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The Kaduna State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has adjourned sitting on Monday after counsel adopted their final written addresses and replies to points of law. Justice Ibrahim M. Bako, Chairman of the three-member... Read more via Pulse Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2z6okbs Get...

A former minister of aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has reacted a statement by Vice president Yemi Osinbajo urging members of the opposition party to come join the.... Read more via Information Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2ZiUO0I Get More Nigeria Political News

Controversial Nigerian entertainer, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, better known as Charly Boy has weighed in on Ekweremadu’s attack by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Germany.... Read more via Information Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Hd1PWK Get More Nigeria Political News

Twitter is being criticized for running promoted tweets by China’s largest state news agency that paint pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong as violent, even though the rallies, including one that drew an estimated.... Read more via TechCrunch – https://ift.tt/2ZbtptF Get more World News

An unidentified young woman was found dead in front of Grace Tower Church in Makurdi , the Benue state capital in the early hours of Monday, August 19. It was gathered that she was brutally raped to death.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2ZczYAl Get More Nigeria Metro News

One of Akasha's sons Baktash was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, for involvement in drug trafficking. Baktash was handed the sentence by presiding judge Victor Marrero, who also ordered him to pay... Read more via AllAfrica News – https://ift.tt/2Z0PlN2 Get more World News

Cape Town/Hanoi - According to the Gift of the Givers, organ traffickers may be behind the disappearance of two South African teachers in Vietnam.... Read more via IOL News – https://ift.tt/2L8eI5R Get more World News

The US economy appears poised to enter a recession in two years, a new survey of business economists found. In the survey by the National Association for Business Economics, out Monday, 72% of economists predicted that a recession would occur by the... Read more via Business Insider –...

Similarities in the cases of two missing South Africans living and working in Vietnam have revealed a pattern that indicates a possibility that organ harvesting was involved, according to Gift of the.... Read more via News24 News – https://ift.tt/2P2kXNt Get more World News

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party PDP for being vicariously responsible for the attack on a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB in Germany.... Read more via Vanguard News –...

Opera-backed OPay formally launched OBus, a bus hailing service, in Lagos last Saturday. This is coming barely a week after the introduction of OTrike in Aba. In its plan to become a multi-service commercial internet platform... Read more via Techpoint.Africa – https://ift.tt/2ZcyUbB Get...

Figures from past editions of Techpoint’s Nigerian Startup Funding Reports have shown that more foreign venture capitalists are participating in the Nigerian startup space than their local counterparts.... Read more via Techpoint.Africa – https://ift.tt/2TQPsVC Get more: Nigeria Business News

GUARANTY Trust Bank (GTB) Plc will be distributing N8.83 billion as interim cash dividends to shareholders after pre-tax profit rose to N115.79 billion in the first half of this year.... Read more via Naijabizcom – https://ift.tt/2zedekB Get more: Nigeria Business News

Tech companies in Nairobi have a new competitor in town and it’s Nigeria’s Bluechip Technologies. Establishing an office in the East African country means Bluechip Technologies is now present in four African countries.... Read more via Nairametrics – https://ift.tt/2P2YdNy Get more: Nigeria...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will likely assign portfolios to ministers this week. Among the most anticipated appointments will be the office of the Minister of Finance. ... Read more via Nairametrics – https://ift.tt/30eswBS Get more: Nigeria Business News

If you’re an intelligent observant (or not), you are fully aware that the Nigerian music industry is difficult to break into. The barriers are endless. Although the game is slowly changing and upcoming and.... Read more via Notjustok – https://ift.tt/2Z17wlL Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Wizkid is one of the most popular artists out of Nigeria, thanks to collaborations with the likes of Beyoncé and Drake. So, it comes as no surprise that he has made history as the first African artist to reach 8 million monthly listeners on the music streaming giant, Spotify.... Read more via...

Actress Ronke Odusanya recently welcomed a newborn child. The lady shared a post in which she talked about the joy of being a new mother – What is more, the baby daddy of the actress has been unveiled and.... Read more via Legit Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2Z2juLF Get more Nigeria...

Seven Big Brother Naija, BBNaija housemates, have been selected for possible eviction this week. The housemates were nominated after an arena game challenge between two groups, the Icons and Cruistopia.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2PdNnEC Get more Nigeria...

Burna Boy has been having a great month. Burna Boy has been having a great month and that has been capped by an endorsement of his music by legendary singer and Grammy award winner, Elton John.... Read more via Nigerian Entertainment Today – https://ift.tt/2NdpOsR Get more Nigeria...