was reported that four persons were killed and beheaded in Omuoko, Aluu Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. … Read more via Vanguard News –...

No fewer than 11 people have been confirmed dead, with several others injured after a tanker exploded along the Gombe Biu bypass. The Head of the Accident and Emergency Unit of the State specialist hospital in Gombe confirmed this on grounds of anonymity. Channels Television gathered that …...

Chizemdere Ezuma, a self-acclaimed reverend arrested for sodomising and infecting Shedrack, a 16-year-old boy, with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has caused a stir in police custody after making sexual advances at a male suspect with whom he was kept in a cell at the Lagos State Police...

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has chided the management of the University of Ibadan (UI) for rusticating Ojo Aderemi, a 300-level undergraduate of the department of History and the last known President of the Students Union Government of the university. A statement...

Two Presidents and one new term later the beautiful books are still conspicuously missing from the shelve. The other day I watched the books of the lean General use sophisticated … Read more via Sahara Reporters – http://bit.ly/2IhrW0S Get More Nigeria Metro News

A suspect is being held in custody after Amiens captain Prince Gouano complained of suffering racial abuse during Friday’s Ligue 1 game at Dijon.... Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2UG5RQs Get more World News

‘Multiple’ victims in Australia shooting: Police A shooting in the Australian city of Melbourne early Sunday has left “multiple” victims, police said. “Investigators believe multiple people were shot outside a nightclub near Little Chapel Street and Malvern Road about 3:20 am,” the … Read...