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Following the alleged brutal killing of one Khadijat by her own boyfriend, her father, a deputy governor, has granted an interview on the matter. Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2L7GSzT Get More Nigeria Metro News

More than 10 persons have been feared dead and property worth millions of naira destroyed on Friday night, as flood wreaked havoc in some parts of Abeokuta, Ogun state capital. The downpour, which started around 4pm. and stopped by 9pm, caused river channels in the capital city to overflow …...

Until PDP change its ways of impunity, it will not win elections again. Same impunity that happened in Anambra will repeat itself in Ekiti (Fayose will want to impose a successor) and they will lose the election then turn around to blame APC. Read more via Nairaland –...

EFON APC 5,026 PDP 5, 111 OYE APC 14, 995 PDP 11, 271 ILEJEMEJE 4,153 3,937 IREPODUN/ IFELODUN APC 13,869 PDP 11, 456 Moba APC 11, 837 PDP 8,520 IJERO APC 14,192 PDP 11,077 GBONYIN APC 11,498 PDP 8,027 EMURE APC 7,048 PDP 7,121 IKERE APC 11,515 PDP … Read more via Thisdaylive...

Dr Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to be declared winner of the state gubernatorial election after reportedly polling 197,459 votes as against his closest rival, Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party who had … Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking...

Qua Iboe Power Plant Limited (QIPPL), the promoter of the Qua Iboe Power Plant has signed a community partnership agreement (CPA) with project impacted communities in Akwa Ibom State. Execution of the agreement is a strategic move by QIPPL to proactively establish a positive relationship with...

Global investment in solar power projects fell 19 per cent in the first half of 2018 from $71.6 billion in the same period last year owing to cutbacks in China and lower equipment costs, trends that are expected to further strengthen in … Read more via Leadership Newspaper –...

Athletics Federation of Nigeria yesterday released the list of 100 athletes that will represent Nigeria at the 21st Africa Athletics Championships, billed for August 1-5 in Asaba, Delta State... read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2KYhEVd Get More Nigeria Sports News

Akwa Ibom State government, has dismissed reports in the media that payment due the West African Examination Council for indigenous candidates who sat for the May/June 2018 examinations, has not been made. Speaking with newsmen in Uyo, yesterday, the state commissioner for Information and...

THEIR story is pitiable but, as devout Christians, they must have forgiven their abductors knowing that what they went through was the cross they had to carry in their Christian journey. Two Catholic nuns, Apo Perpetual … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2NSMCvZ Get More...

The issues we take to God are sometimes urgent to us. That’s precisely why we want God to respond now. If the problem weren’t serious (at least from our perspective), we wouldn’t be so impatient..... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2JlleTz Get More Nigeria Metro News

Contrary to forecasts in the build up to Ekiti State governorship election, voters, yesterday, trooped out to elect a new governor, in an election adjudged to be largely violence, hitch-free. That notwithstanding, the exercise was characterised by rejection of many voters, … Read more via...

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Prof. Abdulganiy Raji, on Saturday, confirmed the disruption of the governorship election in some areas of the state. Raji, who addressed journalists at the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ado-Ekiti...

Children as young as 12 are watching video tutorials on YouTube showing them how to take deadly class A drugs. In the latest horrifying web trend, drug users are filming so-called “trip reports” which show them openly getting high on illegal substances. The shock films on the social media …...

A short film, Sweet Revenge, directed by a Canadian/Nigeria film director, Pascal Atuma has made the 10 final shortlisted films for the Just for Laugh Festival in North America. The final winner is expected to emerge through an online popularity vote for the 10 shortlisted films. The film...

The issue of sexual harassment in the Nigerian film industry otherwise known as Nollywood is a subject of controversy that has over the years rocked that sector of the entertainment industry.... via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2NOOWEd Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

I saw it in its dour state, void of grandeur. And last week, I saw it in its new splendour, full of radiance. The Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State now wears a new look, a befitting status for a man we call Skippo. Keshi … read more via – The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2LbcnZS Get...

Benue State has been in the eye of the storm since the beginning of the year following the New Year’s Day murder of over 73 persons in Guma and Logo local government areas (LGAs) of the state by suspected militant herdsmen.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2NPKrJn Get More...

The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saturday threatened to defect if the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) eventually handed over the chapter to the reformed All Progressives Congress(rAPC) as being speculated. The state’s former PDP Chairman, Alhaji Kunle Sulyman...

It is no longer news that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kaduna State has lost members and party chieftains who helped in the emergence of the party at both the state and national levels in 2015 elections.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2LebLm2 Get More...